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Show r Pise 6 UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, APRIL 21, 1939 Carbon County Invitee You Be Loyal To Utah Industries IBiLmm Otafra (Cnaft-Rea- d the Utah Lahor Nevo I Local 12107 I and Labor who will hear witnesses 'TCTWC HI PNT 1 A I agreement recognizes VivriTliVlCiil tf O ANTI rTIM collective as goje bargaining on amending the Wagner Act: PRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS I PLEA FOR WORLD PEACE Elbert D. Thomas, Utah. agency for its employees, sets up (Continued from page 5) David I. Walsh, Massachusetts. machinery for the adjustment of WYOMING C I. 0. CHIEF James F. Murray, Montana. grievances, provides for holidays (Continued from page 2) long to give every opportunity to COMPLETES WOUK and time and one-ha- lf for over-tim- ej Vic Donahey, Ohio. PACTS work a week, makes proRush D. Holt, West Virginia. assuming that substantial justice more by peaceful methods for a permanent peace. I therefore visions for seniority and recognizes will accrue to both; and it is cusClaude Pepper. Florida. Ray Maki, president of the the check-ofthat construe word suggest the you f. Two strong local and that Allen necessary tomary J. Ellender, Louisiana. they "future" to Union State Industrial apply to a minimum Wyomingand the officers unions were amicably organized at leave their arms outside the room Oklahoma. Josh Lee, Local of Council, period of assured nonaggression-1- 0 both a under where they confer. mutually Laramie, Lister Hill, Alabama. Union No. 12107 of District No. 50, years at the least a quarter of United the William agreement; agreeable E. Borah,-Idahojoint Cause of World Peace Mine Workers of America, a century, if we dare look that far Cement affiliatMonolith Workers M. La Follette, WisconRobert an have I am convinced that the cause of ahead. agreement ed with the just completed Mill and Smelt sin. I Products Forest the I world peace would be greatly adTreating If such assurance is given by Tnd the lie Treating James J. Davis, Pennsylvania. vanced if the nations of the world your government, I will Immediate- HrJi emntovS. affiliated the with Robert A. Taft, Ohio. The were to obtain a frank statement ly transmit it to the governments I plant. Mine of United Workers America, Every local union in the country relating to the present and future of the nations I have named and two great C. I. O. international should send wires, letters and peti-tinof governments. policy quire whcth: STATE MINIMUM. unions. Wyoming Labor Journal. to these senators, reminding . Because the United States, as irw as 1 am reasonably I one of the nations of the western of the nations enumerated above I WAGE LAWS them that American labor wants ACT NOW TO DEFEND the Wagner Act left unchanged. hemisphere, is not involved in the will in turn give like assurance for which transmission to you. immediate Communications should be adLABOR RELATIONS LAW controversies need for both State and The to the committee members dressed have arisen in Europe, I trust that Would Bring Relief minimum-wag- e is laws Federal a such be to make Senate Office Building, the at you may willing The Senate which hearings Reciprocal assurance such as I shown in Bulletin 167 of the Womstatement of policy to me as the have (Continued on page 7) outlined will bring to the en's Bureau of the United States opened April 11 will produce a head of a nation far removed from of smokescreen world an immediate measure of re Department of Labor, made public propaganda against Europe in order that I, acting only the A Welcome, Labor. We AppreLabor Relations Act Wagner Miss director with the responsibility and obliga- lief. by Mary Anderson, od done a has I which. is law. mre it two that if propose 0f the Bureau. The report, pregiven, ciate Your Patronage tion of a friendly intermediary, for labor and the country than al-- b essential problems shall promptly pared by Florence P. Smith, declaration such communicate gives I most may discussed in the resulting peace a detailed compilation of "State any other legislation on the to other nations now apprehensive I PATS SUPREME books. I in and dis those Minimum surroundings, Laws and which the policy as to the course Wage Orders," cussions the Behind the smokescreen, prepargovernment of the as of December, 1938. of your government may take. SERVICE United States will gladly take part. ations are made the laws real for State broad cover being a usually Asks Assurance CONOCO PRODUCTS The discussions which have in group of industries, as compared offensive of reaction, which is diAre you willing to give assur- mind relate to the most I effective rected labor all NATIONAL TIRES effective with Federal the Act which covers against ance that your armed forces will and immediate manner and break to rethrough interstate the organization designed industries, only not attack or invade the territory which the Washing Greasing peoples of the world can port shows. Also, under the state down the wages and better or possessions of the following in- obtain Phone 310 progressive relief from the laws, the wage rates are generally tions which the unions have won. Helper, Utah dependent nations: Finland, Esto- crushing burden of armament higher than the The drive to amend the Wagner minimum Main Highway at Spring Lithuania, Sweden, which is each day nia, Latvia, bringing them now in effect under the Federal Act is inteded to deprive workers Norway, Denmark, the Nether- more closely to the brink of eco Act. Nine Canyon. Junction in every 10 of the wage of the right to organize in unions lands, Belgium, Great Britain and nomic I disaster. Simultaneously rates set under state minimum-wag- e of their own choosing, so that they Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain, the government of the United laws are than 25 cents may be unprotected against Luxemhigher Switzerland, Liechtenstein, States would be prepared to take an hour, and more than 7 in every attacks on their wages andcoming workRuPoland, Hungary, burg, in discussions looking toward 10 are at least 30 cents an hour, ing conditions. part Bulmania, Jugoslavia, Russia, the most practical manner of open- the rate which will go into effect Welcome, Fellows It therefore becomes urgent for garia, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, the ing up avenues of international under the Fair Labor Standards labor and all friends of labor to Arabias, Syria, Palestine, Egypt trade to the end that every nation Act next October. mobilize their resistence without and Iran? j of the earth may be able to buy On minithe other state hand, must delay. assurance clearly .Such an and sell on equal terms in the mum-wag- e laws have been enacted not only to the present day Wagner Act Defense Commitas bSt abo to a future sufficiently world marke Pssess by only 25 states, the District of tees have already been set up in Everything for the Sportsassurance of obtaining the ma: Columbia, and Puerto Rico, where industrial man. Blacker the Fish Better many centers, through terials and products of peaceful as the Federal Act covers the en- which C. I. A. F. L. O., and other the Day for Fishing economic life. tire country. unions join hands with progressive Problems in Workers in Complex agriculture and organizations of all kinds for the Plumbing and Heating At the same time those gov- household service are excluded campaign. But active committees Electrical Supplies ernments other than the United from the Federal law. Though. 8 of this kind are now needed in States which are directly interest- - state laws permit coverage of do-e- d every center of population. Phone J could undertake such political I mestic service, only one state, Mass meetings should be called Helper, Utah as they may consider I cnsm, applies its minimum-wag- e without to delay impress on all I aw to household workers, and in Senators and Congressmen that the necessary or desirable. Jaw ?lied to agri people back home are aroused by We recognize complex problems 5, I the which affect all humanity but we on the Wagner more than 2,000,000 Act. Present attacks know that study and discussion of womenemployed m the United States at the Resolutions should be adopted, them must be held in an atmo- 1930 census. atmo Such an of Headquarters for Labor in petitions circulated, delegations orpeace. sphere in Utah neInjunction cannot if of exist ganized and everything else possipeace sphere PRICE AND HELPER In most minimum-wag- e gotiations are overshadowed by the states, ble done to let Congress know, threat of force or by the fear of the bulletin shows, wage rates are while the hearings are being held, fixed industry by industry after that labor and all progressives are war. I think you will not misunder investigations of prevailing wages, insistent that the present act be A stand the spirit of frankness in cost of living in the state, and so defended against all amendments. The Committee which I send you this message forth. A total of 108 different These are the members of the Heads of great governments in this wage orders had been issued by hour are literally responsible for December, 1938, in 19 states and Senate Committee on Education the fate of humanity in the coming the District of Columbia. A flat years. They cannot fail to hear the rate is provided in the laws of Ar- Welcome, Labor Nevada, South Dakota and prayers of their peoples to be pro- kansas, Highest B.T.U. Lowest Ash at Soldier Summit Stop tected from the foreseeable chaos Puerto Rico. No minimum-wag- e Order Today From of war. History will hold them ac- rates had yet been ordered under BOGIES CAFE minimum-wage the laws of YOUR DEALER countable for the lives and the hapKansas, Try Our Coffee Lake Dealers Salt piness of all even unto the least. Kentucky and Louisiana. Court inKens Service prevented enforcement of I hope that your answer will junctions Modern Harker Coal Co., Was. 7251 Rest Rooms Strictly in Oklahoma and Utah. make it possible for humanity to orders Stanolind Gas, ep 20 Deer Cr. Coal Co., Was. 2068 88, The minimum-wage of history lose fear and regain security for We Never Close laws this in a country began only many years to come. : quarter century ago, when Massachusetts enacted the first such law for women in 1912. Although sevWelcome, C. I. O. eral states passed laws in the folBEST WISHES DANCE lowing years, more than half of them became inactive after a SuEvery Saturday and Holiday Beer on Tap preme Court decision in 1923 declared the District of Columbia law Hi-Wa- y Cabaret unconstitutional. CARBON COUNTY RECORDER The reversal of this decision in March, 1937, led to an expansion of minimum-wag- e laws in the states, WELCOME, C. I. O. followed by the enactment in 1938 BEST WISHES, FELLOWS of the Federal Fair Labor StandMARTINELLI GARAGE ards Act. Today the states withSTATE BRIDGE SERVICE out minimum-wag- e laws for wom-- Tires - Service en Repairing Overhauling Towing comprise the three important industrial states Michigan, Indiana, PHONE 300 CARBON COUNTY SURVEYOR HELPER, UTAH and Missouri; a solid block of certain middle Atlantic and southern states, some of which have considerable manufacturing; and other Best Wishes to C. I. O. for a Happy Convention BEST WISHES largely agricultural states. 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