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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, OCTOBER 29, 1937. Page 4 Editorial! IPaige Tlhe Utalh Labor Mews ofi LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH bhtbwoaqj (Continued from Page 1) City commission next Tuesday who have a plan to put the city on a cash basis as soon as possible. These candidates are not the incumbents, who have not done anything toward reduction of the debts. One of the candidates who has a genuine and feasible plan placing Salt Lake City on a cash basis is Lawrence A. Johnson. He knows tax problems because he has made a study of them. He has served for the past few years as chief deputy in the county assessor's office. Because Salt Lake City commission needs a man of Johnson's knowledge of tax and finance matters we are for him and we urge voters to go to the polls and vote for him. The tax problem and reduction of the citys bonded indebtedness is a very important issue in this election, and therefore we should elect Lawrence A. Johnson who is pledged to the citizens of this city for a definite program of debt reduction and placing the city on a cash basis, which means tax reductions in the near future. (Continued from page 3) C. I. (). WINS CONTRACT mittee appointed by Mayor -l and composed of Arthur S. Meyer, chairman; Professor Joseph respectively. Six plants are organized 100 P. Chamberlain of Columbia University; and William M. Leiserson, per cent and in many of the big- chairman of the National Railway gest plants,' union Mediation Board. membership is closely approachIn addition to the wage ining 100 percent. one and two weeks' paid In the Chicago area, where Ar- creases, vacations were also granted. Five thur Kamfert is Regional Direc- per cent of the pay increase will tor, the majority of the more than be given beginning with the pay10.000 workers in the big Swift, roll of Oct. 31, 1937, and the other Armour and Wilson plants have half will be given beginning Jan. bfeen organized in the C. I. O. and 30. 1938. union recognition been achas During the duration of the concorded in Swifts and Armours, tract which runs until Dec. 31, The Miller & Hart and P. T. Bren- 1938, the unioin agrees to continue nan plants are 100 per cent or sendee without interruption. ganized and Libby, McNeil & Libby and G. II. Hammond are al- C. I. (). SHIP UNION WINS A TWO MORE ELECTIONS most completely organized. United Packing House Workers NEW YORK (UNS) Ship reCouncil has been established in men of the Grace Line and pair Chicago, representing more than the International Mercantile Ma10.000 workers. rine voted for the C. I. O. Company In the middle west region, inIndustrial Union of Marine and cluding Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska Shipbuilding Workers, in a Naand South Dakota, where Don Har- tional Labor Relatioins Board elecris is Regional Director, nearly tion recently, adding two more 10.000 workers have been organeasy victories to their growing ized. The 2G00 workers at Hor-me- ls votes of no less than and in two cases by The WASHINGTON, D. C. United Agricultural, Cannery, Packing and Allied Workers of America, a C. I. O. affiliate, announced the signing of a union contract between its local No. 17 and J. Hartley Taylor, owner of the Runnymcade Farms in Reseda, California. This farm employs 200 poultry workers all year round, covers 120 acres, and has 1,000,000 chickens in 305 chicken . houses. 10-to- rn the The agreement between workers and the owner was arrived at without any strike action. Ie-fothe union representatives entered into negotiations, 190 workers walked out in an orderly C. I. O. PLAN IS HERE TO STAY demonstration of strength. the The contract recognizes United Agricultural, Cannery, will I. is here and O. unionism of C. labor The go plan Packing and Allied Workers of there will be no limiting of its influence, but on the contrary America, plant, Austin, Minn., are local No. 17, as sole barL. chair100 said work of its Lewis, extension John an per cent organized, as are organizing gaining agency for the workers. 1800 workers at Wilsons also the a man of the Committee for Industrial Organization, in the speech It provides wage increases of inat Cedar Rapids, la. Nearly a dollar all for plant workers, day with which he closed the recent Atlantic City conference of C. all the of workers are now organ the lowest from creasing paid I. O. leaders. $2.25 to $3.25 a day, and the high- ized in Morrells at Ottumwa, la., Referring to the record of achievements of the C. I. O. as est paid from $4 to $5 a day. Oth- Armours plant at Omaha, and the "one unsurpassed in the history of labor in this or any other er provisions establish seniority great majority of the workers have week for women been organized at Armours plant rights, a country," Lewis said: 48 hours and time and a in South St. Paul. for "The C. I. O. is here because it is founded on the princi- half for overtime, men, 6 paid holidays, ples in which the workers believe, because it offers the workers one weeks vacation with pay, CHICAGO LIBRARIANS of this country practical modern machinery to bring about the $3.25 a day wage for apprentices JOIN C. I. O. UNION during the training period, no dis things that they strive for, the things that every man and woman pie work. They have a right to a I crimination against the workers EmWASHINGTON (UNS) which because of their union affiliation, who works desires. job. If the corporations liof the ployes public Chicago No Lessening of Effort control American industry fail to All foremen are excluded from the have been charter a brary granted You may be assured that in the provide them with that jog in their provisions of the contract, MuniciMr. Taylor, the owner of the by the State, County and conferences that may or may not management of industrys affairs Abram pal Workers, Flaxer, the eventuate with the A. F. of L. then there must be some power, farm, is the largest employer of unions executive your representatives will do noth- somewhere ' in this land of ours, agricultural labor in southern Cal-th- announces. This is the first local will go over and above and ifornia. Louis Fabian, organizer ing that will in any way circum of its kind to join the C. I. O. scribe or limit the influence or the beyond those corporations with all of the local which obtained the union. trend of our movement, or in any their influence and power and pro- - contract, reports that since the Several weeks employes of way contribute towards a lessen- vide a job and insure the right to signing of th agreement, workers the Chicago ReliefagoAdministration in many industries in the valley ing of effort of our mutual live for that American. and the Cook County Bureau of to mem have The cause or the of the enterprise, any Congress longer literally begged for organi-Unite- d public welfare were taken into the ber back in his home locality to States and the administra-- 1 zation. S. C. M. W. as Local 30. Formerly think for a moment that there is tion in power dodges that fundaaffiliated to the A. F. of L., the going to be any lessening of this mental proposition, just so long 25,000 WORKERS local, which now has a memberT MEAT work of organization here in will America be in economic tur- - IN of nearly 500, voted overship America. PLANTS JOIN C. I. O. moil. to transfer to the C. whelmingly This movement must go on. We Calling attention to the miserI. O. are practically 4,000,000 strong able conditions of the sharecropATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (UNS) Rapid progress in organizing C. I. O. TRANSPORT UNION today in less than two years of pers, and all other underpaid, ill- actual organizing effort. When housed, and underfed workers, meat packing house workers in the two years more elapse we will Lewis declared that nothing had mid-wewas reported at the C. WINS PACT WITH B. M. T. have more millions of members in been done to remedy their condi- I. O. Atlantic City conference by NEW YORK (UNS) The our great movement. The last Congress ad- - Van A. Bittner, director of the re- threatened tions. on of lines strike the If the A. F. of L. officials journed without even enacting that cently launched C. I. O. packing the B. M. T. averthas been system choose to lay aside their prejudices poor, halting wages and hours house drive. Out of a possible and join the C. I. 0. in working bill that finally emerged from the 40,000 workers in the plants where ed by the signing of a contract with the C. I. O. Transport Workout a program of unity tis well. committee, he said. has been under way, ers Union granting organizing a 10 per cent If they elect not to do so, the reCant Live on Platitudes more than 25,000 are already wage increase, a $25 .weekly minsponsibility for that decision will Americans cannot eat or live signed up in the C. I. O imum closed a and pay shop for be upon their heads, and their on or musical phrases platitudes Sole bargaining rights have been some 9000 of the companys emshoulders. But the C. I. O. will go they want buying power they won by the iocal unions of the ployes. on it will go on working out its want shorter hours. Give them The agreement was reached q jn f our plants after elecown destiny, and its destiny is to buying power and shorter hours q b g the aid of a with c com carried the tiong 0. by j make true some of the dreams of and they will their eco-- 1 improve its millions of members. nomic and their social status. They Political Action will learn to improve their E Lewis stressed the wider aims of leisure, avail themselves of it. the labor movement as repre- They will know what to do with : sented by the C. I. 0., in regard to it. political action, unemploynent and The poor have no one upon Poother national problems. whom to depend, Lewis said, ex- - E litical action on the part of Amer- cept upon a militant, intelligent, E ican workers will be a natural bywell - functioning S product of economic freedom ob- and modern American labor move- - E tained through the right to or- ment and in that fact lies the E ganize and through economic bar- strength of the C. I. O. gaining, he said. The C. I. O. is organized on a The United States, according to basis where there will be no ter- the C. I. O. leader, is not out of mination of its efforts. There will E the woods, economically speaking. e even an increase in the size of E In five years of experimentation, its instrumentality and the em-- 1 E he said, no progress has been made of its field forces. ployment toward solving the question of employment, and technological dis(The full text of the speech of js placement is proceeding apace. L. Lewis referred John to above E One of the great principles for will be in printed pamphlet form, E which labor in America must be and obtained may by writing to E in the future is the right of stand Or- - 2 the Committee for Industrial man woman and to have a every Publicity Department, E job, to earn a living if he or she is ganization, 1106 Connecticut Avenue, N. W.,E willing to work, Lewis declared. D. C.) Washington, The Right to Work We have heard much about the Manufacturers of right to work. Well, let our peo- re 15-min- 40-ho- ia, ne 21-to- -l mid-weste- ON WORLD'S LARGEST POULTRY FARM two-to-o- ur vice-preside- at I MID-WES- nt score. Officials of the C. I. O. union that their claim that the International Longshoremens A. F. of L. rival in the election, is practically defunct was again proved true by the returns, which showed a GO to 1 vote in favor of their group on the I. M. M. line. On the Grace Line, the vote was 80 to 15 for the Industrial said Asso-siatio- Union. Election notices for unlicensed seamen have been posted on 175 vessels of 38 Atlantic and Gulf coast lines, according to a Labor Board announcement. Ballots have already been cast on 75 of the vessels. Election notices are posted whenever any of the ships of the lines concerned, come into port at New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco. We Have Started Now So Lets Keep - Going P. II. PAT st For CITY COMMISSIONER Vote for Pat Election Nov. 2 (Paid Political Adv.) fact-findin- kHIIlllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllllllli;illllIIimillllll!llllllllllltlltllllllllllllll E I r well-organize- d, Best Wishes To Labor I Sugar Company Utah-Ma- h BEST WISHES TO UTAH LABOR W. E. FIFE CO. MENS FURNISHINGS 170 South Main UJ amdl 0 Beneficial Life Building n, Salt Lake City Wasatch 4099 rmiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiimiiimiimmiiiiimiimmimmiiiiiimmmimiimmmiiimmiimmiiiiiimimmiimiimi- i- |