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Show r UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEPTEMBER 24, 1937. Page 6 LAItOIl ON ITS FORWARD MARCH SAFETY AND HEALTH The present world record is man hours worked without an accident. To equal it, a plant employing 100 men 40 hours a week for 50 weeks each year would have to work 55 years without an accident. The International business Machines corporation, acW. F. cording to its recworld a new for is out Titu3, ord with 4,500,000 hours without on accident now to its credit. Records like this dont just happen! They come when management and workers care about safety and cooperate to achieve it. 11,-000,0- 00 vice-preside- A Record In operations outside regular working hours, or at the end of shifts. Water blasts are released simultaneously with powder blasts. All drilling is conducted wet; men working at the face are provided with air line respirators; scraper and gravity loading is carried on throughout, and routine atmosphere sampling is conducted periodically to insure efficiency of sampling methods. Medical Research For Automobile Worker The United Automobile Work- ers union has established a medical research institute in Michigan to assist workers in accident and occupational disease cases. Since the new state occupational disease law provides for reference of disputed questions of fact to a medical board of three members, the medical research institute expects to provide technical medical testimony and expert legal advice for the afflicted worker. Government Construction' The Federal government recently set a record of 4200 tons of steel erected in less than CO days without one serious accident! The Apex Building on which this record was made will house the Federal Trade commission. Construction was under the direction of the supervisory architect of the Treasury department. The government construction engineer in charge attributed this safety record to: (1) The steel contracts inclusion COMMON SENSE of applicable provisions from the AND TIIE C. I. O. Associated General Contractors Manual for Accident Prevention; By Len I)e Caux (2) the steel contractors desire to and favorable The (3) weekly popular response promote safety; inspection of all operations to to the recent nationwide broadcast check compliance with safety pro- by John L. Lewis, C. I. O. leader, d visions and immediate correction indicates that a lot of fooled have been of accident hazards. propagandists native too much There is Accident again. Prevention horse sense running loose in this More than 11,000 workers lives country for these city slickers to saved in California and about corral. . It is one thing to paint a lurid personal injuries to workers prevented since 1014! This is picture of the imaginary horrors the estimate of the California De- of the C. I. O. for an audience of partment of Industrial Relations rich ladies who enjoy spinal on the effect of the accident pre- shjvers, or for tired coupon-clippewho hire others to think for vention work by employers, emdivicommissions and But it is quite another matthe them. ployes, sion of industrial accidents and ter to sell the same picture to close to four million working peosafety. The commission began accident ple who have won higher wages prevention in a small way in 1914. and more security through the C. That year there were G91 indus- 1. O. The C. I. O. has become too real trial deaths in a population of one death from industrial a movement in the direct experiaccident for every 4100 people in ence of too many people to be the state. In 193G there were 563 blown down by all the huffing and deaths from industrial'' accident; puffing of anti-labpropaganbut population in the state had in- dists. It has become part of the creased to 6,800,000. The same rate lives not only of the millions who applied to the present population are its members, but of millions would have yielded 1660 deaths more who are their families and from industrial accidents in 1936. friends and the people who do busiDeaths Per ness with them. Million Tons Again, any farmer who thinks Of Coal for himself will find it hard to picin coal mining ture the C. I. O. as an enemy when Accident dropped tq' three deaths annually he knows that higher wages won per million tons of coal produced, by the C. I. O. have been accomfrom an 'average of five fatalities panied by increased income for per million tons per year a quarter himself. Nor need he wonder long of a .dentury ago. During the what are the interests seeking to there were divide him from labor when he period, 1907-19167 major coal mine disasters In considers government statistics the United States, causing 2249 showing that last year payrolls indeaths. In the 4 years, creased 3.17 per cent and farm inthere were 12 major disasters, come 11 per cent, while net profits causing 101 deaths. A few of our of large corporations increased 90 coal mines have operated 2 or more per cent. years without a single lost-tim- e Independent accident. Editors Dust Research While much of the corporation-controlle- d The Air Hygiene Foundation of big city press tunes its America has recently extended its comment on the C. I. O. to suit its research activities to industrial dis- owners rather than its readers,' in ease resulting from dusts and some of the smaller cities and fumes. This program of medical country districts there is evidence and engineeing research, according of alertness and independence in to H. B. Meller, managing director the handling of this leading issue. of the foundation, is to include: The Waukesha County Tribune (1) Determination of the causes in Wisconsin, for instance, finds in and prevention of diseases from the advances of the C. I. O. news dusts and other air pollution; of interest and benefit to both its (2) methods of safeguarding work- town and country readers. ers health; (3) reduction of silica Bob reports business good in dust hazards; (4) further study of Eau Claire, it says in a story chest roentgenology; and (5) re- about a former local boy now emducing of pneumonia rate in smoky ployed at the Gillette Rubber Co. in Eau Claire. He said that the atmospheres. The program contemplates coop- C. I. O. came in there a few erative studies with the Saranac months ago and began organizing Laboratory, the Harvard School of and that he was only getting $18 PtSblic Health, the University of a week. He said that the workers began Pennsylvania Hospital, the Singer Memorial Laboratory, the Mellon to join the C. I. O. and that out of Institute for Industrial Research, 3,800 employes the C. I. O. now and the U. S. Bureau of Mines. has 3,300 members and that now Silicosis instead of $18 a week, he is receivAmong Iron ing $35 all due to the C. I. O. Ore Miners which was responsible for the At the annual meeting of the great change. Konicide club, a club of doctors and The paper features news of C. engineers interested in the preven- I. O. meetings in Waukesha and tion of industrial dust disease, a tells of what it can do to raise report was made upon silicosis prevailing low wages. At the same among iron ore miners and meas- time it notes the beneficial effects ures taken by the Montreal, Wis- on the farm population of higher consin. iron mines to control the wages and resulting better busihazard. The measures were chief- ness. ly engineering in character, but The example of C. I. O. activity, were supported by strict medical it says, is also stimulating the supervision. farm organizations Jo shake a leg The Montreal iron mines so far in real action and unite their as possible , conduct all blasting forces to obtain legislation which high-powere- rs or 0, 1933-193- t 6, (Continued from Page 5) & Machine Workers, of the C. I. 0. The vote in one of the largest of the locals was 2500 to 12 in favor of affiliation. Members of the three local unions work in electrical and machine plants. The new Minneapolis locals have been assigned U. E. II. &. M. W. charter numbers 1138, 1139 and 1140. William Mauseth, former district business representative of the I. A. of M., and a leader of the industrial union forces in Minnesota, led the shift to the C. I. O. TOBACCO WORKERS WIN CONTRACT union has made great gains in the State of California, Roberts said. Fifteen rubber factories have been organized, seven of . which have signed agreements and in ten of which we have sole bargaining rights. At our most recent election, in the Pacific Hard Rubber Company, we won by more than a two-thirmajority. A recent survey shows that since the advent of the C. I. 0. rubber unions, there has been an increase in the payroll of California rubber workers of one million dollars a ds year. MEN ASK SHIPPERS FOR BONUS ON TRIPS IN WAR-TORSEAS N NEW YORK (UNS) Ship own- ers should be forced to pay bonuses RICHMOND, Va. (UNS) Conto- tracts with three of the largest bacco companies in Virginia were negotiated for the United Tobacco Stemmers and Laborers Industrial Union, affiliated with the C. I. O., John H. Suttle, regional director, has announced. RUBBER UNION REPORTS BIG GAINS IN CALIFORNIA to seamen sailing in Spanish and Chinese waters, the Maritime Council of the Port of New York, an affiliated body of marine and harbor unions, said in a letter to the U. S. Maritime Commission. The added risk to seamen of sailing in war-tor- n waters, Thomas Ray, executive secretary of the Council, wrote, is obvious to anyone reading the newspaper reports of submarine attacks and bombings. LOS ANGELES (UNS) On the eve of his departure for the inter- NEW C. I. 0. UNION national convention of the United GROWS TO 90,000 Rubber Workers in Akron, George IN FOUR MONTHS Roberts, representative of District 5, stated that he was greatly NEW YORK (UNS) The Transgratified by the strides the U. it port Workers of America, W. A. has made in the West. C. I. 0. union, will open Within tht last nine months the its first national convention with a mass meeting at Madison Square w'ould bring the farmer cost of Garden, New York City, on Ocproduction. tober 4. John L. Lewis, C. I. 0. Ballads About chairman, is scheduled to make the The C. I. O. main address. The C. I. O. finds its justificaThe convention proper will be tion in the hearts of the millions, leld in the main auditorium of the says John L. Lewis. And like unions headquarters, 153 West everything else that is close to the 64th Street, and will be attended marts of the people, the C. I. O. bv close to 500 delegates, Austin las risen to their lips in ballad and Hogan, general secretary of the song. union said. Reference to songs about the C. The unions membership has in. O. has brought to attention a creased from 14,000 to 87,800 since number of southern ballads- on the :t was taken into the C. I. 0. on subject. Down in Alabama, for Hay 10, according to a report sent instance, the Union Womens Club out with the official convention of the Merrimack Local of C. I. O. call. Approximately 45,000 of those textile workers has printed a song now enrolled belong to the Greater sheet with several ballads in it New York local. composed by local people. The report also shows that in One of these, by Robert New York City, the T. W. U. has to the tune of Birmingham enrolled 34,000 of the 38,500 sub-wa- v, tells the story of the C. I. O. Jail, elevated, trolley and bus emin brief, racy and humorous style. ployes eligible for membership, Here are some verses, after a little and 11,300 of 12,000 eligible workintroduction about William Green: ers in the taxi industry. ts It has obtained closed shop t was in the year of thirty-si- x with wage increases amount-n- g Organized labor was in a heck to more than $4,500,000, shorter of a fix. paid vacations, overtime pay lours, William had said, I am for craft, and other improvements for some And this made John L. Lewis 21,000 employes of the I. R. T., laugh. Third Avenue Railway, New York Omnibus Corporation and He turned to William, these words City he said, What in the world is wrong writh your head? William then shouted, What do you mean? For am I not the great William Green? B. four-month-o- . - Hog-woo- d, con-xac- Then they had words about this hat. He turned to William and said, I will go, But youll hear of me and the 68-pa- I. O. ge Coast. This volume produced by the San Francisco Bay Area Council of the Maritime Federation, tells of the epic strike struggles of the western longshoremen and seamen who are now finding their way into the C. I. 0. The reason why they organized and the conditions which they have fought so successfully to better, are told in photographs of a sailors and dock workers life which give the real picture more completely than can any written argument. The volume can be obtained for 50c from District 2 of the Federation, 112 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. The NEW YORK (UNS) drive in the textile Industry, now entering the second half year since the Textile Workers Organization Committee was launched, has taken on fresh impetus as a result of the conference of the T. W. O. C., its regional directors and key organizers, which was held in New York, September 2 and 3, to report progress and to map the campaign for the coming months. About GO T. W. O. C. representatives from the principal textile centers attended. With more than 225,000 workers in the different branches of the textile industry now under T. W. O. C. agreement, chiefly the result of less than six months organization effort, the foundation has definitely been built for the complete unionization of the textile industry. Following a review by Sidney Hillman, T. W. O. C. chairman, of the unprecedented progress made in silk, rayon, woolen, carpet, cotton and other textiles, the conference heard regional reports covering every phase of the drive. Another highlight wa3 the reagreeport of the industry-wid- e ment in silk, the most chaotic of the textiles, covering 45,000 out of 57,000 workers in the industry. Reports of the synthetic rayon yarn Industry showed that 35,000 out of a total of 52,000 workers are under contract, with some of the largest factors in the industry dealing with the union. In the carpet industry, 16,000 out of a total of 30,000 are operating under union conditions. GREEN KNIFES LABOR IN BACK, SAYS BROPIIY The HOUSTON, Tex. (UNS) movement is being slandered as badly by modern economic royalists as the early fighters for American independence were slandered by the eighteenth cenC. I. O. tury royalists, lackeys and -on, John Brophy, hangers- C. I. O. director, said in a radio speech delivered in Houston on Labor Day. Summarizing the aims and achievements of the C. I. O. which was started to meet the needs of workers in mass production industries, Brophy declared that nearly (Continued on page 7) j Call today for a sight meter checkup o( your lighting. A phone call will bring a trained Home Lighting Advisor with helpful suggestions and free advice for getting better light in your home at the lowest cost. and that. The ballad goes on to tell of the suspension of the C. I. O. unions which caused John L. to have a big smile, the winning of union contracts in autos and steel, and the triumphant progress of the C. I. 0. textile drive in the South. A True Picture Of Life At Sea Another labor pictorial which deserves to rank with the handsome picture magazines on the International Ladies Garment Workers union, is Men and Ships, a volume of pictures on the the maritime workers of the West SIX MONTHS TEXTILE DRIVE BRINGS 225,000 WORKERS UNDER PACTS How Are the Lights In Your Home? After a while, John grabbed his C. ld Fifth Avenue Coach Company. More than 3300 of 4500 Independent Subway System employes are members of the T. W. U., Hogan stated. Outside of New York, the union has chartered locals and won agreements in cities in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin, California and eleven other states. There is no obligation and the checkup is free. Phone Your Dealer, or Utah Power & Light Co. |