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Show Page UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT 4 C. I. LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEPTEMBER 24, 193 Labor Gains New Laws In a Number of States 0. (Continued from Page 1) nations on the same theory You must learn the truth now before it is too late. According to the survey by the division of labor standards The C. I. 0. in Minnesota Let me tell you the truth, as I of the United States Department of Labor, progress in raising know it in my own district, the state labor standards in 1937 spells increasing opportunity and eighth Congressional district of responsibilities in state labor law administration. Minnesota. The C. I. 0. came up Here is part of the record: there to the iron-or- e range and the Pennsylvania passed 30 new labor laws on hours, wages, lumber camps, the old feudal do I bar main of the steel and lumber safety, workmens compensation, industrial homework, and in cm3. Minesota workers answered Its week for women has been Jugja relations. the call. They are organized; they cj,anfi,e(j 44 hours for both men I t0 7 ; are winning a better life. Isut there I ftn(j womon employments under the scope of bloodhas been no violence and no the Acts; but Florida excluded cer worth Carolina set a new hisrh shed In Minnesota since the C. I. surpassinff ,08t of the northem tain employments. A number of O came. Why? states in its hours and child labor others extended the medical and ad- Because the farmer-Labo- r hospital provisions, standards ministration of my state will not - Occupational Diseases CarolSouth Carolina North and tolerate violence, because Mn- - ina adopted a ic.year minimum Lrfve gtates-pelew- are, Indiana, M nesota s governor, Llmer A. Ben- - j aire i i c and a h n, g 1 Pennsylvania, jimt for industrial employ-son, made or Benson Know, woraers . year- -a minimum wage . passthis District of Columbia that compen ong Patience, their respect for ,aw and women both. for mn law. And he knows the terrorists vtate r abor sate for some or all occupational of big business, the lawbreakers . diseases. who try to repeal by gunfire and QnJ A new Pennsylvania law also force the Wagner Act they could provides a special state fund to not repeal in the courts. There is the administration bandies the accrued liability" of law and order in Minnesota. Be- proMeni in silicosis. Instead of & cause Governor Benson defends the burden on the injured , aw!a under state A, depart- - Placin or the legal rights of workers to or- his dependents through worjer curtailed ganize, to bargain collectively, to benefits, as some greatly b? duty and poweto guns, boss thugs, boss vigilante at- 54-ho- ur -- 1 LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MAIICI (Continued from Fage 1) Bill Green for the C. 1. 0., am therefore warned affiliated locals to refrain from sending delegates and thus save being subjects o humiliation in the hands of a min ority labor group of Utah. According to the financial re ports and receipts of pef capita tax to the federation the Brigham per City convention represents six cent of the organized labor movement of Utah. It does not speak for the powerful C. I. 0., nor for the big four transportation broth- was also noted that about per cent of the local unions chartered in Utah by international unions affiliated with It erhoods. 85 the A. F. of L. are not affiliated with the Utah State Federation of Labor. Evidently the local Utah do unions in not approve of the reac proftionary political machine andfederathe of fered dictatorship tion leadership. Double I)ue The convention adopted a resolution raising the per capita from 5 cents to 10 cents per month per member from the affiliated unions. It was said that the increased revenue was needed to carry on the federation and because or the necessity of compensating the federation for revenues lost through discontinuance of per capita tax payments by the C. I. 0. unions. In former years it has been customary to refer any financial assessments to the referendum vote of the affiliated unions. Not so with the present regime of the The convention just federation. a adopts resolution, and the affiliated unions can either take it or leave it, as they wish. (lrior to 1931 the per capita tax was 2 cents per month. The 1931 convention proposed to raise it to 5 cents, but the heads of the federation at that time said they would not invoke the increased per capita tax unless it was referred to local unions for approval. Accordingly, the convention amended tne resolution, empowering the executive board to refer the matter to affiliated unions. A referendum vote was taken and the majority of the affiliated unions approved the new per capita tax.) Slams Green metropolitan area are in strfking degree dependent upon its large import and export trade. Insofar as the trade agreements program is in reestablishing succeeding, and expanding foreign trade, he said, it is increasing employment and raising the standards of living for workers in Chicago and in the country as a whole. He continued that the Federa tions intelligent and enlightened Discussing William Greens attitude is all the more comrlnsition nerfod relfthtenrlndYnsrepre orders to unseat C. I. 0. unions mendable in view of the wide. to enforce record-keepin- g and Larg Who brings violence into labor spread attempts by special inter- brought a lively discussion. f Further legislation to compen ests disputes? Not the workers. Look frondiUonfn the state. Delegate? Fred Farris of Salt to convince American labor condltluf at Minnesota. Our unorganized sate for occpational diseases is that it is benefited by the exces- Lake Motion Picture Operators basic industries forecast by provisions for investl- - sive tariff protectionism which in union said: mining and I rolecting nages If we had been men states enacted laws Igations this would steel, marine and packing are I Twenty-tw- o we have seven answered Bill states in year fact has served to restrain trade joining the C. I. 0. Our small m- - I relating to time and medium of Arkansas, Idaho, Maine, Massa- - and reduce employment. He fur- Greens ultimatum in a different dustrial towns are growing into wage payment and settling wage chusetts, Montana, New Hamp- - ther praised the Federation for way. We would have wired back ' and I claims. union towns. Our white-collshire, and Oregon, recognizing the importance to la- something like this Nuts, we New Mexico, New York, I Unemployment professional people are joining!I Illinois, inter- wpnt kick the C. I. 0. delegates of an bor unions. Agricultural and cannery and Utah authorized their labor I Compensation out because we like them. change of goods between workers are going C. I. 0. The I commissioners to accept assign- All states and the District of Delegate H. A. Terrell of Salt powerful railroad unions give their II ments of wage claims and to col- - Columbia have now passed unem-suppo- rt We Lake Barbers union said: to the new movement. Our lect for claimants through suit in ployment compensation laws. In AIRCRAFT WORKERS VOTE elimito were bunch a of cowards farmers stand shoulder to shoulder I the civil courts. Such a law is most of them payment of unem-wit- h FOUR-TO-ONnate those loyal men who have FOR C. I. O. two-thircity workers. Our middle now in force in 11 states. benefits begins after ployment of tht revenue class, fighting against high prices, I Enforcement of provisions gov- - January 1, 1939. to I am the state federation. a LOS ANGELES (UNS) By About half of these laws are to vote of high taxes, and high utility rates, erning pay days and payment of we ashamed that in the workers obeyed Bill I workers discharged, turns to the unions for help. quitting, strlk- - be administered under the State command. Greens After Co. chose the Aviation all, what Northrop The people of Minnesota are not I lnS or locked out was definitely Labor departments, does he He out do. come WorkAutomobile C. United I. 0. might afraid of the big, bad C. I. 0. wolf. I placed in the labor department State Labor finest a for the barat lere collective their union day, ers as stop I I this year in Illinois, New Mexico, Relations Acts They know who is responsible for I gaining agency in a Labor Board lotels, dine with the capitalists violence. Not workers. Not unions. South Carolina, and Utah. This I State labor relations acts election. The company attempted and, in the evening, condescend to people know, because I means new possibilities of enforc- - elled after the Federal act were to stop the election say a few words to the common there has been no bloodshed in I mg' those legally recognized rights passed in Massachusetts, New unsuccessfully an working men in a hall hired by with injunction. Minnesota. There has been no I of labor. York, Pennsylvania, Utah, and them. the that union is The I Shorter TIours demanding violence since the Farmer-labo- r Wisconsin. Each of these laws Greens telegram was read to one at to I negotiate I company agree Ohio now has an administration told the bosses, u day and creates a board of commission he indelegates by Federation First on a contract granting wage cant get away with murder for other than manufac- - powered to prevent unfair labor creases Vice President R. H. Fuller of Og-- ( condand other improved I here. as defined in the act, and turing establishments. practices Continued on Page 5) called. be will a I Whose Violence? Illinois has passed a law limiting to determine what organization itions, or strike I No; it isnt the workers of the working hours for women to 8 a shall represent the employees in I unions that bring violence to a I day and 48 a week. collective bargaining, I C. Ten other states Arizona, Cali- community. Most of the great I. O. organization drive of the past I fomia, Kansas, Nevada, New Mex- Pennsylvanias nev year and a half has been accom--1 I ico, New York, Oregon, Utah, tion law drastically plished peacefully, without strikes. Washington, and Wyoming and power of the state courts to "issue In the textile industry more than the District of Columbia also injunctions in labor disputes 140,000 workers have won ,benefits have an Another Pennsylvania law limits day and l the deputizing of sheriffs and pro- through union contracts since the week in some occupations. The Utah Labor News invites all friends of Democracy to Two states Colorado and Mon- - hibits C. I. 0. drive in textiles began. The or corpora-backbon- e private persons unite in support of President Roosevelt and Democracy. This is . of the C. I. 0. the Unit-- 1 tana have an with no I tions from remunerating them, day I ed Mine Workers, the Amalgamat- - I weekly limit. absolutely necessary in order to win the battle of the ages for the Conciliation Interna-1 Three ed Clothing Workers, the states Massachusetts, and Arbitration people. This paper will do its part. Will you do yours ? tional Ladies Garment Workers North Carolina, and Rhode Island Connecticut, New York PennsyL now have a have been unionized for years, and 48- - vania, South Carolina, and Wiscon-The- y day have a long record of collec- - hour week. North Carolina law sin have strengthened and extend-tiv- e bargaining, of contracts made also limited mens working hours ed the conciliation and arbritra-i- n tion services of the. department of good faith and faithfully kept, to 10 a day and 55 a week. Even in steel the great strong-- 1 Connecticut has 9 and 48 hours labor, hold of antiunion policy 510,000 for manufacturing and 8 and 48 steel workers were organized by I for mercantile establishments, peaceful means. Three hundred I New Hampshire now has a 10-a- ... 5-c- no ar ever-increasi- ng con-;ribut- E ds four-to-on- e, mod-Minneso- ta 8-h- em-Yo- 45-hou- rs Anti-Injuncti- 8-h- 48-ho- Tile Utah Labor News Is Dedicated to Democracy ur ur qr 1 nd seventy-fiv- e companies, in- - hour day and 48-ho- ur week. I Vermont has passed a CHICAGO Secretary of State eluding the powerful United States I Cordell Steel corporation, have signed con-- 1 day and week. Hull recently commended Minimum Wages tracts with the C. I. 0. the Chicago Federation of Labor Three states Arizona, New through its president, John Fltz-ranOnly Tom Girdler and the ty- of Little Steel defy the York, and Pennsylvania have Patrick, for recognizing the wide law. Tom Girdler will bargain for fixing minimum I implications of a liberal trade nol- provided with Tom Girdler. Tom Girdler wages for women by minimum icy in the maintenance and prowill represent himself, and Tom wage boards. Oklahoma, with a motion of peaceful relations with Girdler will choose a dummy to similar type of law, extends the foreign countries. This followed represent the steel workers. Or he minimum wage to men also. These the adoption of a resolution by four states now make a total of 20 that body which congratulated the wont play ball. What would you do if you were states and the District of Colum-again- st Secretary of State on the extenTom Girdler? The C. I. 0. bia with the minimum wage board sion of the Reciprocal Trade used its last legal remedies the I type of law. Agreements Act and thanked him Four states Colorado, Connect-i- t for his distinguished leadership in rights to strike and to picket. But wasnt strikes and pickets that icut, Massachusetts, and Wiscon-broug- furthering reciprocal trade agreeviolence to the steel their existing ments. minimum wage laws. towns. The Chicago Federation of LaNevada passed a flat rate min-aut- bor resolution stated that AmeriCompare what happened in with what happened in steel, imum wage combined with an can high tariffs during the postThe General Motors strike, in spite hours law for women. war era had established a preceIndustrial dent for upbuilding of trade baron Homework (Continued page 7) Four states Illinois, Massachu- riers on a world-wid- e scale and Texas-pa- ssed the and setts, in Pennsylvania present change policy conOPEN FORUM industrial homework laws. stitutes the most realistic contriWorkmens Compensation bution which the United States could states Youth at the Cross Roads will Many possibly make toward interreport progress. The weekly minimum or maxi- - national economic disarmament. be the subject for discussion at the Open Forum on Sunday, Septem-- 1 mum amount of compensation or It endorsed the equitable treatber 26, at 8 p. m., City and Coun- - the per cent of the wage was in-t- y ment of all nations who refrain building. G. A. Goats, LL.D., creased in Georgia, New Hamp-wi- ll from trade discrimination against be the principal speaker. shire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsyl- us, as provided in the most favored nation clause of the Trade vania, and South Carolina. South Carolina reduced the wait-hear- d Agreements Act. d man who has A that the hairs of our heads ing period from seven to three Secretary Hull, in commending the Federation for its action, are numbered, wants to know if days. Several states limited attorneys pointed out that the many ecothere is not some place where he fees. Others brought additional nomic activities of the Chicago can get the back numbers. 50-ho- ur ts Next Week . . . 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