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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. JUNE Vigilantes, Force and Civil War (Continued from Page 1) to carry out the Presidents wish to increase the membership of the supreme court, or on any basis of compromis REVOLUTIONARY ise. . . IF CONGRESS SHOULD ACCEDE TO THIS PLAN, MORE THAN A MILLION MEN ARE READY TO START MARCHING, and this million will be quickly augmented by millions of others. mothers of WPA workers, who have been pleading for a relief ap propriation sufficient to give them the insecure hold on life of a WPA wage. Progressive legislators bat tied for an appropriation that would prevent several hundred thousand WPA workers being put back on the dole, but the reaction ary forces won. What would have happened if they had threatened violence and disorder? 18. 1937. Eyewitness Account of Attack by Chicago Police on Republic Steel Picket Line CHICAGO (AWF) I attended the Republic Steel mass meeting Sunday, May 30, and I was in the front rank of the parade to open the picket line through the cordon of police. I didnt get a scratch. How I escaped is beyond me just Irish luck. The meeting voted to make the march and we were instructed to fall in behind the American flags I fell in and we started across the prairie. As we approached the police poured out of the plant, about 300 strong, and formed a line across the road. At one time the parade broke up and spread all over the prairie, whereupon the police spread too. We stopped and reformed and then proceeded. When we arrived at the police line, there was no one to speak officially to the police captain. Everyone was yelling at the top of his voice, including the police captain who ordered us to disperse. Then the fun began gas bombs revolvers bursting, firing, police clubs swinging. Workers Unarmed Motion pictures and stills show that the workers were unarmed and were attacked by the police. Most of the wounded were shot from behind while running away, rifles and possibly machine guns firing from the roof of the company plant. Police dragged wounded out of hospitals and took them to jail. They refused to let physicians into jails to treat the was all over. The steel situation was very tense. The cops as usual were I smacking picketers around. They even blocked off the public high-- 1 I way and refused to let the public Steel walk past the Republic plant. The plant is on a remote prairie out here and there is nothing but vacant land for blocks around it in all directions. I have available 100 feet of film of the attack. In addition I have Federation of Labor and affiliate with the United Electrical and Radio Workers. C. I. 0. union. Results of the referendum vote of the membership on the question of joining the U. E. & It. VV. was announced by President James B, Carey and Secretary - Treasurer juiiU3 Empspack, after a confer ence with James Matles, machin ists union representative, The 14 lodges are in New York, ew Jersey, Connecticut and east ern Pennsylvania. A referendum membership of the machin ists union in the West and Midwest j3 ais0 being taken on the same other films of other police attacks Radical elements organizing on unions in this town and vicinity. under the banner of the Committee The photographer has offered to for Industrial Organization are Economic Highlights permit me to use them for any this spirit. revolutionary furthering purpose I suggest. The Republic Steel is the only PITTSBURGH (UNS) Optical Federal, state, county, and muni- Happenings That Affect the Dinner al- a that fight, up workers Tax put company Checks Dividend and cipal governments, together with organized in A. F. of L. Pails, Nasome of bur courts, have bowed Bills of Every Individual though I have heard rumors of federal unions decided to cast their trouble in Indiana Harbor. I was 0f with the Committee for Indus-i- n down to the will of the MOB and tional and International Probthe Harbor the night the strike trial Organization at the conven-starte- d lems Inseparable from Local their acts of violence. . . CIVIL but everything was peace- - tjon 0f the National Council of WAR is a terrible thing to contemWelfare. to The films I have should Optical Technicians & Workers of then. ful plate. . . But now is the timeeleof value to labor America, enormous be As subversive you read this, conferences are put a curb on the here. this in held London for The convention adopted a resoare groups ments that being which, though responsible REVOLUwill save not headlines make and lution turmoil they unrest, pointing out that the A. F. TIONARY LEGISLATION. . . The in economic periodicals, may vitalof L. had not given the necessary assistance to organize the industry supreme court has before it the ly effect world industry. Further, very important decision as to the- these conferences may mark the I Jane Withers, star of the current the big factories in constitutionality of the Social Se- - eventual successor failure of one Prtan film, Angels Holiday, takes the n and curity law. If the majority opin- of the most optical industry, as well as the time to act as a standard bearer should rule against the law, do portant innovations of the Roose-no- t workers, should be orprescription in the nation-wid- e campaign for ganized. be misled into thinking that velt administration: The recipro-suc- h safety. action is your cue to put over cal tariff, conceived and adminis-th- e The resolution pointed to the orIn an attractive poster prepared tered by the man who is first in Presidents plan. ganizing successes of the C. I. O. in by the Aetna Life Insurance com- industries "It only took one thousand key-- 1 I rank in the cabinet and is also where the A. F. of L. pany and affiliated companies had failed and declared that the of the first, according to most commenta-Russia- n men to effect the over-throJane warns children Always Be government, the Vigilantes I tors, in ability and public esteem-h- ave Careful At Home-- At t5!,'.UDi7 X! Il.y-.- nd many times that number of I Secretary of State Hull. on Streets. the been has deadline As the magazine Life recently wounded men. . . The . . in schools, , Displayed jof reached, and UNLESS SUCH I said in a caption to a brief pic- They arrested the orgamzaprogressive the and theater lobbies, f.res?,ve. COMPLETELY torial history of the secretary and the president of the Chicago grounds, PLANS ARE ABANDONED, the Vigilantes will his department, Cordell Hull be- - Church Federation also a preach-TAK- E poster is attracting, the attention App,y fM Amliation APPROPRIATE ACTION lieves in foreign trade as much as er, the Rev. M. Fiske and held of thousands of school was therefore resolved that It to preserve the freedom of Ameri-- 1 possible with as few restrictions as him incommunicado 17 hours for throughout the country. the A. F. of L. federal unions ca. possible. His tools are reciprocal the offense of taking pictures. They here assembed in this convention The story circulated by Ambas- trade agreements. finally returned him his camera LABOR ON ITS of the National Council of Optical sador William E. Dodd relative to Theoretically, a reciprocal trade minus the films, and Workers of AmerFORWARD MARCH! Technicians a billionaire who wished to set up agreement is a relatively simple Police refused to allow a tourni-thinsever their connection herewith ica, Two or more nations get- quet to be applied to a man shot a Dictatorship in America is not Federation of American the with without some foundation. . . Con-- 1 together, discuss their desires in in the leg; he bled to death. Other I (Continued from page 3) affiliation and Labor for apply gress has not far to look for the the matter of imports and exports, wounded were taken by the police I called their pronouncements laugh- - wjtb the Committee for Industrial With all their threats to Organization as local industrial unaspiring party. Possibly Mr. Dodd Nation A, for example, is a major from the far south side to a west I able. wished to create a more favorable I producer of heavy machinery for side hospital, the Bridewell, a jail I start a counter-organizin- g cam- - jons 0f the C. I. 0. I Presi-which the towards A. j F. wishes it a one over drive and find an opinion public single Nine locals are affected by the foreign outlet, hospital passing paign, try dents plan for governmental re-- 1 Nation Bs leading asset is dairy up many intervening hospitals. I of L. textile organizer in the field, break-awa- y from the A. F. of L. The T. W. O. C. has organization which is tantamount II produce, of which there is an in- - Some of the deaths were due to po-- 1 he said. to a Dictatorship. ternal surplus. So a deal is reach- - lice treatment after the slaughter I 500. led whereby Nation A reduces or -What Would Happen? About I I t! And thats that! Crack-poeliminates its tariffs on farm pro- - assistants have been working I brought under I you say. Yes, it is. But it is a duce and Nation B does the same steadily and quietly to effect an I when agreements were signed with serious thing that your Chief thing for heavy machinery. Man- - agreement between the United I the Atlanta Worsted Mills of At- Executive and your chosen repre- - ufacture booms in Nation A, and Kingdom and the United States. I lanta, Ga.; Fort Schuyler Knitting sentatives are constantly subject- - Agriculture prospers in Nation B, This is the treaty that is now be- - Mills of Utica, N. Y.; Monument 375 SOUTH 2ND WEST ed to threats of civil war, force, j due to the new foreign consump-- 1 ing discussed in London. Mills, Housatonic, Mass., and New violence and disorder, and millions tion. should the be consummat- Company, New In practice, of course, recipro-- 1 ed, one of its treaty immediate ef-- if of men ready to start marching, major they do not cringe and crawl at cal tariffs are extremely difficult fects will be to open a tremendous redocuments to frame. snarling commands of viciously of Conflicting British market for Wholesale and interests must be appeased, sec- - American .agriculture. products ef- actionary pressure groups. Ultimate What would happen if the Farm- - tional jealousies smoothed over, po- - fect, it is hoped, will be to smooth Retail Meats ers Union, the CIO, the Farm Holi-- I litical problems solved. The job the way for reaching similar agree- NEW YORK (UNS) Fourteen Phone day Association, the Veterans of calls for the utmost in doggedness, ments with other major European lodges of the International Asso- 4840 4841 WASATCH J Machinists with more perseverance and patience qualiIndustry, and the And this in the view of ciatin were to start bombarding congress ties possessed in large measure, powers. I states in four Mr Hull would aiso mean a long than 15,000 members and the President with threats of along with the equally vital quali- have voted to leave the American forward in ihP world of force, violence, civil war, and mil- - ty of a burning sincerity, by Secre- Good be lions of men ready to start march- - tary Hull. fiSt reasonably reul So far, reciprocal treaties have Lond?n cojrfemncUeean in ing if certain legislation in which BEST WISHES TO LABOR th counvries wdi3rsiTfvdouM I a considerable are ely rp. h.j- Mr. Farle'y, J. Edgar Hoov- - South American republics. One im- it take etinews is ;re-alaeiy er, and the Department of Justice portant treaty is that reached with to snap into action if the lower one France, which has resulted in an u glven, Ht untl. decisions have MURRAY, UTAH ?eacbed weighed, revalued third of our population, who live in upsurge in trade between the tri- jn anc It is the hope of everlasting security, are underfed, color and the stars and stripes. out conference .te insufficiently clad and sheltered, Most important treaty, also most contribution! a ' iaJor were to write and send through the discussed, ;ome is that reached with u Best Wishes to Labor Fathers Day, June 20 prospFlty anc mail, threats to overthrow the gov- - Canada. This treaty is important ?Vwernatl?n.a international am- ernment if their God given right not only because Canada is a bor- BUY NOW AND SAVE that happens, an ir to eat their bread in the sweat of dering nation and one of our best Jal1kty- We are out of the high rent district; own our own building; buy brow were not immediately foreign customers it is vital be- - Xei?,nf ssee counblT lawyer, Cordell in car lots for our different stores and take advantage of all cash bulk will the deserve name, by cause Canada is a main link in the made possible by Federal Law? sucdiscounts. Open an Account or a task chain IHgantic of the British Empire. cJe,, Recently there has been a group Not everyone thinks the Cana- - cessu y completed, EVERYTHING TO FURNISH THE HOME of about fifty pale, careworn, shabby women wandering about dian treaty wise. Pacific North- . GRANITE Furniture Co. ne sure better times is the corridors of the Senate and west lumbermen, for instance, House of Representatives office fought it aggressively, as did increased purchasing of goods in 1050 E. 21st South, Sugarhouse Park City Murray classification, Pure luxury and buildings in a daze of bewilder- - American dairy interests ment. They are wives, sisters, or liquor producers the treaty re- - Eusmess Week says that estimates duced our tariff bars, to a varying 0:? 1937 retail jewelry sales run as 29 per as $375,000,000 extent, on Canadian timber, dairy cent above BEST WISHES TO LABOR quar-treat- y last First year. But the products, and whisky. n ter of imports mainly Canaincreased gems, our greatly Friedrich Floating Aid Meat Display Cases, Sanitary Cylinder market for industrial prod- - meads, came to $14,507,000, which Type Scales, Steiner Meat Chopper and Coffee Mills. ucts, notably machinery, and the is double the total for the same! Cube Steak Machines American Slicers best economist think it was a good period in 1936. Business is still doing well, and deal for all concerned. C. E. MOORE AGENCY Ever since then, Mr. Hull and his is holding to the high production levels reached last winter and Inter mountain Sales Agent and spring by most lines. Steel is The Season Is Here for 239 South State Wasatch 3255 operating at more than 90 per cent of capacity. April construction in 37 states came to more than and less of it was governCrystal Sparkling Water ment building than formerly. BEST WISHES TO UTAH LABOR PEPTOMIST SOUR Motors are running very close to GINGER ALE peak production. LIME RICKEY Labor troubles are still a big fly FATHERS DAY, JUNE 20 4 in the ointment in some industries, Call However, there has been less E. E. KELLER, OPT. D. trouble than was expected princiDenhalter Bottling Go. pally because managements have Practice Limited to Optometry figured it more profitable to aci 235 E. 5th So. DEALER cept union demands than to take 535 So. Main Was. 1414 Was. 1013 71 South Main Wasatch 4395 a chance on having to cease produc-- 1 tion in a period of heavy buying. I far-reachi- ng im-io- w I Ut 1 I I .- son-in-la- w g. - I , 1 1 I share-croppe- Palace Market rs S. hs fc Tort First National Dank r ex-the- sn ! dia-dia- 3 Duces $108,-000,00- 0, |