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Show r iv k "tV 1 '1 i ' UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. SEPTEMBER I. 1 3. 1935. MILLIONS IN TRADE UNION BENEFITS Hafaor Established 1929 MM 4 matter March 28 1930 at the post office Entered as second-clas- s at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. $1.50 per annum Subscription Advertising rates by request. Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at 24 Utah. South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Telephone Was. 2981. .....Publisher Office Manager M. I THOMPSON.. L. M. THOMPSON. to help Trade union benefits union men and women through the trying periods of unemployment, sickness and old age and provide their families with assistance when death calls for the breadwinners, are among the outstanding protective measures which organized labor gives to its members. A national summary of these benefits, totaling millions of dollars, is included in the annual reports which the executive council of the American Federation of Labor makes to the Federation annual conventions. Incomplete data for 1934 already in the hands of the A. F. of L. indicate that organized labor contiues to regard these benefits as an integral part Vhflarge terfrthese benel f.fc gervice3 was strikingly shown in the summary for 1933 which the executive council reported to the 1934 convention. Out of 114 standard national and international unions 90 reported the payment of some of the regular forms of benefits. The total amount paid by all the unions re porting was $40,692,112.72, classified as follows: Death benefits, $14,780,206.42; sick benefits, $1,665,265.75; unem ployment benefits, $13,784,042.87; old age benefits, $4,678,636.41; disability benefits, $4,837,730.42; mis cellaneous, $946,230.85. Typographical Auxiliary The Woman's Auxiliary No. 16 to Typographical Union No. 115 will hold its business meeting on Monday, September 16, at 2 p. m. at the home of Mrs. M. L. Ham-so1086 South Fourth East. This meeting was postponed one week so that it would not conflict with the State Federation of Labor convention which was held at Price this week. n, SUGAR BEET FARMERS MUST ENFORCE CHILD LABOR BAN WASHINGTON (AFLNS) Officials of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration announced that sugar beet farmers must prove they have obeyed the child labor provisions of their contracts with AAA before they receive final 1934 and first 1935 benefit payments. the stateThese contracts, ment said, prohibit labor of children under 14 in sugar beet fields and limit labor of children between 14 and 16 years to eight hours per day. Children of producers signing contracts and of Tenants actively engaged in the management of a farm they lease are exempt. accept with complaeny LABOR TABLOIDS theories and pratices in politics, in industry, in national and ICC reports issued last week international life. The march of show that 149 Class I railroads inspiritual forces in society is now creased their net profit by about on. If we are to keep Christ and in April this year com His law of love as a vital reality $2,300,000 Of The Board of National Missions with the same month of we are under compulsion to find a pared of the 1934. During this one-yeperiod way to practice His teaching in these roads reduced the number of America United in of States the Church Presbyterian His present world. In this hour their employes by about 4 per cent. the Church should leave no room for doubt on its stand on all mat Removal of William L. as (Crowded out of Labor Day is- eration, therefore, must always ters of social justice.' While it is head of the St. Louis boardIgoe of poThe Nine St. Louis breweries have very true that it is not the function of lice sue by lack of space.) precede reconstruction. commissioners, was asked by promised, under conditions which of nature regeneration personal economic Church to the prescribe There are several facts in the makes it impossible that it should . the Central Trades and Labor and political programs, it is the Um0n, Claim is made that he mean that they intend to keep present social and industrial sit- be limited to the individual. The function of the Church to bring the shouid not Hold the office while his their word, to continue under NRA uation which magnify the 'necesindiof the code conditions regardless of the regeneration spiritual sity and importance of religion in vidual cannot but express Itself in reign of Christ into all the realms utility supreme courts decision. An life and the of human reign surely terms of spiritual leadership. social Every effort of of Christ is not reconcilable with agreement to that effect was signThe first fact is the deepening man tochanges. suicidal. is isolate himself war or sweatshops or slums ori Charles A. Berry, a member of ed with the Brewery Workers conviction that the three most urThe is social. union. Humanity essentially gent social questions now con- completed work of the gospel of economic oppression or racial per- - the Typographical union and editor or selfish and secutions nationalism, of the Labor Clarion, has been fronting the church, the nation Christ therefore is not merely per- whether in or Russia or named a member of the San Fran-Mexithe world are: Germany sonal regeneration but also social or the United States or cjsco hoard of education by Mayor Can peace be preserved? new birth is elsewhere. in regeneration. the grounding of a J Rossi Can social and economic pros- still the basis ofThe By moral all progress stain be achieved all and right social faiths and perity for and enlightenment, the necessary society Diamond Jim the bilized ? laying of the axe of truth at The U. S. supreme court may de toward first gooc step every With the root of social falsehoods, by reCan social and economic security whether bW Eagle unconstitu personal or public, socia" generating society with right so- - ciare the be insured? Edward no Arnold but has it tional, jurisdiction political commercial or relig cial visions will the Church fulfill over It is not too much to say that or Union Card the Label, Shop A right spirit will be far its divine mission to educate sothe character of our future civili- ious. or Button. more more far searching, exacting in social as well as individual zation depends on our answer to lINHNNHMHIIIHiMIIHHHMHIIIHHNIIIHIHIIIIIIHNHMNIHIIHMIlINHINtHlimMNNNIIIIHWniMIMNI effective than law, ciety these three inescapable questions. and far more justice. or valuable To ask the Church to provide a For the moment chaos seems to regulationare. legislation, have snatched from mankind many as these No spiritual leadership which will Locked Doors of its recent gains, especially in role in the strug a The fourth fact is the insistent playforproductive national recovery and stathe field of freedom. Democracy, demand gle that the church mus is not to ask it to venture which seemed so triumphant in a social order in which bility stand for of its legitimate function outside 1920, has disappeared except In a there shall be no locked doors be- The Christian Church few favored lands. Communist and may be justgroups. Every opportunity ly indicted for impertinence when fascist dictatorships have created tween shall be and every talent it seeks io dictate the details of tyrannies not only, over the. body shall haveopen an equal right to earn business management, industrial but over the mind the real test of tyranny. Never has our coun- another talent. Fair profit as a technique or to determine tne perreturn for necessary and Import sonnel of But the government. try stood in greater need of Chris ant contributions to an undertak- Christian Church as the salt of the tian statesmanship and of intelliis a morally defensible reward gent thinking on the part of the ing earth, the light of the world, the The Christian life is not a life un- - leaven terms of Christian truth of is never nearer people in concerned with posseslsons anc to its real society, and Christian ideals as today. function than when It is profit, but one in which the profit Substitutes Fail large and morally signifiis subordinate to service, in which, placing cant goals before the nation it The second fact is the acknowl if necessary, profit is sacrificed in serves. The Church of Christ is edged failure of all proposed sub order that service be more stitutes for religion as a cure for C9mplete. Therefore,maythe profit called to face the social problems of the present day by her very loyour individual, national and inter-- 1 is defensible only when it alty to the Master. To neglect tailed tw it wnfhiohtn is subordinated. Why should it be His suffering ones is to neglect of incredible man the !! that thought deal with the present situation Uusiness and jncjustry should put Him; to despair of His power to remove the evils from which all service before profit as we all ex- - mankind is tempfary can which suffering i3 to fail in adjustment easily 'v No her faith in His sufficiency. Christian should ever doubt the power of Christs spirit and teaching to transform loth the indivi dual and society. This is no time the Christian Church to ignore for vetSre0nded.r ciSy : or evade or apologize, but to look IHMniHIMmmHUHHHHINMMHtlMIIHnMIMINIIIIHIMMNHIMMimiMHHMIllMiNHIHIimmHIHHIimiHHIHNIimHItHtnHIHMMMIItMHHWIH. the principle that no one has a with open eyes and with firm disIHMINIIHHUUniMUlHINMHIUllUtHIHINUINIUIIMmUIMHNIIIItlUNIHMIMHIHHUMMinmH On? crimination as she sands in this Wl age facing the days that dent of social and industrial condi- tv epochal are and the days to come with of the social ordcr da- - lope, courage and faUh. f Major Obligations app 1 The active guardianship and tion but even more from moral 13 W of rwP5lufj promotion of moral values In the weaknes. Industrial secularism catl0n jlandeals. (Continued on page 3) has brought our civilization well The is direct the fifth responsito an nigh abyss of material ruini,.,.. i0ir0V.ldl 8 and spiritual despair. It is now the corpofor leadership evident that misery does not come spiritual well as as life individual the rate from ignorance alone, and thereobfore cannot be swept away by of modem society. It is now lonno can the Church that vious knowledge alone; distress does not come from environment alone, and ger remain a tame spectator of sonor therefore it cannot be removed by cial evils and economic wrongs, the mere improvement of circumstances alone; suffering does not (INCORPORATED) come from poverty alone and therefore economic and political changes alone will not eliminate it. The fallacy of modem economic and political isms is not their radiextemalism. calism, but their However perfect the machinery we Publications, By-Law-s, Briefs, Abstracts set up may be, it will be useless All Forms of Commercial Printing unless we apply it to the right motive power. No change in the a Orders Solicited. structure of society will prevent st from being the anti-Christi- an LABOR DAY MESSAGE ar co MMMHIHHMIHMNM I si lament a Walker Bank & Trust ss fesifss I Company Si I superS I i CBMTUR'Y J COMPANY Commercial Winters Out-of.Tow- self-intere- strongest motive for action. Must Have a Heart The third fact is the growing consciousness that if peace, stability, security and progress are to be insured, society, as well as the individual, must have a change of heart. It is just as true of the nation as it is of the individual that out of the heart are the issues of life. Until the heart is right nothing else can be right, either in personal or corporate life. Regen- - UN10N MADE EDISON STREET SALT LAKE CITY Phone Wasatch 1801 231-3- 5 The Norville Motor Co. 468 South Main Was. Dad 4308 and Beer That Granddad Drank |
