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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FEBRUARY 3, 1939 Page 7 Liogain and Caclhe Valley Welcomeo You Mead tlhe .A. lo far CONSUMER NOTES Freedom of the Press Is cased as as possible to guard against dirt and injury to the (Continued from page 6) Color and size of cranberries depend more on variety than quality. Of the common varieties 'the small dark red ones are a bit sweeter than the large bright red kinds." EXAMINE THE WRINGER ON WASHING MACHINES Safety first" should be your guide when you are deciding on the wringer on a new washing machine. A good wringer has a safety feed device as a protection against the fingers or clothes of the operator getting caught in the rollers, says the Consumers' Guide. Another safeguard is an automatic release that cuts the current and separates the rollers if the operators hand is caught or if too bulky fabrics put an excessive strain on the rollers. Reversible drainboards and rollers mean added efficiency for the operator. Balloon type rollers prevent injury to buckles and buttons, and do not subjectr the fabrics to as much wear as the hard rubber types. Power wrigers should be adjustable in different positions; ones should have adjustable clamps that hold the wringers firm. s All moving parts should be en- hand-operat- ed Subject to Various Influences LABOR COOPERATES WITH USHA CoopWASHINGTON, D. C. the with United States erating Housing Authority in an attempt to maintain prevailing low costs for construction of and low-rehousing projects, the Elizabeth (N. J.) Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers Union, Local No. 18, has agreed to waive its demands for a day on USHA projects, it was announced today by Walter V. Price, Director of Labor Relations of the USHA. In a letter to Mr. Price, Albert Moy, business agent of Local No. 18, stated that its members were day on prepared to work an all USHA projects with no demands for wage increases. He added: . . . We do not intend to use housing as a club with which to raise wages or shorten hours. . . . The local unions action is in line with a resolution adopted December 6, 1938, by the Elizabeth Building Trades Council of the American Federation of Labor, intended to obviate the possibility of any stoppage of work during construction of USHA low-rehousing projects. To date, Building Trades Councils in 85 other cities and 535 local unions have adopted similar resolutions, which provide : 1. That in case jurisdictional disputes arise on a USHA project, there shall be no stoppage of work until such time as the Building and Construction Trades Department of the A. F. L., the local Housing Authority and the USHA have had full opportunity to adjust the difference between the trades. 2. That wage rates in effect at the time work is commenced on such a project shall remain in effect until its completion. The Bricklayers union is seeking new agreements with contractors in Elizabeth to replace the existing standard of eight hours per day at $1.50 per hour with a seven-hoday at a higher hourly slum-clearan- ce nt 7-h- - nt Cache Valley Coal & Stoker Co. G. K. HANSON, Mgr. Friend of Labor GOLDEN GLOW COAL Union Mined in Utah Oil Treated Stoker Slack Phone 98 167 So. Main LOGAN, UTAH j Best Wishes to Labor ROYAL KNIGHT COAL CO. Utahs Cleanest, Hardest and Hottest , COAL Main : 7 BEST WISHES TO LABOR . ur rate. Union Mined Phone 37 Logan, Utah Sherwin Williams Paints and Products AMBROSE CALL, Mgr. Friend of Labor 147 So. Ask For and Eat Marvel Milk Bread Royal Bakery and Coffee Parlor MAX JOHNSON Wholesale and Retail Bread, Cakes and Pastry LOGAN, UTAH ing Pure Food and Drug Bill on the program of the New York State Federation of Womens Clubs. Against Unions In proof of his third accusation, Mr. Ickes stated that he had recently received a letter from RochWhen Secretary of the Interior Harold Ick.es, during his ester, N. Y., charging that the Gannett papers in that city had rerecent radio debate with Frank Gannett, newspaper publisher, fused to state the case of the strikexpressed his doubts regarding the freedom of the press, he but ing bakers in 1937. The Bakers voiced the opinions of organized labor in general. had then decided to run a paid ad, The unions have had long experience with the daily press but this was flatly refused by the in America, for, from the time they first began their struggle Gannett management. Yet just on page 8) to organize the workers they have felt the effects of public and capitalistic-miopinion as influenced by an employer-controlle- d Best Wishes to Labor nded The existing scale, however, will be maintained for work on USHA housing developments in Elizabeth, Mr. Price was assured by Mr. Moy. The city has a loan contract for unit $2,019,000 for a development and an outstanding earmarking for an additional 432-dwelli- ng $1,-481,0- 00. We realize, of course, and appreciate the work 'that our International officers have done to encourage housing, Mr. Moy wrote Director Price. Therefore, we do not intend to use housing as a club with which to raise wages or shorten hours. It is our intention to go along with the U. S. Housing Authority at the old scale of $1.50 per hour, eight hours per day. Any agreement we reach with our local contractors will not affect the U. S. Government Housing in Elizabeth, N. J." daily press. Whatever success labor unions have attained has been made in the face of the united opposition of the daily press, and while it may seem apparent that this opposition is not strong today, debate, had borrowed large sums of it still makes itself felt in many money from the International Palocalities. per and Power company, with Why Press Is Not Free which to finance the purchase of There are many angles in the the Knickerbocker Tress, the Al. case against the daily newspapers, bany Evening News and the Ithtca but Mr. Ickes limited himself to Journal-New- s. three chief accusations .against I ask you," he said, during the them, which are as follows: time that the paper and power 1. That they have financial af- company had a very large interest filiations, or are subject to finan- in the Gannett newspapers, wa3 cial pressure, which limits their Mr. Gannett free ? Was he free to freedom; discuss any question affecting the 2. That they are subject to the i wood pulp or the water power ininfluence of advertisers, causing dustry on its merits? Did he tell omission, distortion or improper readers, when he wrote editorials slanting of news and affecting against Government ownership of their editorial opinion; power, that he was in hock to the 3. That they are unfair to cer- power interests? .If Mr. Gannett tain groups of citizens, especially had not regarded this as a quesworkingmen, whose interests con- tionable connection, why was he in flict with those of the newspaper such a hurry to refinance after the or its financial backers or adver-tiser- Government disclosures?" Advertisers Influence Power Trust Influence In proof of his second accusaIn proof of his first statement, tion, that newspapers are subject Ickes cited the findings of the Fed- to the influence .of advertisers, Mr. eral Trade Commission, which re- Ickes said that advertiser influence sulted from its public utility in- was so well known that it hardly needs vestigation. The Commissions indiscussion." When the quiry showed that the power in- amended Pure Food and Drug Act terests used a $25,000,000 annual was introduced in Congress in 1933, propaganda fund with which to fill the advertising agencies of the newspapers with articles and edi- country sent out orders to newstorials hostile to Government own- paper publishers to get busy and ership of utilities and opposing kill the Act, he said, and the newspublic development of water power. papers vied with each other to see He emphasized the fact that M. H. which could show the most devoAylesworth, the man in charge of tion to the makers of impure drugs that fund, is no x? publisher of the and poisonous cosmetics." He also New York World Telegram. stated that Gannett himself had He also cited the findings of the published a full - page announceCommission, which showed that ment that his newspapers were Frank Gannett, his opponent in the placing a speaker against the pend- s. The conditions existing in Elizabeth are such that all building crafts, with the exception of theS bricklayers, have been working hours a day, and we felt that those trades which would follow the work of the bricklayers would be U. Q. LUMBER CO. Golden West, Electric Light, Red Rose, Calia Lily Flours and Feeds 122 E. Center Phone Logan 478-- W Best Wishes Carl IV. Sanders Insist on the Genuine" Union Mined COAL Castle Gate CATALYZED - Castle Gate DUSPRUF PHONE 293 804 NO. MAIN Best Wishes to Labor JOHNSON and MICKGLSOM GENERAL CONTRACTORS LOGAN, UTAH Books, Stationery, Wallpaper China and Glassware Established 1883 Phone with experience, engineering knowledge and personnel to handle job efficiently Equipped Wilkinson & Sons 149 No. Main. 126-- J LOGAN, UTAH J HARRIET RAYE PERSONALITY KNITS FIRST IN FASHION MANUFACTURERED BY UNION KNITTING MLLS CO. Wasatch Brand Sweaters, Jackets, Shirts, Underwear, Blankets Logan Maid" NAMES WPA LOGAN, UTAH ASSISTANT' V for Ask for Brands Welcome, Labor delayed in their work after the bricklayers quit for the day, which would make quite an increase in the cost of the projects to be erected in Elizabeth. We, therefore, requested the Bricklayers union of Elizabeth to take this into consideration and work on our housing projects 8 hours a day, the same as other crafts, without any increase in the hourly rate, the outcome being that they accepted our request." Explaining the desire that the Colonel F. C. Harrington, Works. existing scale be maintained for 7 said: Price Mr. Progress Administrator, has anUSHA construction, nounced the appointment of Howard O. Hunter as deputy adminiGREETINGS TO LABOR strator of WPA. Mr. Hunter, who has been assistant administrator and field representative in charge-o13 midwestem states, succeeds Aubrey Williams, who recently was LOGAN, UTAH named administrator of the NaCORPORATION INSURANCE DEPOSIT MEMBER FEDERAL tional Youth Administration. The deputy administrator will assume his new duties February 1. Mr. Hunter has been a field repBest Wishes to Our Fellow Laborers resentative in charge of relief and work relief activities in the middle SMITH BROS. LUMBER COMPANY west for five and a half years, UTAH LOGAN, serving in this capacity for the HYRUM, UTAH 5 Federal Emergency Relief AdminPhone Phone 19 and the Civil Works Adistration BETTER MODERN HOMES ministration as well as WPA. Operations in this region have been the from largest in WPA, employing numtotal of the cent 40 35 to per ber on WPA rolls. the Builder 99 Everything During the severe drouth throughout the Great Plains area in 1936, Mr. Hunter was in charge of the WPA program for this enBennetts Paints Better Homes tire area. Again in 1937 he personally diPHONE 36 rected emergency and rehabilitaBEST WISHES TO CACHE COUNTY LABOR tion measures following the disasOFFICE Yards: 349 No. Main St, Logan trous flood in tfte Ohio valley and along the upper Mississippi. First National Bank Central Milling Co. BEST WISHES TO LABOR CACHE VALLEY BANKING CO. LOGAN, UTAH f MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM A Bank of Strength and Character I Best Wishes to Organized Labor (Dsndlne EDecitH VaMIey (CaMnnpsnnny EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL V WE USE UNION LABOR TELEPHONE 53 27 NORTH MAIN LOGAN, UTAH |