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Show . i r UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. SEPTEMBER 10. 1937. RED HERRING AND OTHER POOR FISH , By I.EN'.DE CAUX and domesticated husbands, after generations of thought, have failed to think up a satisfactory o answer to the old trick Have question, you stopped beatYet the C. I. 0. wife?" your ing is expected to produce such an answer to thousands of questions couched in similar terms, after little more than a year of existMild item of the New Deal program. in the American common-sens- e elections of 1936 overwhelmingly vindicated the preference of the progressives for sticking to the real issues and letting the Liberty-Leaguego fry their own red herring. American working Similarly people today are well aware that ence. collective bargaining and the deIt may be unsporting and against fense and extension of democracy all the rules of parlor games for a are the real issues raised by the henpecked husband to answer, I C. I. 0. nevei: did beat her." But lets see By joining C. I. 0. unions in inthe answers the C. I. O. might give creasing hundreds of thousands, if it jumped the traces on such they demonstrate their preference questioners and assumed they were for higher wages, shorter hours interested in the, facts. and greater economic security Why dont you dump your through organizations formed to Communist leaders? is a favorite express their democratic will and poser. This is a demand which the their contempt for the slimy trickC. I. 0., with the best will in the sters who offer them the stench of world, would find it impossible to rotten red herring as a substitute. meet, since it has never had a Communist leadership to dump. LABOR ON ITS Furthermore, men like Lewis, FORWARD MARCH Hillman, Howard, Dubinsky and the rest of the C. I. 0. leaders obstinately refuse to become Com(Continued from page 6) munists for the purpose of being packing plants employing 1300 dumped and so satisfying their workers. The plants involved, the questioners. Danahy, Dold and Klink comWhy seek to overthrow Ameri- panies, have been on strike since can democracy is another honey, July 21. to which the C. I. 0. can only murThe United Butchers and Meat mur in reply, WThy, indeed. The C. I. O. local industrial C. I. O. happens to have been Packers, claims to have more than union, formed for the express purpose of a majority of the workers on its safeguarding and extending Am- side. Picketing will continue at erican democracy. the gates pending the outWorking people have more good comeplant the vote. of reasons than anyone else to fight The board ruled that all emfor such democratic rights as they ployes on the payroll a week bepossess and to demand more of fore the strike, with the excepthem. Union are among the most tion of office help, salesmen and democratic forms of organization be eligible to would supervisors, yet devised. By bringing millions vote. Hugh Thompson, C. I. 0. reof unorganized into unions, the gional director, has petitioned for C. I. 0. is not only extending dean amendment to the ruling to mocracy into industry but is build- permit 40 workers of the Danah'y ing the strongest possible bulwark who were on the for the defense of American de- packing plant1 but were dismissed payroll July mocracy generally. shortly afterward for union activFor Sale False Trails to vote in the election. If you arent reds, why dont ity,The board announced that it is one to which the would take the amendment under you C. I. 0. might answer, Because we consideration. werent born yesterday. The tactic is so ancient and C. I. O. TO SPEED obvious that it is insulting to ex- ORGANIZATION pect such an experienced leadership as that of the C. I. 0. to fall for it. James Morgan, C. I. 0. regional Every forward step in the his- director for Utah and - Wyoming, tory of social progress has been reported on his return to Salt Lake greeted with charges similar to City, Wednesday that the C. I. 0. those now hurled against the C. I. will forward more rapidly with 0. Every trade union leader who its go plans for organizing Utah has lifted a finger for the better- workers. ment of labor, every active unionMr. Morgan has been in Wyoist, has at one time or another ming in the interest of the C. J. O. been dubbed an agitator, Bolshevik and spoke at the Labor Day celeor whatever else happened to be bration in Superior, Wyo., a coal the favorite epithet of the time. center. Even the most swivelchair-boun- d He reported that the first lumparagon of A. F. of L. inertia can bermens union to be formed under look back to moments of activity the C. I. O. banner in this region when he too earned such accusa- was organized at DuBois, with a tions. membership of 115 lumberjacks. is It will affiliate with the InternaThe tactic of the designed to divert attention from tional Woodworkers union, which the real issue. When reaction was chartered in the northwest undangles this ancient and smelly fish der the C. I. 0. six weeks ago. across the trail of progress, it has Mr. Morgan said, Our organino interest in the fish as such. It zation work will be primarily only hopes the forces of progress among unorganized groups and will follow a false trail to their those that rightfully belong in the C. I. 0. such as steel workers. own undoing. Yes-or-N- rs red-bai- t? red-herri- ng red-herri- ng Its All Of A Pattern anti-NePROVO ICE WORKERS In the TO ORGANIZE MEET Deal campaign of 1936, the pattern anti-Rooseve- lt, w was set for the present campaign against the C. I. 0. Exactly the same panjorum of lies and insinuations is now being rehashed for a similar purpose. forces were The in the interested not mythical Communist menace which they created for election purposes. They merely set a trap with which they hoped to catch Roosevelt coming or going. If he refused to follow the trail, they could allege. he is a red! But if see Ah, you he had fallen for the smelly bait, they woud have had him still more where they wanted him. Once a progressive movement fights a defensive battle along a trail, there is no limit to which reaction will not seek to push it. Had the New Dealers retreated along this trail of dissension and death, they could only have finally satisfied the redherring-dangler- s by dumping all their leaders, including the President himself, divesting themselves of all their following, and foregoing every anti-Roosev- red-baiti- ng red-herri- ng elt supervision of the National Labor Relations Board. The elections are scheduled to be held in the Wood and Ayer Mills at Lawrence, Mass., employing about 10,000 workers. The American Woolen Company has waived a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board and will interpose no objection to the election. Elections are expected to follow in the other mills of the company. The American Woolen Company accounts for about 20 per cent of the woolen and worsted industry, with 27 mills located principally in New England, and employing about 28,000 workers. Sidney Hillman, T, W. 0. C. chairman, after a series of conferences with representatives of the American Woolen. Company, said that he expects the workers will choose the T, W. 0. C. as their sole bargaining agency and thereby lead to an agreement with the American Woolen Company. LEWIS ADDRESS NEXT WEEK The Utah Labor News will publish next week in full the address of John L. Lewis over the nationwide radio hookup on Friday, September 3. The title of the address is Labor and the Nation. Be sure to read the address and decide for yourself as to the twisting of Lewis address by the Know daily press news services. the facts. The Utah Labor News deals in facts, thats why we will print this address. . C. I. O. UNION WINS BRIDGEPORT BRASS WITH 1556 VOTES BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (UNS) Workers of the Bridgeport Brass company responded to an unprecedented campaign of and vilification against the Committee for Industrial Organization by voting 1556 to 1112 for the C. I. 0. Brass Workers union, an affiliate of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Thousands of copies of anti-I. O. leaflets and circulars were given out during the week of the election, among them a pamphlet issued by the Constitutional Educational League, attacking the leaders of the C. I. O. Union officials say that William vice president of R.. Webster, Bridgeport Brass and chairman of the board, is a Liberty Leaguer n and one of the leading Associaof the National figures tion of Manufacturers. Will Speed Up Campaign Local No. 320, Brass Workers' union, which won the election over an' independent union in new form, backed by the company, has pledged to carry out a program that will include a campaign for higher wages, better conditions in the shop, and job security. It will oppose discrimination against Negro workers, and will stand for equal pay for wTomeij doing the same work as men. The campaign to organize the rest of the metal shops in Bridgeport and other Connecticut towns will be carried on with increased speed, backed by the victory at the Bridgeport Brass company. There are thousands of brass workers in the Naugatuck Valley, brass center of the world, which extends from Bridgeport to the north through Ansonia, Naugatuck, Waterbury, Torrington, and Winsted. red-baiti- C. anti-unio- . - The ice and refrigeration work- GARY C. I. O. ers of Provo and Utah county held COUNCIL SET UP a meeting in Provo Wednesday to organize a local union and apply GARY, Ind. (UNS) for a direct charter from the C. I. ng The newly-forme- d 0. County Industrial Council at its first meeting, held recently, elected Cleo Owens, of Gary, as president. Jesse Reese, an employe of the Yungstown Sheet & Tube company, was chosen vice president, and John Sargent, Inland Steel employe, was elected financial secretary.-- C. I. 0. Among the speakers at the meeting were James Morgan', regional C.'I. 0. director for Utah; Frank Bonacci and Ray Maki, C. I. 0. organizers; V. L. Jones, S. W. 0. C. representative, and F. M. Savage, vice president United Ice and Refrigeration union vNo. 410, C. I. 0., of Salt Lake City. AMERICAN WOOLEN CO. AGREES TO ELECTION FOR 10,000 WORKERS NEW YORK (UNS) On the heels of agreements between the Textile Workers Organizing Committee and silk manufacturers covering more than 45,000 out of a total of 58,000 workers in the industry, following a strike, comes the announcement of elections to be held in American Woolen Company mills, under the two-wree- ks POLITICAL OUTLOOK (Continued from page 5) of the Utah State Federation of Labor, is a candidate for nomination for city commissioner in the October city primaries. His sponsors (Beck and Peterson) made claims that their candidate is a member of the Democratic party. If this candidate is a Democrat it is news to the Democrats. Judging by his past political activities he could be called a republicrat. Your observer has before him a sample ballot circulated during the 1936 campaign. This ballot was sponsored by the Salt Lake Federation of Labor and urged its affiliated members to vote accordMr. ing to the sample ballot. Crose was president of the Salt Lake Federation at the time. According to the scratches in the sample ballot we should judge that the biggest part of him (Crose) is an elephant, and. the lesser portion a jackass. To be exact there were 21 scratches in the Democratic column on the state, judiciary, legislative, county and city judge candidates. While in the Republican column for these same offices there were only 20 scratches. Democrats Scratched The Democrats who were scratched were: Henry II. Blood, governor; E. E. Monson, secretary of state; John W. Guy, state auditor; Charles II. Skidmore, state superintendent of public instruction. P. C. Evans, Oscar W. McConkie, James W. McKinney, judges of the Third district court; Calvin W. Rawlings, Third district attorney. Wendell Grover, Lawrence E. Nelson, state senators; A. J. Ab-let-t, W. Douglas Allen, Sheldon R. Brewster, Dr. L. F. Hummer, Wehrli D. Pack, Alton B. Poulson, C. J. Stringham, Edward II. Watson, Gordon Weggeland, George Winder, state representatives. J. R. Rawlins, county commissioner; Harold E. Wallace, county attorney. M. J. Bronson, A. II. Ellett, B. P. Leverich, city judges. Republican Scratches In the Republican column the sample ballot scratched the followtary-treasur- er Page made a speech seconding the nomination of W, W. Seegmiller, the unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for governor. One Man Revolution Following the G. 0. P. state convention, Mr. Crose went to Democratic county convention on Saturday, September 12, and engineered n a revolution against County Attorney Harold E. Wallace. He had the name of George A. Faust placed for nomination in opposition to Mr. Wallace for Crose himself county attorney. took the mike and seconded Fausts nomination. The one man revolution did not get to first base, however, when the balloting got under way. Mr. Wallace piled up an almost unanimous vote of the delegates. Only a scattering of votes were cast for one-ma- Croses candidate. As to the reported C. I. 0. support for candidate Crose, the C. I. 0. leaders and members are wondering who are the C. I. O.s supcandidate. porting this hand-picke- d The leaders do not know anything about it. One C. I. 0. leader said that the C. I. 0. believes in supporting labor candidates, but the candidates must be the choice of representative labor organizations d and not by a few relabor politicians. actionary hand-picke- S. II. LYNCH ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY Stephen II. Lynch, former Salt Lake county treasurer, has announced himself as candidate for city auditor. He is a Democrat. Previously announced candidates for city auditor are Jerrold P. Beesley and J. Waldo Parry, both Democrats. I. H. Goggin, incumbent city commissioner, has announced that he will seek reelection. Mr. Goggin is a liberal Republican. Other candidates for city commissioner posts are Lawrence A. Johnson and S. D. Huffaker, coalition Democrat candidates. Keep on Growing Jilson claims to have caught a trout. I didnt know trout grew Why, as large as that. They do after you've told the a few times. Boston Transtory ing: Byron D. Anderson, attorney script. general; A. Edsel Christensen, state treasurer; James M. Carlson, This New Lawrence A. Miner, L. B. Wight, Investigate Low-Co- st district court judges; Martin 0. Life Benefit Ashton, Norman L. Sims, state senators; Julius C.. Billeter, Mrs. Plan; Pays up to 1000 Vera T. Callister. Kaspar J. Fet-ze- r, Without medical examination, a Frank J. Folland,Wa3ter J. Michelsen, Miss Edith , Nielson, new life benefit certificate is now Peter K. Wells, Estel L. Wright, offered to men, women and chilDilworth S. Woolley, state repre- dren from l.to 65 years of age. sentatives; Royal C. Barnes, coun- This certificate provides up to for natural or accidental Arm- $1000 ty commissioner; Frank or total and permanent disD. Richard death, E. strong, ORourke, ability, as specified, based on age. Sorenson, city judges. Benefits are free from restrictions Mr. Crose attended the Republican state convention last year and as to residence, travel or change of occupation, available on individual or 'group People plans. woolen textiles what the United the are state taking throughout' States Steel Corporation is to of this economical, low advantage steel. And is the key to organiza- cost For complete details, tion of the woolen and wdrsted in- send plan. a or letter giving postcard . dustry. name in full, date of birth, your Some 9000 workers are embeneficiarys name and relationployed in the Wood mill, the larg- ship. No obligation. Write to est single textile unit in the world. Mutual Protective (an The Ayer mill has about 2000 em- assessment benefitAssociation, association) ployes. The Textile Workers Or7 Continental Bank Bldg., ganizing Committee, C. I. 0. P. 0. Box 274, Salt Lake City, union, has substantial majorities in Utah. Send today for full inforboth plants. mation. (Adv.) 14-pou- nd , 626-62- ROCKY MOUNTAIN ROOFING COMPANY Licensed Roofing Contractor Authorized Application Company for Richardson Products ROOF REPAIRING FLAT ROOFS OUR SPECIALTY Wm. II. Robinson, Mgr. Friend of Labor 812 West 14th North Phone Was. 2489 BEST WISHES TO LABOR NATIONAL HOUSE CLEANING CO. SINCE 1893 PAINTERS AND DECORATORS RESPONSIBILITY SKILL INTEGRITY 56 Post Office Place Phone Was. 4256 TEXTILE UNION CALLS WOOLEN CO. KEY TO ORGANIZATION BOSTON (UNS) The Ameriwhich has can Woolen company, agreed to a labor board election at its Wood and Ayer mills in Lawrence, has 27 plants throughout northeastern states, te New and mostly in employs around England, workers altogether. 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