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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT i LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH FORWARD MARCH MEANS UNITY tltnf) latior . LAKE CITY. UTAH, JUNE 4, 19 3 7. A MEMBER OF THE Established 1929 By LEN DE CAUX (Continued from page 1) dustries in Utah are ready to organize and apply for affiliation with the C. I. 0. John M. Ross, president of district 22, United Mine Workers of America, was called Tuesday to the headquarters at Cheyenne, Wyoming, for a conference on organization activities. James Morgan, international board member of the U. M. W. of A., is working in Butte and other points in Montana this week with full authority from the C. I. 0. to form central councils, state and A paradox of the present great forward movement of labor is that unity and union growth are the reresults ri what outsiders -peated CM see only as disunity and division. Union after union is turning to matter March 28, 1930, at the post office Entered as second-clas- s the Committee for Industrial Orat Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ganization, now that it has finally accepted the logic of its new po... $1.50 per annum Subscription sition as the main body of AmeriAdvertising rates by request. can labor and has begun to issue charters. Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, In many cases the new affiliates 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. have recently broken away from the American Federation of Labor local. Published weekly at 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Adds Many New Members or have been thrown out of that Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. The International Union of Mine, declining body. Mill and Smelter Workers, a C. I. This is division, of course, for Publisher M. I. THOMPSON. 0. affiliate, added several hundred which the A. F. of L. leaders are .... Office Manager L. M. THOMPSON new members into its local unions responsible due to their refusal to in Salt Lake county, reported permit industrial organization in- Eldred M. Royle, district No. 2 side the federation. secretary-treasure- r, and Glenn GilBut it is a division which results lespie, international board member. in multiplication of union member(Continued from Page 1) Rousing meetings were held at And the workers concerned Midvale, ship. Mur Magna, Bingham, the wealthiest most and Re productive are more conscious of the newpeople to do was to elect the land on the face of the globe. Just found publican candidate. possibilities of industrial not exist as an industrial union not what that something is we are unwith facts, We are dealing and unity organization in the C. I. within the A. F. of L. with fancies, when we cay that the able to say since we are powerless 0. than they are of any division. That C. I. 0. affiliation brings issues as stated, were fully and to unveil the future. Nevertheless For actually they are escaping we to live more to see unity than division was imfrom a much more serious division fairly submitted to the electorate; the hope when long enough to the day Republican poverty cold, stark, when they cast their lot with the mediately demonstrated by the and what it did rehideous and and be poverty, that under- C. I. 0. They are throwing off the electric response of the New York painfully long party will transport workers. In aa election membered by Republcan partisans. miner and destroyer of the best shackles of craft juris- on a in is there the race human shall the Interborough Rapid Tranbe to appear therefore, It would, dictions which have long held them be banished We from sit a few days after, the employes to this land. mistake for anyone to attempt back from a united forward march. of welcome voted to when almost unanimously for the the hope the day meaning It may be remembered that it dodge or obscure heart-wear- y shall women Workers union, giving the wretched, Transport the overwhelming majority was not until the C. I. O. acted in Presidents policies received in the cease to walk floors behind closed dependently in the steel industry, it 10.688 votes out of a total of doors, wondering how and where breaking 11,585. 1936 election. from the dead-han- d shall be able to find food for control ofaway they Rules A. L. officials of F. Escape From Inactivity craft Majority their underfed or starving children. that a united and union A form desire for action and organiUnder our representative Those days and the days when of steel workers powerful was was zation actually rules, the given as the chief reaof government majority youth, strong and ambitious, the son why some 14 local unions, pre and in the preservation of this days when proud gray heads bowed jrought into being. form of government it is highly in deep humiliation and grief as Similarly, transport workers, re viouslv affiliated with an A. F. of important that the voice of the ma- they recall happier days all, all tail employes, and other groups L. union, decided to join up with which have recently established C. the C. I. 0. as the United Retail jority be respected. marching along public highways votes for, The congress speaks, in quest of what? The primitive 1. 0. international unions, have Employes of America. Their letter to the C. I. 0. debund their membership leap up and represents the American peo- right of man to earn and eat. Those ward clares that they did so because of soon internaas as occurred and break the national in all ple days simply must be banished with the A. F. of L. their with the bureaucratic look disgust tional affairs; and the voters in from ths They n land. And the orward to conand such told and election dictatorship corruption in the the November growth unity man who finds that something F. of as but was never the (A. L.) under that international, and the possible they which will annihilate those country gress division and dictatorship imposed more particularly with its utter want NEW DEAL policies put into will find more than a pot of days gold upon them in the federation. paralysis and inactivity in face of effect, and they spoke in the tell at the end of his rainbow. heard clear be to ing, loud enough Seeking Freedom To Organize the organizational opportunities it. They charge the world. around the (Senator King The latest four unions to become confronting old international with hindering of Utah please read the above parON THE WAY affiliated with the C. I. 0. as in- and the orSenator We are sure that virtually sabotaging agraph. ternationals are the. Transport affiliatof efforts its ganizational King, in common with every other Workers Union' of America, the ed (The Brewery Worker) locals. reactionary, heard what the people Federation of Fords chief complaint against Architects, EngiThe letter declares that these said.) unionism is that it establishes a neers, Chemists and Technicians, local whose membership of student unions, It takes no profound the National Leather Workers Asmonopoly of labor. 7000 rose from to 15,000 after they events to note the vast but peaceWe that as long as sociation, and the United Retail broke are determined to rid ful change that has taken place in Ford issuppose away, of America. n citizen Employes themselves utterly and finally of In this country during the last few can vote himself aanyjobgood cases all reason the chief for in one of years. It is folly for any man, be Fords plants at any time the idea joining the C. I. 0. h&s been the the debilitating influence of the he a United States senator or a strikes him.. desire to organize the unorganized A. F. of L. leadership and to take close to his to establish a powerful united their places in the great forward and eyes private citizen, in industries in which the march of American labor. to the fact that we are living in a union, Watch Henry Ford He is the A. F. L. has failed to organize of new age, an age in which the next man to say yes. or has insisted on craft division masses, and not what they have and resolutions sent designated as the classes, are desteel companies to The letters JUST RECEIVED Independent the C. I. 0. to explain the rea termined to try out policies which, threaten to shut down their plants sons as they see it, will give them a rather than A large shipment of UNION such unions have taken sign agreements "with this why constitute better chance in life. an step, amazing MADE Suits, Hats and Shoes the union. , Banish Poverty We heard that one before and i though by no means a new indictAll sensible persons will admit never worked. They love their ment of A. F. of L. policies. The resolution adopted by the that something must be done to profits too well. 59 East 2nd South Workers when they deTransport conditions in this, change existing cided to break with the machinists" The auto w o r ke r s complain union of the A. F. of L. and affilagainst Ford can be said to be the iate with the C. I. 0., points out AMERICAN LINEN last roundup. that organization of New York SUPPLY COMPANY subway and elevated workers met The Heckler is Heckled with little success until undertaker, A British politician was inter- on an Cleanliness First! Cleanliness industrial basis. Then it Last! Boost, Build and Suprupted by a man in the crowd, who goes on: Use Amerport your State. repeatedly shouted, Liar! Various craft unions of the A. ican continuous towels and After about the twentieth repe- F. of L., which more than 10 all kinds of linens they furtition, the speaker paused and ix years have done for nothing absolutely nish. Support industries that ed his eye on his tormentor. toward these workers, organizing support you. If the gentleman who persists are now making- - jurisdictional in interrupting, he said, will be claims 33 East 6th South over various sections of the Was. 2484-8- 5 good enough to tell us his name, workers organized by the Transinstead of merely shouting out his IT PAYS TO KEEP Workers union. port profession, I am sure we shall all CLEAN William Green, president of the be pleased to make his acquaint A. F. of L., has evinced his tradiance. tional disregard of the best interests of the rank and file bv demanding of the Transport Workers union that it forthwith surren der a large and important section of its membership to one of the aforementioned craft unions. with a new The resolution declares that the T. W. U. has found that it can tfmu This paper receives Union News Service, a C. I. O. affiliate. SUPREME COURT. out-mod- ed ray and Garfield during this week. Additional meetings are slated for the coming week. The district headquarters at 404 Reason building have been swamped with membership applications, and inquiries from those who desire to join the fast growing union. r ypographical Union Salt Lake Typographical union No. 115, at its regular meeting Sunday, authorized Iresident J. F. Rhodes and Secretary J. M. Melvin to continue organizing activities for the printers union. A long list of applications for membership in the union was read at the meeting. These applicants from commercial shops. came Some of these shops have now a 100 per cent union membership. It is expected that the I. T. U. will give amnesty for the period of the organization campaign, and will arrange so that Mr. Rhodes and Mr. Melvin can devote more time for organization work, not alone in Salt Lake City, but in other cities throughout the state. At the rate the membership of the Salt Lake Typographical union is growing it is expected the membership will be more than doubled within the next few months. It appears that all printers are clamoring for membership in the typographical union. It is a very good sign. OF L. COUNCIL PASSES THE BUCK A. F. When it comes to passing the buck the members of the A. F. of L. executive council are entitled to the title of ace. True to form the recent Cincinnati conference left all the dirty work to be done, to the state federations and city central bodies. The executive council recommended, and the international union approved that all local (Continued on page 3) pie-cardis- ts. God-give- mimmi THE BEST BUY IN CALIFORNIA WINS L f AlCOHOl 1' non-unio- ; ROSENBLUMS SAVE MONEY SUPER-DUT- Y with the K FRIGID AIRE METER-MISE- R. Perfectly Pasteurized Free Demonstration Grade A Your old ice box will serve as part down payment. . FreshWilkforParticalarPeopIc ESOYILES Buttermilk churned fresh daily. - Delicious Cottage Cheese. Order Today Xr -J- UJ EASY PAYMENT PLAN z SUPERIOR DAIRY Hy. 3280 1865 So. State (xunamiDtomn rtirrrr |