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Show UTAH LABOR. NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE 16, 1939 Bo Ogdlemi MINERS WILL MEET IN OGDEN (Continued from page 1) According to the call all resolutions are to be sent in to the district office from the local unions to reach the district office at least five days before the convening of the convention, and if not received within the time limit they cannot be introduced except by majority consent of the delegates. Cool Moot-t- same gas to all, delivered from the same pipe lines. The huge dis NEWS AND COMMENT crepancy in rate between domestic (Continued from page 2) and industrial consumers is self evident. Roosevelt, with a woeful disregard Page RfliLraoira HH of Mayfield, Kentucky, The prod- demonstration of assistance from ucts of both factories are on the other newspaper unions. When unfair list. managing editor of the News wrote a story saying that the printers had to fight their way through UNITED WE STAND" Guild picket lines, linotype operThe recent convention of the ators refused to set the copy. The Missouri State Federation of La- editor had to revise his story and bor, A. F. L., held at Springfield, tell the truth. adopted a United We Stand" resolution which declared to go on SENATORS PLEDGE SUPPORT record as favoring a united trade TO CASEY BILL union movement including the A. F. L. and the C. I. O., which will Support of leading New Deal solidify labors ranks, restore pub- Senators for the Casey-Murra- y bill lic confidence and sympathies in (Continued on page 4) the American labor movement, and enable them to continue their march toward their goal of eco A A Personal Invitation for industrial You to Visit nomic, political and emancipation, and that the committee representing the A. F. L. SMITHSONIAN and the C. I. O. be advised of this BUSINESS COLLEGE action." for the facts. Bituminous coal mined in the U. S. is shipped all around the world. LEAGUE Cuba, Brazil and China appear in SUPPORTS H. R. 6470 the latest export trade monthly re port as destination points of size Labors League has able amounts of American bitumi endorsed and is giving hearty supnous. port to the bill introduced by Representative Joseph E. Casey (H. R. A TRIBUTE TO A 6470) to provide a planned work GREAT LABOR LEADER program for the 1940 fiscal year. FACTS ABOUT COAL Terms of the Casey bill provide I Franklin, the noted New a program of employment for Jay INDUSTRY Deal newspaper columnist, pays persons. It calls for apthe following tribute to John L. of $2,250,000,000 the propriation The latest and the most sensa- Lewis: same amount WPA is spending in Take the simple facts of what the current year. tional discovery in the field of new uses is the synthetic silk thread, o ' has happened in the coal industry! Several important new points are which coal is the basic ingredient, It was an impressive disciplined embodied in the Casey bill: and which is goingtomake possi demonstration of business acumen Provision is made that employCongressman Reuben T. Wood, 2437 Vi Kiesel Av. Ph. 2867 ble the manufacture of hosiery in and industrial power the biggest ment on WPA shall not be reduced president the Missouri State of OGDEN distinguishable in appearance from labor victory on record in the coun- below 3,000,000 while that number I Federation of Labor, presiding at It leaves L. John Lewis as the remain eligible for such work. The the real silk but with greater elasticity try. Under New Management Springfield convention, felt and strength. The du Pont com head of a union of 600,000 miners, means test, which requires the I proud because the Unity resolution Summer Classes Starting pany is now constructing huge controlling the key commodity of eligible unemployed to pauperize was adopted without a single dis manufacturing plants for this pur- American industry. It leaves Mr. themselves as a condition of em-- 1 senting vote, JUNE 19 pose, and this new hosiery will be Lewis sitting on top of the labor ployment, is eliminated. Positions for Graduates world, one of the strongest polition the market next year. Monthly wage rates are fixed at cal and economic figures in Amer- a minimum of $36 and the WPA is The Wonder World of Chemis ica. further authorized and directed to From now on, all political cal- make such upward revisions in try" exhibits at the San Francisco culations Striking members of the Amer-monthl-y must be revised sharply. and New York World Fairs, conas may be necessary ican pay Newspaper Guild, C. I. O., won tain many marvels in which coal is The war against the C. I. O. has to enable such persons to maintain a quick Pictures of Dad Sunday, victory when the chatta. the basic ingredient. One is Ny been lost and the political power a standard of living compatible June 18, Will Be Priceless News a con, (Tenn signed n00ga Ion," the first man made organic of the New Deal has been immeas with decency and health. Hourly I tract and reinstated two discharged textile fiber developed wholly from urably strengthened. If you doubt wage rates are fixed at 30 cents, Mail Us Your Films The walkout lasted only empi0yes. raw materials from the mineral that, think what would have been the prevailing rate, or wage-hou- r one-yeThe four agreedays kingdom; and which is to be util- said and done had Lewis lost his law minimums, whichever is the ment covers Guild members only Satisfaction Guaranteed with the ized for the manufacture of syn- fight operators." Roll Developed and 1 Print but economy against Another is thetic silk hosiery. The bill continues the sound pnn- - firi guarantees Each cuts in the white or p Production of bituminous coa ciple of providing work for at least lucite, a transparent substance rt collar departments of the newspa-pawith peculiar optical of the unemployed and thus1 Good Negatives ...25c qualities, for the week ending May 27 capable of carrying light around amounted to 6,150,000 tons, which helps to avoid the dry rot of idleeach 3c size Reprints, any Establishment bends; a third is Neoprene," a was 826,000 more than in the cor- ness on the dole. of the program for a full year synthetic rubber made from coal, responding week, a yqar ago. Bring Father Out ahead makes possible more careful A limestone and salt. Southern Fried Chicken The average weekly earnings of planning of work projects. Crisp French Fried Potatoes The bituminous coal industry bituminous coal miners is $23,27, Unemployment remains the most Hot Buttered Rolls and Jelly, dolthe to latest million 128 our serious of according published society. facing problem upwards spends f La-jSalad or Vegetable S. U. Bureau of of the and This bill meets the issue squarely lars annually for supplies report ALL FOR 60c month the Statistics terms on which a and covering OGDEN, UTAH proposes equipment. of January. The average hourly constructive program of public JOES CHICKEN INN Remember This, Please Wages to labor is $1.27 in the earnings is at the rate of 88.3 works and aid for the unemployed North of City Limits Just Tell Your Friends About Us case of a ton of bituminous coal; cents, a new peak. may be put into effect. It is the Ogden, Utah Highway 91 m , a,J that Congress 68 cents in the fuel oil equivalent very - minimum bituminous 8 Truck mines where do. should coal of a ton of (4 barrels); cents in the natural gas equivalent coal is hauled to market by motor of a ton of coal (20,000 cubic feet) ; ;ruck rather than by rail, are said CCC AND MERIT less than one cent in the hydro' to have an aggregate annual out- CLOTHING ARE Welcome, Fellows Your Patronage Appreciated electric power equivalent to a ton put of 30 million tons. SCAB MADE SMITH BROTHERS CO. of coal (2000 KWH). That is why The contract new substitute recently coal wage of GENERAL MERCHANDISE GROCERY by The Curlee Clothing of St. Louis displacement fuels contributes so greatly to un- concluded with the United Mine has been fighting organized labor GAS AND OIL Workers of America (John L. for 34 and therefore its prodemployment. UTAH years PHONE OGDEN 4 SUNSET, Lewis C. I. O.) in the anthracite ucts are on the We Dont PatronAnnual production of bituminous coal industry contains the union ize" list of organized labor coal, if divided equally among the shop" clause making union mem throughout the nation. 125 million men, women and chil- bership a condition of employWELCOME The Curlee also owns and oper- A dren in continental United States, ment. This duplicates for the an- ates the Merit Clothing company THE NEW HEALY HOTEL would give each of them three tons thracite mines the closed shop in obtained the which Lewis wage or more every year. Rather than to subscribe to a hisDispensers of True Western Hospitality and Friends of Labor agreements in the bituminous torical OPPOSITE UNION DEPOT, OGDEN, UTAH more impormyth it is far Natural gas, according to the mines. of EARL W. FOLKMAN, Manager welfare to tant the permanent published reports of the American available the best our that country The importation of foreign oil Gas Association is supplied to docandidate be chosen. That should in barrels to at users 50,000,000 commercial and amounting mestic and will be done. . niiiiiitiiaiiiiiiiimiaiiiiiiiiiiiiDHiiiiiiiiiiQiiniiiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiBiiiiiiiiiiiioiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiimiiiiKts the average rate of 60 cents per 1938, only a part of which was Vz caused induscent taxed at per gallon, thousand cubic feet and to One rumor that has reached ourj trial users at the average rate of the displacement of approximately is that among the problematiears It is the 10,000,000 tons of coal on the At- cal candidates 17 cents per thousand. for vice president on lantic and Gulf coasts. the Democratic ticket is Maury WITH EVERYONE Maverick of Texas TRESPASSING Welcome, Labor. We Appreciate Your Patronage Taste is the thing that counts and Royal Bread has HEADACHES FOLLOW AT THE CAPITAL VOTES TOWNSEND that natural, substantial bread flavor you like. Always KRAUSE GROCERY There arer a lot of red faces in fresh always appetizing in appearance and delicious Red and White Store (Continued from page 1) the House of Representatives this to be would it has historical basis it eat, Royal Bread is also good for your health and all because the boys QUALITY FOODS we week, and it is that of consequence paramount vitality. Ask for Royal Bread by name. Town in the saddle permitted the Phone 4678 802 28th St. know whether the country wants a send bill to come floor on the up OGDEN, UTAH continuance of the New Deal as de for a vote. This was not expected veloped by President Roosevelt. Many of these who promised the folks back home that they would vote for the Townsend bill in the UNION MADE hope that the bill would not be re-- 1 Compliments of found out committee and of ported that .they could not keep their promises are reading letters every day that are giving them the jitNON-PARTISA- N Non-Partis- an ar The Photo Shop or k a , 17-R- I 'THE FAVORITE! f STANDARD BRANDS OF CALIFORNIA - Chase & Sanborns Coffee Tender Leaf Tea Royal Gelatine and Pudding Royal Baking Powder and Fleischmans Yeast 3 i ters. For example, a Republican from Illinois who sent a pinch-hittfor him at a Townsend convention at Fresh Decatur and authorized him to state for me and in my behalf that Every Day at I favor and will support the prinYour Grocer's ciples of the General Welfare Act, takmeasure is now or a similar ing on a very sick appearance because he voted nay. Some Republicans jumped the traces of their national organization which intends to campaign on an economy platform and voted Salt Lake and Ogden yes, not because they approved the Townsend plan but because 3 100 Per Cent Home-Owne- d George Mueller, President s they knew some day there would be an election back home. . . . niwiiiiiiiiiQuiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiioiuiuiiiuiaiiiiimiiHaiiiiiiiiMiauiiimiiiiBiiiiiiiiifiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiMmiiiiaiiiiiiiiimaiiiniiiia er ROYAL BAKING COMPANY |