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Show p s Ixlevriiovv 2 CTUHnrenut -- ' Exreirato 'i EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. MARC VOL X; NO. 36 n ro b L) Labors Peace Parley To Continue Meets In New York Beginning Friday Night .LPd A.F.L. LOCALS JOIN DRIVE (Union News Service) Official SAN MATEO, Cal. unions L. A. of F. representatives in five California counties were on record this week to preserve the Wagner Act from the amendments offered by the federations executive council. Their resolution came out flatly against amending the act. The representatives, numbering 80 in all, were attending the Five Counties Legislative Conference, provision for which was made at the annual convention of the states federation of labor. Support New Deal Locals in San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Benito, Monterey and Santa Cruz counties sent delegates to the meeting. E. J. Darns, business agent of the Santa Clara County Central Labor Council, presided. Other actions taken by the group called for support of Governor OPresilsons New Deal program dent William Green of the A. F. L. had endorsed Olsons Tory opponent and for resumption of unity negotiations between A. F. L. and C. I. O. Arrangements were made Wednesday by negotiators for the C I. O. and the A. F. L to transfer the peace conferences to New York, where the conferences will be resumed Friday night to consider the C. I. O. proposal to unite all American labor in a new American Congress of Labor." The announcement was made by Harry C. Bates, chairman of the A. F. L. committee. The statement said : "The conference made a preliminary canvass of its problems and met briefly with Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. "The conference agreed to recess and meet in New York City at 8 p. m. Friday, March 0, at which time consideration will be given to the proposals made by the C. I. O. or to any other suggestions that may be laid before us." President John L. Lewis of the C. I. O. Tuesday submitted a proposal for settling organized labor's difficulties and uniting the A. F. L, the C. I. O. and four independent railroad brotherhoods. It was proposed that a special meeting of the three groups held be in Washington before June 1 to organize an American Congress of Labor." Neither C. I. O. President Lewis nor A. F. L. President William Green would be eligible for election to office in the pro LABOR UNION posed new organization. The plan proposes separate national A. F..L. conventions OFFERS A to be held between April 5 and 30 to act on the proposal. It also suggested that President Roosevelt be invited to REMEDY preside at the opening national convention of the proposed Eveprworker who has'gonr'fmt American Congress or Labor. on strike, who has walked a picket line or who has been the victim of n has or a a lock-o1 six-poi- nt 1 Legislature Is Working On Its Sixtieth Day ut At midnight on Thursday, March 9, was the deadline for Utah the State Legislature to be legally in session, but the clocks were stopped and the lawmakers continued making laws and pretended that it was still Thurs parties. day when Friday dawned. It will Democrat or Republican Neither party can win in Utah be the same Saturday and perhaps (Continued on page 3) Sunday. It is the usual custom of Utah legislators. The legislators are sure to earn their $4 per for the 60th day. Many important bills are still to be acted upon. It is expected that the appropriations bill will be used as a whip to bring out some of the important bills from the sifting committee for the consideration of the legislators. The solons will have to do some tall hustling to enact worth-whil- e laws or else go down in history as the do nothing" legislature. The Utah Labor News will give a review of the work of the legislature as it pertains to labor and other liberal legislation. The review will show how the solons voted on the various labor and progressive measures. At the rate they have been going the legislators have merely and neglected the interests of the people of Utah. This session compares favorably with that of 1929, which was one of the most reactionary ones in Utahs history. The G. 0. P. had the whip hand in 1929. This session proves that there is no difference between a Tory Republican and a Tory Democrat. The combination of the two makes a first class Repocrat. The lobbyists have been thicker than ever before in this session. There have been the representatives of special interests, individual interests, and every other type of lobbyists that you may be able to name. dilly-d- allied NOTES FROM UTAH STATE LEGISLATURE By UARDA McCARTY Fixing by both legislative branches of $400,000 as the states biennial contribution to the teach ers retirement fund. Passage by the lower house of bills providing for local option by counties, cities and towns; educational study; women's eight-hoday; marble machine regulation; repeal of the average monthly inventory law; setting up of medical cooperatives and for amendment of the constitution to permit split legislative sessions. Approval by the senate of measures to appropriate $25,000 for a study of occupational diseases; to increase the mark-u- p price of liquors and wines; to put the state highway patrol under civil service, and to place health departments of first and second class cities under civil service. ur Kill a Good Bill Killing by the senate of a bill proposing to tax natural gas and a measure to raise the mine occupation tax. Out of a melange of nearly 90 bills approved by either the upper or lower house last week these are considered outstanding in importance to the state at large. Only the teachers retirement one measure won the approval of both NO CREDIT TO branches. OLD PARTIES Up to Saturday night, with sine die adjournment but four days The 23rd session of the State away, the legislators had acted (Continued on page 2) Legislature is no credit to either by the house of , - Prices 5 Cents Per Copy 1939 uo Indictment Against Interstate Chains Legislators, take note! Here are a number of direct indictments against the interstate chain ssytem: They are the products of a few monopolistic money mas- ters of Manhattan. Cost of food is higher in chain-controlle- towns and com- d munities. They do not contribute to local relief, local schools, churches, or charities, except a miserly sum entirely out of proportion to their business in an effort to buy goodwill. They break down local rent schedules by destroying the independent merchant. They compel our boys and girls to work for absentee owners for long hours at starvation wages. They crush out labor, as monopoly invariably does. They are draining capital from local towns. that built They destroy the independence and this State and Nation. They do not create. They take away what others have created. They never guarantee a doctor bill for an unfortunate emself-relian- ce ployee. They take away local privileges and opportunities that formerly enabled local citizens to assume local relief assistance and (Continued on page 4) BETWEEN THE ONES Publicity Director, Labors Non-Partis- an League. shut-dow- longed for the time when there would be a better way to settle differences between employer and employee. He has always felt that there ought to be some better way. Out of thi sdeep desire has come plan after plan. Many of these plans have been purely imaginary and have been of little or no practical value. Some of them have been worthwhile but for some reason or other could not make any headway. Perhaps the time was not ripe. Now comes a Federal labor official who states quite confidently that the time is near at hand when all labor disputes will be settled by arbitration and conferences. The official who speaks with such assurance is the associate general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, Robert D. Watts. Recently he pointed to the work of the Board and voiced his predictions as to labor trends in the future. Mr. Watts defends quite naturally the work and record of the NLRB and insists that it has shown no preference to any labor or industrial group. Incidentally, he said that union membership has tripled since the labor act was passed. increase has preThis three-fol- d vailed in all sections of the nation, Watts says. With particular reference to the arbitration and conference prediction there are millions of workers who could wish no better break than the elimination of any necessity of a Tesort to strike. Labor has faith in arbitration when it is conducted on a mutual basis where labor is amply represented. Certainly labor has faith in the conference table. Whether or not we can foresee the time when the strike will be no longer necessary is beyond our vision, or rather beyond our willingness to predict. There ought to be no strike, of course, just as there ought to be no crime and no other wrong doing. We can predict with all confidence that the labor union movement does offeT a program and a platforrti that will eliminate the necessity of strikes. WASHINGTON The attack by employers and their conservative allies in Congress upon the National Labor Relations Act is now getting up full steam. The obstacle in the path of these enemies of labor is that the members of the Labor Committee, both House and Senate, understand the real issues involved. Anti-LabSenators and Congressmen may, over the radio, make out what seems like a good How does that all add up ? or argument against the National Labor Relations Board or the law, but experienced members of the Congressional Committees easily see through these superficial speeches. Moreover, members of both committees are learning that there is overwhelming popular support for the Board and the Act. The next three weeks will perhaps be decisive in the fight between labor forces and those who are seeking to prevent or' destroy labor organization. A Busy Bird The Democratic party has .been trying to pull its battling factions together for something like harmonious action in this session of Congress. Every time the dove of peace tries to settle on the Democratic party some embattled reactionary like Congressman Cox , of Georgia gets out the shotgun and tries to riddle the homeless bird. What with the Democratic leadership wooing the dove and President Roosevelt inviting it to end labor differences, this dove of peace May Americanize Dies is a busy bird in Washington this new came out of the Something Dies Committee this week. Con- week. gressman Jerry Voorhis, newly selected member of the Committee, Answer to Housing introduced in Congress legislation It seems that by. accident which would interfere with the or- have perhaps found a partial anganization and activities of Nazi swer to the housing problem. Governmental authorities and labor groups in the United States. While this was supposed to be leaders interested in finding a way the purpose of the Dies Committee, to provide decent homes for Amerithe chairman who was in fact the can farmers and workers are all whole committee was very careful excited over the results of the Fort not to do anything that would of- Wayne housing experiment. fend American adherents of the It seems that homes, fairly livFuehrer and the Duce. Congress- able, have been constructed there man Voorhis action indicates that at a price Which permits rental of the Dies Committee may become a four room residence at $2.50 per Americanized. week. The figures indicate 'that the plan could not be carried on on a very wide basis at this low cost. A Riddle Here is a riddle for the Ameri- Nevertheless, the idea, with some can public. The United States Con- adaptation, could be used all over gress applauded Congressman Dies the United States with a cost very in his plea for continuance of his little more than in the Fort Wayne Committee. The United States experiment. The success of the exCongress vigorously applauded periment may accelerate the whole Congressman Martin of Colorado United States housing program. this week when he attacked the Nazi Bund meeting in New York. Relief Question The big relief question in WashCongressman Martin indicated that those who received the Nazi Bund ington now is how Senators and approval were anything but praise- Congressmen may get relief from worthy American citizens. Con- the effects of their votes against the President's program on the gress applauded that too. Among those given a favorable WPA appropriation. demonstration at the Nazi Bund Labors League (Continued on Page 4) meeting was Congressman Dies. - Non-Partis- an |