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Show Review ofi Current Events EDUCATE ORGANIZE THE PEOPLES PAPER COOPERATE VOL VIII; NO. 33 Labors Ie SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. FEBRUARY 18. 1938 M Non-Parlis- an Unit Organize Pa Non-Partis- Provo By M. I. T. an TRADE UNION LEAGUE ASKS FOR INVESTIGATION , of the League its club Temple street, unanimously adopted a res olution addressed to the Third Ju-dicia- l se-sio- us D. D. Moffat, vice president and general manager of the Utah Copper company, was reported to have announced that he would resist any order from the National Labor Relations Board in accordance with recommendations by Examiner P. H. McNally that the present company union as employes bar gaining agent be dissolved. Mr. McNally held the Utah Copper company was engaged in unfair labor practices by. refusal to recognize the International -- Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, a bona fide workers organization and collective bargaining agent. Sweeping Order The government order is one of the most sweeping ones ever issued in Utah. It strips the Utah Copper company of the company union conmachinery which had been as maintained and trived, adopted the aca' smoke screen to off-stivities of a bona fide union, and cheat the employes from their just rights as members of a labor union of their own choosing. This et Some folks are very much work ed up and excited over the bally hoo, etc., in the present Salt Lake City affairs. I ask those who are crtdy: t pass judgment and throw stone? at this one and that one, to read Chapter 8 in the Gospel of St. John. The chapter deals with the experiences of Jesus, the lowly Naz ' . arene. to I ask you Especially ponder over Verse 7, Chapter 8. It reads: So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto' them, he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. I am for a clean city, but I believe that an investigation, be it grand jury or otherwise, should delve into the heart of the mess reach the big fish. The little fry, whose names are being published in the papers and who are paraded in police court are victims of our social and economic systems. It will not clarify the situation. I cant get excited over the situation as it is handled at the present time. I have seen the small fry haled into court in Salt Lake City year after year and that is all there is to it. After the flurry was over the business kept up as usual. If you are to get even to first base in this much talked of cleanup, you must get to the heart of s. . things. Get the real reactionaries advocate incorporation of labor unions. There are serious dangers in this propaganda. Incorporation of Unions would mean that the control of trade unions would pass into the hands of the state. Incorporation of labor unions pet ideas of the nations Fascist-minde- d is' most reactionary labor-baiteThe Republican party, the once more pushed forward on the ed, Mormon church, and the Ladies nations legislative front. of the Baptist church Aid Society To Object Is Destroy In half a dozen states, legisla- might just as reasonably be comtures have listed on their programs pelled to incorporate as to.4 force consideration of varying types of labor unions to do so. month J. B. Moss, writing incorporation bills designed to cut in This the United Rubber Worker, off vigor and life blood of the lahow incorporation of ladescribes bor movement. would work. bor unions In practically every case these In the first place, a corporation bills have received little consideration. But in every case they repre- is an organization which has ob-a sent a danger to American labor tained permission (in the form of charter) from the states to carry unionism. on certain activities, Moss wrote. to trade is the If object destroy (Continued $n page 3) unions, they should be incorporat their-purpos- e Labor Unions in Utah. Political Outlook All Utah citizens can point with pride to Carbon county, one of the most tensely industrialized sections of the state. It is a center of Utahs coal mining industry. It produces dry ice and cardox. It has enough rock asphalt to pave the roads of all America. Carbon countys schools are second to none in Utah. It is the best organized trade union section in Utah practically speaking all workers and trades are organized. In Utah and U. S. Compiled From Reports of Observers that it is bigger than the United March; C. I. O. Is Active ing for the big business buccaneers. Probably the most nauseating features of the daily papers are the widely touted columnists and their ridiculous attempts to pose as if clothed in exceptional wisdom. Most damnable of all is the pretension to exclusive news on the part of many of i them. It is, of course, the right of the owners of daily papers to print just what they see fit. It is also the right of members of organized labor to appreciate that daily papers are not sent into their homes to enlighten them but to enslave them. Daily newspapers are no longer planned to inform their readers, but are in reality only the daily propaganda bulletins of the great branch banks and industrial interests, intended to protect employing interests hostile to organized labor in their robberies, wars and exploitations, to assail the workers in time of strike, paint ridiculous pictures of large incomes for farmers who always live in the shadow of poverty and want, carrying the truth only at very rare intervals and then only in the hope that confidence thus gained may make possible even greater deceptions than previously, vilifying and condemning liberal political parties and leaders of liberal political parties. Daily newspapers today represent the smallest journalistic caliber to which publications have ever shrunk with most editors only ventriloquist dummies for the owners of industry and finance who are the real editors, and with columnist writers with their nauseating flattery of the industrial and financial crooks hoping thus to gain high salaried positions, the most despicable and grotesque figures imaginable. Not for a minute would we even suggest that daily newspapers bearing the union label should not be bought. But when is to destroy you let them in the house remember and who those lower would as much family by aiding you your Carbon County Industries Building Utah Payrolls laws. The management of the Utah Copper company evidently feels States government. At the same time the bona fide union has been urged into action as a result of the Labor Board ex aminers conclusions and is carry ing on militant organization activi ties. According to District Secretary E. M. Royle a 100 per cent organization under the banner of (Continued on page 4) evil-doer- (From the Minneapolis Labor Review) Every day contents of daily papers become more disgusting. With almost machine gun fire rapidity and continuousness they continue their attack on the President and their wail- (Continued on page 8) Preachers to run a night club. That title contains a truth but is not the whole truth. It appears that a group of ministers in Milwaukee, realizing that young people will dance and that most of the evils arising therefrom are not due to moving feet about in time with music, have decided to try an exCenter of Utah's Coal, Dry Ice and Rock Asphalt Industries periment. At least they have agreed to Forging Ahead County Commissioners Show Results of club sanction a midnight-closin- g Their Activities and At the Same Time Reduce Tax Rates in which supervised dancing and Is ' an Asset to the Entire State - Strongest Organized s (Continued on page 7) in defiance of national and state Labor on Its Forward rs THE FIRST STONE? district court judges asking for a grand jury investigation of the present existing mess in the Salt Lake City affairs. The resolution reads: To the honorable judges of the Third Judicial district, state of Utah Gentlemen: "Whereas, there have been charges made by implications, inuendos, and otherwise, pro and con, against men within and without the Salt Lake City government; and Whereas, we believe that in the interest of public decency and the Citys honor, something must be done immediately to learn the truth in the existing mess, and clear suspicion from the innocent ones, and place it where it justly belongs; Therefore, be it, Resolved, that the board of directors of the Trade Union Democratic League appeal to the Hon-orable Judges of the Third Judicial District of Utah praying that a grand jury be convened for the sole purpose of making a, thorough A NEW. SORT OF... (Continued on page 3) NIGHT CLUB Utah Copper Defies U. S. Government ; NOT TO ENLIGHTEN: TO ENSLAVE WIIO SHALL CAST an sentatives from Lehi, American' Fork, Pleasant Grove, Payson and other cities in Utah county. The meeting was addressed by Senator Another meeting will be Royle. called at an early date to perfect the plans. Zobell Is President William Zobell was chosen president of Provo unit of the League Other officers are: Ed Bentham, vice president; Rulon Edwards, secretary, and David Reese, treasurer. Senator Royle made a rousing address on the subject, Will Progressive America March On To Freedom? Mr. Scott said that today there is need, more than ever beforfc, for liberal political action in Utah and the nation. Mr. Jones told the history of the Labors League and declared that it was the vehicle for all liberal-minded people to secure legislation beneficial to the people. The board of directors Trade Union Democratic meeting Tuesday night at rooms, 168 South West OKMAIL: News and Comment Provo and Utah county are organizing strong and.mili of the Labors units tant League of Utah. At a well attended meeting held in Labor hall in Provo Thursday night a unit of the League was organized and officers elected. The speakers at the meeting were State Senator E. M. Royle, chairman of the organization committee, and A. M. Scott, of Salt Lake City, and Varro Jones of Provo, members of the organizing committee. Another rousing meeting was held at Pleasant Grove Monday night, where steps were taken to form units of the League. The Monday night meeting was attended by repre Non-Partis- Price: 5 Cents Per Copy The Labors League of Utah is well organized here. All for unloading, yard labor and business men and industrial leaders trucking coal in Utah, for every The Little Business conference are friends of working men and working day of the year, an amount in excess of $3000 is paid. at Washington is over, its recom- women. The above mentioned payrolls Economical Administration mendations submitted, and its members back on the home range And, by the way, two of the contribute a great deal to Utahs renewing their eternal struggle to three county commissioners of prosperity. The Utah coal industry is among make debits and credits indicate a Carbon county come from the favorable balance. Many of the ranks of union labor Orvel Peter- the largest tax payers in the state. newspapers have had considerable son of Columbia and William En- Any one of the big coal producing fun over the conference, their gle of Price. The third commis- firms in Carbon, it is said, pays larbs mostly aimed at the admin-stratio- sioner, Dr. C. R. Fahring of Help- more taxes than the gas company. The coal industry in Utah condisregarding the fact er, is a friend of labor and works of that the New Deal is in no way for the betterment of working con- tributes greatly to the wealth to business and the 'state produces responsible for the mental insol- ditions of the men and women of retailers, wholesalers and manuvency of business big or Httle. In the county. The citizens of Carbon county facturers in a big way. act, the constitutional inability of The first consideration of all msiness to help solve the nations can point with just pride to the economic problems is the New splendid and economical adminis- loyal citizens and taxpayers should Deals biggest headache, next to tration of their county's business be, when considering heating for their homes, businesses, manufache inability of business to by their county commissioners. 100 to 1 Shot turing and industrial plants, to its shortcomings and Carbon county is the center of patronize an industry that builds make some willing adjustments to bum Utah coal, and thus Utahs coal mining industry. It Utah present conditions. maintain prosperity within help The men who, by provides employment for more short-sellinthan 100 well-pai- d workers to each the state. Dry Ice and other violations worker employed by the gas comwells ice are located in Carof decent business ethics, plus pany. When the gas company emDry ecoeast of Price, with facbon 65 in chronic county, workers, the coal industry ploys nomic and social matters, put gives employment to more than tory and office in Wellington. The Carbon Dioxice company, union workers. America on the economic rocks in 6500 well-pai- d of There is paid daily to Utah coal manufacturers of dry ice, also 29; still proclaimthat the voice be To voice God. of is mine the business employes, for each day Utah manufacture cardox, which is exsure the Insulls and the Mitchells coal mines operate $35,000. tensively used in blasting coal in The daily proportion of the rail- the mines. Cardox is said to be efhave been silenced, but there are others who took the same risks and road mens wages for hauling each ficient in this respect because it indulged in like practices, who if days output of Utah coal to Utah minimizes the danger of explosion and does not shatter coal. markets is $15,000. they were honest themselves (Continued on page 2) (Continued on Page 6) Wages paid daily to Utah men LITTLE BUSINESS Non-Partis- GOES TO TOWN , n, over-speculati- g, tax-dodgi- over-expansio- ng short-sightedne- ss n, an |