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Show r UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. SEPTEMBER 24. 1937. WANTED LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH ONE MAN By. DR. CHARLES STELZLE Executive Director, Good Neighbor League There never was a notable thing done in the history of mankind that did not have its origin in some one man not a corporation, not a mass meeting, not a society but just one man. This applies to inventions, to reform measures, to labor movements, as well as to revolutions. Just one man but he was a man who stood out from the crowd, not necessarily in his physical make-unor in the clothes that he wore. The thing that made him different was what was inside of him. But that which was in his heart and mind soon became apparent to others no matter whether it was good of bad. In international affairs we see the power of a Stalin, a Mussolini, a Hitler, a Baldwin, a Roosevelt. In industrial matters in this country we recognize Green and Lewis and the leaders associated with them. In smaller areas even in the tiniest towns there are men who are conspicuous because of their dominating influence. Each of these is swaying nations, movement, communities for good or for ill. We hear much these days about mass psychology the mob which down level man in crowd to of the the the spirit pulls every lowest individual in the mob. We see this happening when a lynching takes place, or when riots occur. And its a lot easier to pull down the morale of the crowd than it is to lift it to higher levels. It is in times like these that the one man makes himself felt. The world is sadly in need of being made over. It lags behind because of the lack of leadership of the right kind. It will never be remade by resolution or pronouncement. Jt requires the one man who can bring things to pass One man, whose horizon extends beyond the sordidness of life, who is not dismayed by the dark shadows of slums and sin of every sort. One man who will not falter when the enemies of righteousness assail him with lies, nor when the friends who want peace at any price caution him to go slow for fear that he may start something. One man, who is ready to make common cause against stand-pattersickly sentimentalists, and all that tribe that pretends to find comfort in the fallacy that Gods in His heaven alls right with the world for things are NOT right with the world. One man, who will say to his fellows, Come on lets do it; but who will do it whether anybody comes or not. One man, who will take risks and dare defeat, and who truly believes that the day has not gone by when One shall chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight. One man, who has in him the stuff of which martyrs are made, but who never thinks of himself as a martyr. JUST ONE MAN. Not an army, nor a regiment, nor a battalion not even a company. wise men the To do these things will depend upon the to have seem times: men of our things pretty bungled they great badly, in Industry, in Politics, in International Affairs. HOW ABOUT YOU? ARE YOU THE ONE MAN WHO IS WANTED? p, s, soft-treader- s, so-call- ed C. I. 0. (Continued from page 4) of all the noise about sit downs, was almost wholly free from violence. Workers sat in the factories for weeks and no property was damaged. Workers respect prop crty, as they respect law. Bosses respect property, too. It is one thing to shoot workers. It is another to damage an expensive machine if you own the machine Auto workers were sitting down with the machines in the auto factories. The machines saved the workers from boss violence. So there was no violence in the General Motors strike. Death In Steel But in the steel strike there has been violence and sudden death, Eighteen people have died. Many more have been wounded. Every one of those 18 was a striker or a strike sympathizer. All the cops and the deputy sheriffs who were on strike duty are alive and well. Not one scab has been shot. Steel strikers riot, scream the newspaper headlines. What is the truth? On Memorial Day, in Chicago. 10 persons were killed, eight of them shot in the back. Many were brutally clubbed. All were denied prompt medical aid. The Chicago police called it with the C. I. 0. It threatens every union worker, without asking to see his union card. It does not spare workers who belong to the A. F. of L. Just a few weeks ago two A. F. of L. workers were shot down at Alcoa, Tenn. Mohawk Valley Plan If you want to learn the whole truth about boss violence, you tan learn it best from the bosses themSometimes they tell the selves. truth if they think you are not listening. They told the truth in a strange document called the Mohawk Valley plan. It happened this way: In the spring of 1936 an A. F. of L. local called the work- Remington-Ran- d ers out on strike. James Rand and his associates worked out a plan for breaking that strike. It was so good that they made the American Manufacturers association a present of their brain child. The Mohawk Valley plan is so good that the steel companies, and partic- ularly Republic Steel, used it in the present strike. It is so good that it will be used again. Part of this plan is a trick to fool you you, the nonstriking citizens; you, the people the public. The National Labor Relations the Mohawk Board condemned Valley plan. The Board describes the plan fully in its decision in the case. I give you The Chicago coron- Remington-Ran- d homof the plan, secone section called it only ers jury justifiable The Chicago Tribune said, tion 2. I quote: icide. When a strike is called raise Fine work. But the Paramount news reel high the banner of law and order, told the truth. It showed the ter- thereby causing the community to rified defenseless people infull re- mass legal and police weapons treat across the open prairie. It against a wholly imagined vioshowed the brutality of the police, lence. The community thats you. The the company clubs in their hands. thats The hearings before the Senate wholly imagined violence Civil Liberties committee told the ;he C. I. 0. violence you have been truth. Violence? Yes. But work- hearing so much about. The Moers did not bring violence to that hawk Valley plan tells about the prairie. It was brought bv Tom real violence, too. The only real violence there is the boss vioGirdler and the Chicago police. Tom Girdler brought violence to lence. It tells about the press campaign Massillon, Ohio, where two steel in down front against the workers all workers workers were shot He who try to organize. Study the of C. I. 0. headquarters. Mohawk Valiev plan. Dont be and violence to Cleveland, brought a steel worker died. Yet, while fooled again. Write and ask me to denying steel workers the right to send you a copy. Not the Mohawk Valley plan ask for a living- wage, Tom Girdler received the fabulous salary of not all the olanned violence of the $175,000 in 1936, according to a bosses will stop American workreport released today by the Se- ers from organizing. They are ready to struggle, to curity and Exchange Commission. sacrifice for that better life. C. I. Who will you call dictatorial, the C. I. 0. or Tom O., C. I. 0., organize! Defend your Girdler? legal rights. Defend the rights of If you look back over American all who work. American workers, labor history you will find the an- hear the call and answer. Now swer. The C. I. 0. did not bring they call to us to you for underviolence to the labor movement. standing and support. They are There was violence at Homestead, our people, the people who produce at Ludlow, long before the C. I. 0. our wealth. We cannot fail them, was born. Violence does not stop for their future is our own. self-defens- e. small-busine- Page 7 ss council for Arkansas and Oklahoma. In addition, industrial union councils have been set up in more than CO cities and counties, where action has been taken by the A. F. (Continued from Fage C) all our major achievements have of L. to expel C. I. 0. affiliates. In a statement issued on the occurred in the year since we wertf matter of affiliation, President outlawed from the A. F. of L. Easton said: What we 'in West PresiAccusing the A. F. of L. dent of disrupting the labor move- Virginia want to know is how Mr. ment, Brophy declared that while Green can reconcile his William Green mouths smooth talk about democratic rule and and deceptive words, he drives the against forcing the will of a miknife of disunity deeper into the nority on a majority with his action in this instance. back of labor. The West Virginia Federation "If Green wishes to restore the of Labor, not merely by a majority, unity which he has violated, why but by the action of the entire are his representatives now going of 661 delegates unanigroup from state to state, from city to mously rejected Greens order to with to state orders citv, split federations and city central bodies expel C. I. 0. unions. As we in in half by driving out all the unions West Virginia see the picture, the A. F. of L. executive council is in the C. I. 0.? oft-repeat- ed seeking to make federations of labor and central bodies its eats-pato enforce minority rule. CHARTERS LABOR FEDERATION OF WEST VIRGINIA C. I. O. w FINISHERS SIGN NATIONAL HOSIERY UNION A PACT WITH WASHINGTON (UNS) charter has been issued to the West Virginia Federation of Labor at the request of President John B. Easton, acting under the authority granted him by unanimous decision of the Federations executive council. John Brophy, C. I. 0. director, has announced. The state body, representing 170,000 organized workers, will be chartered under the name of the West Virginia Industrial Union C. I. O. signed by the Hosiery Manufacturers of America. Full-Fashion- ed KLECTKICAL-ItADIUNION GROWS 500 PER CENT IN ONE YEAR O PHILADELPHIA (UNS) Problems of rapid growth faced the United Electrical and Radio Workers of America at its second annual convention held recently in Philadelphia. They resemble those confronting most of the other new C. I. 0. unions which have grown suddenly to giant stature in the past year. How can the union best knit together the various parts of this big organization which has a record of a 500 per cent increase since the 1936 convention, the delegates debated. At the 1936 convention held in Fort Wayne, Ind., delegates from 26 locals representing 25,000 workers were present. At this years convention, 275 locals with a total membership of approximately 125,-00- 0 were represented. The union now lays claim to being the seventh largest in the C. I. 0. A part of the tremendous increase in membership in recent months has been brought about by the affiliation with the C. I. 0. of a number of locals formerly belonging to the International Association of Machinists, A. F. of L. affiliate. The PHILADELPHIA (UNS) entire hosiery finishing and dyeing industry is now operating under union contract, the American Federation of Hosiery Workers, C. I. 0. union, has announced. Last mtn-ut- e agreement by the National Association of Hosiery Dyers and Finishers, Inc., to the unions demands. averted a strike of more than 3200 workers in the induThe Hatching strys 22 plants in Pennsylvania, Council. A great thought for the week: The C. 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