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Show Keview o Current Events --- THE EDUCATE ORGANIZE fEOPLES TAPER I'M COOPERATE VOL VIII; mi'r SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH 4, 1938 NO. 35 League Marching Forward to Unified Labor Effort Non-Partis- an S 1 left. They right and Non-Partisa- Non-Partisa- Non-Partis- an one' C. I. O., one railway ,.brother- hodds, and three from independent organizations. The Salt Lake Trade Union unit of the League meeting at the Trade Union halls Monday nfght mapped an active membership drive and voted to send the unity resolutions to all local unions. CURRENT NOTES ON WASHINGTON (Reported to the Utah Labor News by The Peoples Lobby.) Taxation The House Ways and Means committee hearings on a new Revenue bill, were a field day for reactionists who demanded the repeal of the tax on undistributed profits, and generally opposed taxes on the principle of ability to pay, or bene- fits received. Unemployment relief will require at least $600,000,000 more for the current fiscal year than is avail able, and probably $750,000,000 more for the next fiscal year plus at least $500,000,000 for Federal aid to education. About 4,000,000 children are today either out of school, or merely sampling schooling, in poor and crowded schools, for four to eight weeks a year. This should be paid by current taxation, as feeding and teaching by bond issues, leads to human bondage. The House Ways and Means subcommittee reported: The total surplus, less deficit, in 1936 of the 144,914 corporations filing returns up to August 31, 1937, was $17,983,199,000. The surplus of the 128 corporations having that year incomes of $5,000,000 or over, was $5,302,451,-00- 0 or 29.6- per cent, or nearly three-tenth- s of the total surplus of the 144,914 corporations. While the reported deficit for all was $1,132,035,000 corporations the reported deficit among the 128 giant corporations was negligible While the if actual $122,000. income all these of net adjusted was $4,689,202,000 corporations that of the 128 large ones was or about 35 per cent, of the considerably over one-thi- Urges United Front The resolution reads as follows: Whereas the Labors League is the political arm of all members of organized labor and independent voters, and whereas it does not make distinction between any groups of organized workers, but works in the interest of all organized labor for the election of friends of labor, and for legislation in the interest of workers and the common people. Therefore, be it ' Resolved by the Trade Union unit of the Labors League of Utah that we invite anc urge all organizations and individ uals, whose aim is the bettermen of labor through legislation, to af filiate with the (Continued on page 3) Non-Partis- Non-Partis- Non-Partis- an an an LOOKING delight in talking about their neighbors and friends. It is a chronic disease with some folks to lie about the other folks. Some people had rather spread scandal than eat a square meal. Evidently the liars and scandal mongers have not learned the words of an unknown sage, who said: There is so much bad in the best of us, and so much good in the worst of us, that it behooves none of us to speak ill of the rest of us. Invariably the liars and scandalmongers are sly and sneaky. They carry on their slimy business behind the other fellows back. If they did not do this they could not exist. And when they are called to accounting about their lies they sneak away like whipped curs. Any one who has been a victim of liars will agree with me, when I say that a liar is about the lowest creature upon this earth even lower than a rattlesnake. The rattler gives a warning when it is ready to strike you but a liar on two legs does not. The mightier man, the mightier is the thing What makes him honored, or him For hater J greatest scandal greatest state. f be-get- a- -- waits on Shakespeare. USE YOUR BRAINS! A little codger was having trouble fitting together the parts of a home-mad- e wheelbarrow. The above exclamation was big brother's contribution toward the (Continued on page 7) AHEAD Political Outlook By In Len De Caux Utah and U. S. Compiled From Reports of Observers On Unanswered Attacks The question is frequently asked, why does not the C. I. O. reply of- DEMOCRATIC PARTY ficially to the many slanderous and lying attacks made upon it in newspapers and magazines? The answer is that it does reply to these attacks, but in its own way and not. in the manner cho sen by its enemies. Since the C. I. O. began bringing collective bargaining, higher wages and union conditions to millions of previously unorganized Americans, it has been subjected to every kind of attempt to lie and slander it out of existence. The favorite line of such attacks is the red scare the oldest and phoniest device employed by reaction against every progressive movement. The virulence of such slander Is in direct proportion to the vitality and effectiveness of the movement against which it is aimed. The C. I. O. is flattered to have deserved such violent animosity from the enemies of labor. The Stolberg Series The Stolberg series of articles on the C. I. O., which ran recently in Scripps - Howard papers, has ieen hailed by the Girdlers, the Hagues and other enemies of union "abor as in the direct line of succession to all previous attacks on the C. I. O. Were surprised how right we were, is in effect their reaction, total. The total reported assets were when they find that a formerly on Page 5) (Continued on Page 6) - red-baiti- ng rd ed Per Copy E SHAME OF AMERICA LIARS AND SCANDAL-MONGER- Non-Partisa- Adoption of a resolution by the Salt Lake City Trade n Union unit of the League urging a united front. The resolution was addressed to all members of organized labor and independently thinking citizens; American Federation of Labor central bodies, building trades councils, and local unions; Committee for Industrial Organization state council, central industrial councils, and local industrial unions. The resolution stated, Only by working together as a unit will it be possible for labor in Utah, especially in Salt Lake City, to obtain these desired results in the forthcoming elections and subsequent legislative sessions. Steps taken for unified fraternal relations between representatives of all progressive organizations, such as the Scandin navian Voters League, and others. received at the State League headquarters of Reports formation of more than 10 new units in six different Utah counties. The state office sent out to various units during the 5 Cents By M. I. T. What is it all bait a trouble of ants committee. Price: News and Comment Among the important developments during the week in the in the gleam of a million million suns? n Labor's League were: lies upon that Lies Preparations for a big mass meeting of Salt Lake City and side.upon this side, County Leaguers and friends at Trade Union halls, 68 South Tennyson West Temple street, Monday night, March 7,. 8 o'clock. This are liars and scandal important meeting will be addressed by speakers headed by There who mongers spread their venom State Senator E. M. Royle, chairman of the League organizing to the to the week more than 5000 membership cards and over 10,000 pamphlets. 50,000 Members The League will have more than 50,000 active members in this state before July 1 if the growth continues at the present pace, said M. I. Thompson, secretary of the Labors League of Utah. It was also noted that the Salt Lake membership committee of the League has four A. F. L. members, -rv n r DISTRICT MEETINGS FRIDAY, MARCH 18 Friday, March 18, is the date set for Salt Lake county Democrat party district reorganization mass meetings, and the county conven-;io- n will be held Saturday, March 26. The dates were set by the county committee, which automatically will pass out of existence. The district mass meetings will open at 7:30 p. m., at polling places o be published later. The first half hour will be devoted to nominations and miscellaneous business and from 8 to 9 p. m. balloting on district officers and delegates to ;he county convention will take place. The retiring committee appor-;ione- d district representation on The the new county committee. minimum number apportioned to a district was one and the maximum two. On this basis the new county committee will consist of 328 members. Under the new primary law the maximum possible membership is in excess of 1000, but it was agreed that allotments should be made with a view of keeping the committee as small as possible. The retiring committee also recommended that the new committee, which will be elected at the county convention, set up an executive committee consisting of the four (Continued on Page 4) palling child labor exploitation in the swamp and pine fl Georgia, Alabama and Florida is revealed in a study by L Sidel for the National Child Labor committee. It is Jaiu. compiled from turpentine camps in Alabama, Florida and Georgia, The report cites typical cases of boys under 6 doing the hot, arduous labor of turpentine chipping, pulling, dipping and wagon driving. In $ome camps children represented 8 per cent to 0 per cent of the total working force during the fall slow' season. During the busier summer season, large numbers of children playing about the camps were put to work. Meeting difficulty in getting sufficient labor because of low pa and bad conditions, operators resort to stealing' workers from each other. To prevent workers leaving the camp, operators are reported to have used force with the excuse that money was owed to camp owners. Pay is in the form of metal tokens, good only for purchase in company commissaries, where prices are from 10 per cent to 25 per cent higher than in independent stores. Average wages are from $5 to $6.50 weekly. A seven-poun- d knife with a heavy iron ball on the handle is the tool given child chippers, who are require to labor from n sun-u- p in tasks hard enough for grown men. Hardto is still of work the er pullers, who must use a knife attached to a long pole to cut through the faces of scarred pine trees for their gum. Most children in camps are used as dippers. They pour the gum into wooden buckets from aluminum or earthenware 1 1 sun-dow- (Continued on page 8) UNION LABOR STEALS HUGE ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN ANTI-LABO- R The nation-wid- e advertising campaign of the National Manufacturers. Association to subjugate labor is back firing. Organized labor has determined to capitalize on capital's millions and throw the entire campaign in reverse. In other words, the United Rubber Workers of America, followed by other labor unions, have started a campaign of their own in the interests of organized labor by using the same slogans that the National Manufacturers association spent mil- lions to popularize. What helps business helps you association slogan that fairly shouts its thousands of huge billboards from Maine to California. Many of these billboards have been set up in Salt Lake City and other points in Utah. The campaign of organized labor got under way last week when thousands of pamphlets made their appearance in industrial centers is the manufacturers' anti-labo- r message from using the identical slogans and pictures created by the manufacturers association. Different Message But the message conveyed has a far different meaning. It is prolabor ip every respect. (Continued on page 2) Labor on Its Forward March; C. I. O. Is Active SUPREME COURT OUTLAWS COMPANY DOMINATED UNIONS It was good news to all that came from Washington labor Mon- day when the supreme court the right of the National La-Relations Board to use a potent weapon agains company-dominate- d unions. In the Greyhound Bus Lines cases, the court held the labor joard had authority under the Wagner Act to require an employer to withdraw recognition from a union which he had formed and was The decision dominated. unanimous. The court also decided by a 5 to vote that a Federal District court Wisconsin had exceeded its in granting an injunction y against union picketing of a which said it was on peaceful ;erms with its workers. up-le- ld xr -- au-hori- ty Governor Leslie A. Miller. Mr. Fox is one of the best known labor leaders in the intermountain states. He was president of the Wyoming State Federation of Labor from March 16, 1916, to March, 1933, when he resigned to accept the important assignment of labor, advisor in the NRA setup. We know Harry will make an excellent labor commissioner. And by the way thats something Utah should have a labor commissioner, distinctly divorced from the industrial commission as at present. Some day it will come to that and labor in general will be benefited. BREWERY WORKERS ASK DISAPPROVAL OF TEAMSTERS LABEL of the recent A. F. L. executive the of meeting council was when General Secretary-Treasurer Joseph Obergfell TO CONGRATULATIONS of the Brewery Workers International union, bearding the lions in IARRY W. FOX their own den, appeared to protest TeamWe congratulate Harry W. Fox the councils approval of label. Though this or his appointment to the impor- sters scab beer not did incident get any space in tant office of labor commissioner of and A. F. L. the newspapers daily The ap;he state of Wyoming. on page 4) (Continued pointment was made last week by com-3an- The highlights |