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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 20, 1938. Page 6 UTAH A. F. L. LEADER THREATENS PICKET LINES ON DEER CREEK JOB WALL STREET LOOKING AHEAD (Continued from Page 1) and some shift in poll dependence (Continued from Page 1) tical control. er sat down and Paul got up and facts and appeal to the workers But the strangling craft policies said the meeting was over. One and the people to support what is of the A. F. L. prevented union or is fellow said it was the C. I. 0. or right? Everyone knows what men ganization knockreaching its full and na the know the Workers' Alliance that right. They Workers still fel ed the lights out. He must have Provo and the north end of Utah tural growth. must register as their bosses been joking. He didnt look serious county, those of Salt Lake City they while they took cour even when he said it. and county and those of Wasatch deired, the vote to other way. mostage Another fellow said, Taul Pet county should have the jobs, As late as the elections of 1936, erson is wetter than the weather. ly. They know there should be no he discrimination nor favoritism o steel workers were still registering He did look serious. Maybe even wearing Lan belongs to the C. I. 0. or the any kind in giving men work. They Republican and as don a buttons badge of their in Workers' Alliance. know the time to bargain with the dustrial though their po serfdom, condi Creek he on: Deer Then bosses about the working went is a government job. It was pro- tions is when the men are at work, litical sympathies were in the othe moted by the people of Utah, most- They know that if the question camp. ly from Provo. It is sponsored by about who should do the bargain Union Success Brings the government and paid for by ing comes up, then is the time for Political Independence But in the meanwhile the great government money. The people of the men on the job to vote on the union drive of the Steel Workers Utah, the water users, will have to question as to what union shouh That Organizing Committee had gotten pay the money back. Congress pro- be the bargaining agency. I vided that the wages paid should meeting the biggest flop ever under way, and the elections of be the prevailing union wages in saw. No wonder organized labor 1936 resulted, in every steel town in a landslide vote for the New this section. The project was plan- dont get anywhere. Deal and the companies' ned to furnish jobs to the unemhe was out of the candidates. against time that By ployed and water for the farmers He and the rain. Since then, the great majority of and cities. It was not planned to building and into a run his made for shut up to favor nor Paul Peterson the steel workers have won their please car. union independence through tta S the American Federation. W. O. C. and collective bargaining Why didnt he state the plain has become the rule rather than the exception throughout the. industry, The result has been increasing LABOR ON ITS political freedom and independence FORWARD MARCH Steel workers, who have won the freedom to be union men without fear of discrimination or dis (Continued from Page 4) charge, now feel free to organize leave it attitude of nearly half politically and vote as they please, unworried by company threats. century ago, independent (possibly hi3 not only voting more are They financially independent through independently, but they are also long tenure of office), cool, and unconcerned. Did you ever hear of jutting forward labor candidates of their own and electing them him making any special effort, or In the last elections steel unionany effort, to house the A. F. L. in a Union-manne- d Hotel for their ists were elected as mayors in the conventions? steel towns of Duquesne and Clair-;o. . . Had there been two or more and altogether 172 labor men men of right caliber on the comwere elected public officials in mittee to heal the breach that is ennsylvania, mayors, justices of creating dualism and a cancer in he peace and other local officials, the Labor movement, the results dany Unionists might have been much more satistun for Office factory, and the wound healed . . . But this is just the beginning of they are still imbued with the haphe exercise of political freedom penings of 30 or 40 years ago, and that has come with union organitoo prone to zation. and ego. They are still livThis spring finds S. W. 0. C. ing in the past, and havent kept and every local office headquarters pace with modern methods, except a beehive of political activity. The to live on the fat of the land, along number of union men running for with extended vacations at Hot offices of all kinds is so great, that Springs and pleasure resorts. the union finds difficulty in listing all their names. MARITIME UNION WINS And an outstanding union leader PACT WITH OWNERS Thomas Kennedy, is the leading OF 60 BIG SHIP LINES candidate for the governorship of In the shadow of the deepening world crisis, Wall Street Is mar shalling its forces in three cam paigns. Two of these are economic and political in character, and na tional and international in scope-manipu- lation of the depression so as to strengthen the internal position of Big Business, and the development of a foreign policy that will more consciously and specifically align American capital with the reactionary capital groups abroad. The third is a purely local cam paign for nurity, or, more precise ly, a frantic effort to regain face after the humiliation caused by the disgrace of Richard (Our Hero) Whitney. The force of Wall Streets crisis campaign has been augmented by the unprecedented swiftness of the depression, a swiftness to which the main contributor has been Big Business sabotage of production and living standards by lay-of- fs and shutdowns. Surrounded by the fruits of this program in the form of a sharp rise in unemployment and a sharp slump in purchasing power, financial charlatans now shouting: Crisis! in the hope of terrorizing the people into ac ceptance of the Wall Street program. An example of this technique is the tearful plea regularly expressed by Walter Lippmann, spokesman for the Morgan interests, that the New Deal abandon its factionalism (i. e. its pursuit of further needed REINSTATEMENT OF OIL reforms) and in order to save the WORKERS IN WYOMING nation, concentrate on national ORDERED BY BOARD unity (i. e. surrender to Wall Street's demands). Special to the Utah Labor News Block Legislation CASPER, Wyo. Charges that Significally, the Streets cam-jaig- n the Continental Oil company, in its has been most successful at Glenrock, Big Mudwhere the organization of the progr- operations Salt Creek, had in several and dy essive-labor movement has been instances violated of weakest. In congress, where the ;he national labor provisions relations act, New Deals strength is vitiated by were rt upheld in an intermediate its reliance upon reactionary DemC. Waldo Holden, by ocrats such as Senator Harrison rail prepared examiner who presided over or many of its votes, Big Business the hearing here in March. las successfully blocked almost all A copy of the report was receivjrogressive legislation and has se- ed by F. T. Frisbey, district repcured lucrative tax concessions resentative of the Oil Workers which will facilitate the enlargeunion, which preferred ment of big fortunes. Similarly, the the charges. Frisbey described the jrogram of wage cuts has been findings and recommendations as a ruthlessly executed at the expense sweeping victory for the union, of unorganized salaried employes. which is affiliated with the C. I. 0. U. S. Steel, General Motors, GenerThe examiner held that F. D. al Electric, Chrysler, the rubber Moore and Ernest Jones, declared companies and most of their satel- in the hearing to have been sublites have already taken such acjected to discrimination because of tion. their union activities, should be ofPennsylvania. But the union workers in these fered their former jobs .with the Candidates for public office gen by virtue of their company with the rights and priverally find the labor vote no long- same plants, er something which can be deliv- strong C. I. 0. organization, have ileges previously enjoyed, togethtremendous er with restoration of back pay successfully halted ered to them by political bosses. In Pittsburgh, for instance, the pressure for cuts in wage rates from the time they left the comC. I. 0. Industrial Union Council is which would cancel the hard-wo- n panys employ. putting every candidate through a gains of the past two years. LikeThe examiner also concluded that rigorous test before it will consider wise, in congress, the strength of the company had refused to barorganized labor alone has blocked gain collectively, had discouraged endorsement. First its legislative committee Big Business advance towards its membership in the oil workers examines all candidates. They are most cherished objective the re- union, had dominated and interferor mutilation of the National ed with a labor required to give definite answers, peal organization known Labor Relations Act. stand about their for the record, as the Independent Association of on unemployment relief, wage-hoConoco-Glenroc- k Treasury Invasion Refinery Emand legislation, security legislation Now, the depression tactics of ployes and with the group of Salt all other matters of concern to Wall Street are broadening to in- Creek employes for the purpose labor. clude a brazen invasion of the pub- of bargaining with the company. Then the councils executive com- lic treasury to protect the vested Affirmative action recommended mittee passes on the legislative interests of capital. In the last de- by the examiner included that the committees findings, and finally pression, it was not until 1932 that the general body of the C. I. 0. the financiers demanded and secur- company, upon request, bargain collectively with the Oil Workers Council votes on whether to grant ed government from the Re- International as the exclusive repmoney or withhold endorsement. construction Finance Corporation resentative of the employes at the to bale out banks and railroad Glenrock refinery and in the Big The steel workers have been bondholders. This time, with the Muddy and Salt Creek fields. He singled out to illustrate this trend depression not six months old, and likewise recommended that proof the times, because of the strik- with Business shouting for duction employes of Continental in Big ingly rapid transition in steel com- government economy at the ex- the Salt Creek field be recognized pany towns from industrial and pense of the unemployed, the Wall as the unit bargaining there, exserfdom to and industrial political Street pack already is in full cry cluded the gas plant employes, who political democracy. for a government subsidy to the are not organized and have not afBut their experience can be mul- railroads sufficient to maintain infiliated with the Oil Workers local. tiplied a hundred times over in terest and dividends on railroad Under the examiners findings, every major industry and in every capital of some 24 billion dollars the company must withdraw all state of the nation. which, in terms of its actual ecoThe years 1936 and 1937, thanks nomic value, is not worth half of recognition from the Independent Association of Conoco-Glenroc- k Rethat amount. and from finery Employes any The New York Times has run given recognition heretofore P trial balloon stories advocating a group in the Salt Creek field as agencies The year 1938, it seems, as an government railroad subsidy to the for collective inevitable result, is going to mark tune of some 450 million bargaining and comdollars a the beginnig of real political free- year, and the Wall Street Journal pletely disestablish them as such. dom and independence for millions has endorsed a guarof American working people who antee of interest government Small kindness, small courtesies, on bonds. never realized their full democratic When subsidies are railroad small considerations, habitually proposed for rights before. socially useful projects such as practiced in our social intercourse low-cohousing, these organs of give a greater charm to the charSEEMS LIKE ONE big capital raise their voices in acter than the display of great horor. But a subsidy for bond- talents and accomplishments. M. holders is the next thing to a Wall A. Kelly. Teacher Tommy, can you give Street heaven. me an example of a paradox ? A bookless house is a poorly furStreets Peace Policy Tommy Yes sir. A man walkUntil nished one. Kathleen Mahon. has there been recently, ing a mile and only moving two little evidence" of even a relatively feet. We must get rid of the current unified point of view in Wall Street on specific, practical inter- belief that only- saps work. A former Heavenly Optimist, national questions. The conflict of Mary Elmer Barnes. gone crazy Satan, musing, Even- interests aroused by Japans attually Ill get most everybody tempt to gobble up China and thus The trouble with some books is, away from God. overthrow the American commer the covers are too far pro-Fasci- ! w-a- s cial position there, and by the penetration of South America has stood in the way of practical support of world Fascism. What has remained has been principally an expression of moral solidarity for the Fascist methods of bloody suppression of trade unions and of progressive political movements. Within recent weeks, however, there has developed a definite shift in support of the basic Fascist position, coinciding with the victory of the clique in the British government, the consea deal between quent drive tow-arEngland and Mussolini, the rape of Austria and the intensification of Fascist intervention in Spain. The open expression of this change in Wall Streets predominant point of view has, inevitably, taken the form of extreme isolaHoover tionism. Wall set for the style formally Street when, after inspecting Fascist leaders at first hand in Europe. he announced that Fascism was bad but that, under no circumstances, should the United States take effective measures in concert with other democratic powers to check its further spread throughout the world. But even before Herbies pronunciamento, the Wall Street Journal, which naturally keeps its ear to the ground in its neighborhood, had come out ostentatiously for complete isolationism, mainly on the ground that collec-- ( Continued on page 7) st d Ex-Presid- semi-offici- al n, self-conce- it, self-admiratio- n, ..." NEW YORK, (UNS) After prolonged negotiations deadlocked for four months by a dispute over terms, the National Maritime Union, C. I. 0. won its greatest victory in the maritime industry with the final successful conclusion of an agreement with the American steamship Owners Association. The Association represents 60 lines, including the major steamship companies. The agreement provides for preferential hiring of union members, maintains the present wage scale, and sets up grievance and arbitration machinery. Recognizing the N. M. U. as the sole bargaining agency, the company promises to do away with all company sponsored clubs. SEVENTY-TIIRE- E YEARS YOUNG PRINTER IS ACTIVE S. G. Darke, a member of Salt Lake Typographical Union No. 115, celebrated his 73rd birthday Friday, May 13, by setting up a string of type at the Tribune chapel that would put many a youngster to shame. Mr. Darke is a linotype operator on the Tribune, a situation he has held for many years. PRINTERS ELECT OFFICERS WEDNESDAY Notes, most interesting It cov- ers a lot of valuable information Members of the International that should know. every house-wif- e Typographical Union ballot for, in- I am sure that the women who ternational officers on Wednesday, read your paper appreciate this May 25. In Salt Lake City the department. Mrs. JI. L. M., Salt members of Local No. 115 will also Lage City. vote for local union officers. The ballot boxes will be at the Tribune-Telegra- A SUGGESTION chapel, and at the Secretarys chapel at 204 Atlas building. Editor Utah Labor News: My suggestion to all the democracy-lovin- g TYPO AUXILIARY folks in Utah is to become suba regular reader and paid-u- p WILL ENTERTAIN scriber to the Utah Labor News. It is a splendid paper and stands Womans Auxiliary No. 16 to up for the rights of the working Typographical Union No. 115 will people. With added subscribers it, entertain with bridge and 500 at no doubt, can be enlarged so that the home of Mrs. M. L. Hamson, it can cover a greater sphere of ac1086 South Fourth East street, on tivity. 0. F. R., Salt Lake City. m re-jo- ur st - apart. |