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Show ' Visit Bingham TRESPASSING AT THE CAPITAL (Continued from page 1) give the committee an additional $100,000. In its three years the committee has received a total of $150,00Q; which has been used up, as compared with $125,000 the Dies Committee has already received from the75th and 7Cth Congress and is asking for $50,000 more, or with the $720,000 already received by the monopoly investigating committee which is asking for $480,-00- 0 more. With the money gone, the La Follette committee is completing reports on the Associated Industries of Cleveland, the National Association of Manufacturers and on citizens committees set up by employers. If the appropriation is received, the committee will be able to go through with its investigation of oppressive labor practices on the west coast which lack of funds is 'holding up. The National Grange, INDEPENDENT GROCERY Bing. 193 Welcome, Labor CLUB Union Made Beer on Tap Copperfield Phone Bing. 374 Vauns Confectionery Service Refreshments Accessories Gas - Oil - amount and at various times had or more spies in its ,60 odd plants, reporting on union members and meetings in order to break up unions and discharge leading members. g agenLeading cies, in addition to the detective agencies investigated by the committee, are such organizations as the National Metal Trades Association, and Associated Industries of Cleveland that have as their main function the hiring of professional strike breakers, a large percentage of whom have police records, to break strikes called against their members. Among detective agencies making a business of furnishing armed guards who act as strike breakers, Railway Audit and ' Inspection National Corporation Company, 200 Bums ...Detective Service and lead. Bums alone the Agency take grossed $329,368.82 during four Supplies' Phone 6, strike-breakin- INTERNATIONAL Copperton 37-- W the A. F. L., C. I. O. and countless others, have demanded this investigation which would also include the notorious Associated Farmers. No less than 28 volumes of hear ings, comprising 10,878 pages of verbal testimony and documentary exhibits, have been published by the committee. It has made de tailed reports of its findings both to the 75th and 76th Congress, each set of reports - comprising three volumes. High spots of the committees work and substance of its findings are: Industrial espionage, spying on labor unions and individual workers, is a major racket today en gaged in by leading employers di rectly or through the agency of de tective agencies. The committee investigated specifically five important detective agencies and uncovered 3871 individual labor spies, discovering that during 1933-193inclusive, 1475 corporations and businesses in the United States were clients of detective agencies engaging in industrial espionage. Of these employers, 2833 of them, according to the committees rec- years from industrial guard serv- Welcome and Best Wishes to Bingham Miners ice. The OIL WORKERS UNION WINS CONTINENTAL CO. ELECTION IN WYOMING Special to the Utah Labor News since that date. Several elections CASPER, Wyo. The Oil Work were held under the Petroleum ers International Union, affiliated Labor Policy Board. Particularly with the Congress of Industrial noticeable among these being the Organizations, will be certified as winning of an election by the union the exclusive agency for collective in Glenrock by a big majority and bargaining for all employes of the the same in Big Muddy. Also the Continental Oil company in the union lost an election to a com production department, Salt Creek pany union in the Salt Creek field field, except for foremen and of- about the same time. Despite the fice men. choice shown by its employes in In an election held in Columbine elections and in other ways the May 24, the Continental employes, company absolutely refused to recby a very close margin, chose to ognize the union and has definitely be represented by the Oil Workers discriminated in various ways International Union in future ne- against union members. The Boards order brings about a new gotiations with the company. According to F. T. Frisbey, dis- regime. Conoco is going to have trict representative for the union, to obey the law. Corporations are this positive action makes 100 per still subject to the laws of the cent fulfillment of the boards de- United States, opinions to the concision and order handed down May trary notwithstanding. The Oil Workers 9, which provides that the ContiInternational nental Oil company shall bargain Union, in the 1936 convention offi with the Oil Workers International dally placed the Continental Oil Union as the exclusive representa- company on its We Do Not Pat tive of its Salt Creek prouction em- ronize list where it still remains ployes, contingent upon the union to this date and will continue until winning an election. The rest of such time as the company chooses the boards order directed the com- to obey the law and deal fairly pany to deal with the union in Big with its employes. Muddy field and in the Glenrock refinery and to reinstate F. D. Moore UNEMPLOYED and Ernest Jones, former Continental employes, to their jobs in IN HISTORY the Big Muddy oil field with full pay for time lost, deducting thereEditor Utah .Labor News: The from any amounts they may have is very largely a earned in the. meantime. Jones and depression term for legal ex Moore have been off the company's complimentary ploitation. payroll since the spring of 1937. ,How history tabulates the unemA. W. Warner, regional director have been the foreployed: for the National Labor Relations runners, They the for civilizaBoard, 22nd region, had not been tion. In everypreparers in island, every coninformed as ,to whether or not the tinent under the sun they went on company intended to appeal the de ahead with few clothes, few tools cision of the Board. If the com- and faced the disease, starvation, pany does not choose to comply, elements, the savages. They subthe Board will appear before the U. dued the wilderness, built their S. circuit court of appeals and ask homes, plowed planted for a court order for enforcement seeds, grew the ground, hand By they crops. of the Boards decision. After such the first irrigation ditches. dug an order is secured, violation of the They were the first to dig minerals order will be considered contempt from the bowels of the earth. In of court and punishable as such wars all they have furnished more This decision and election culmi men in the front lines in the field nates a long battle waged by the of battle than any other class of Oil Workers Union against the arrived civilization When Continental Oil company. The bat- people.did most of the work on the they tle began in early 1934 and has smallest pay, but paid the highest been waged with varying success interest and tax rates. Naturally committees investigations of Harlan County coal fields and Republic Steel Company police Bogan Hardware force activities disclosed wholesale NEWS AND COMMENT terror and denials of civil liberties Company imposed on entire communities by hired thugs, many of whom are on (Continued from page 2) Your Friends local city and county payrolls. . Textile Workers Organizing ComSporting Goods, Stationery, mittee and the United Textile Novelties, Tinning and Senator Reynolds of North Car- Workers Union of America, fur-- j Plumbing, Paints, Oil, Glass olina says that we are being preju- nishing a living testimony of the diced against Hitler and Mussolini. validity and vitality of the C. I. O. 449 Main St. Phone 149 Reynolds, undoubtedly, would like) program for organizing the unorBINGHAM, UTAH to soften historys treatment of ganized. The 750 convention delegates Nero, Ivan the Terrible, and Rascame from north and south, from putin the Monk. . . . east and west, from every textile center in the country. Such a large . BEST WISHES TO LABOR and representative meeting of textile workers was never before posFRANCIS QUINN, Agent sible in the whole history of the FISHER BEER DISTRIBUTOR COPPERFIELD PHONE BINGHAM 24 UNITED MINE WORKERS WILL APPEAL FROM COMMISSION RULING J. Bingham Mercantile Co. Phone 14 Dependable Service - 15 BINGHAM, UTAH Groceries Hardware - Crockery - Furniture - Trunks and Valises Dry Goods - Shoes - Mens Furnishing Goods two-to-o- ne ng Best Wishes to Bingham Miners 4 '. i r Ask for Budveiser or Deckers Beer Made by Union Labor SAE.-n- E Your Guarantee of Fair Practice Chevrolet Sales and Service . CITIZENS COAL a SUPPLY CO. VICO PEP 88 BINGHAM, CANYON, UTAH Best Wishes to Labor Bingham Mortuary 'A sincere desire to be of service in your time of need 450 Main Phone 17 7 Welcome, Fellows Chipisns Feed Store Successors to BINGHAM GROCERY NO. 2 Phone 346 Main & Markham Bingham Canyon, Utah Home-Owne- d Friends of Labor Welcome, Miners Your Home-Owne- d Store ' - Wells Groceteria Binghams Popular Quality Food Store Uptown Shopping Center Phone 63 Bingham Canyon . Welcome, Labor When in Bingham Enjoy the Best Coffee made With Coleman Electric Brew Sturms- Cafe LET COPPER COAL & LUMBER CO. SUPPLY YOUR BUILDING NEEDS , 235 MAIN BINGHAM PHONE 80 Our Best Wishes to Bingham Miners Bingham Canyon Clinic Hospital Biimglhainni GaragePhone Everything for the AUTO Phone 88 Super-Servi- ce Hudson Terraplane Friend of Labor Adderley and Ilichols International Trucks 88 Chrysler Plymouth 87 Main Street Bingham, Utah j 9 Wishing Success to Lark Miners Local No. 91 Um CaERCAMYBLE Meats and General Merchandise; Mining Supplies STANDARD GARAGE Phone 39 Union Mined A OUR BEST WISHES TO THE MINERS OF BINGHAM District 22, United Mine Workers of America has served notice on the Utah state industrial commission that its recent decision holding locked out coal. miners to be ineligible for unemployment benefits would be appealed to the Utah su- preme court. The notification was sent by mail to the commission . by President John M. Ross of the District union. its The commission rendered de- usual buck-passicision, holding that coal miners, under provisions of the Utah com- -j pensation law, are not eligible for compensation when on strike. Commissioners McShane and Jugler agreed on the majority decision, and Chairman Knerr holding in a dissenting opinion that the miners were entitled to the compensation. when employment ceased, they were the first to be disposessed. If somewhere in the five oceans there should arise an island as large as the U. S., who would volunteer to go there and face the hardships? The unemployed, of course. Let us recognize them they are entitled to a true representation in our Congress, both State and National, if not, then our democracy becomes a question mark. CLARENCE EKLUND,' Buffalo, BEST WISHES TO LABOR y BEST WISHES TO BINGHAM MINERS 3 Page the Ads In the Utah Labor Nevs Canyon-Re- ad ords, spent $9,440,132.15 for espionage, strikebreaking and industrial munitioning. General Motors alone spent $994,855.68 of this Best Wishes to Labor Copperfield-Pho- ne UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. JUNE 2. 1939 UNION MINED COAL Phone Lark, Utah 502-J-- l W. J. FAHRNI FRIEND OF LABOR v I |