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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. SEPTEMBER 13. 1935. PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS OF UTAH UNION LABEL ACTIVITIES ha.bn panel FEDERATION CONVENTION costitutionaithat and signed by tne the ANNUAL ADDRESS AT STATE I I congress of the United States. If be iucce'ssfuUnlecur'ing aubmission 0f the constitutional amendment to a vote of the sov- j I trust the delegates . A. 6tates convention will realize the t importance of exerting ev- power .and influence of the gt t Federation of Labor toratification of this import. amendment as soon as it is d bv congress. 1 by education. I am planning a simi(Continued on page 3) the first act of this kind ever pass-- 1 lar column in our Labor Leader. chandise may be had from the ed by the congress of the United J. E. Brinley, secretary-treasure- r, acbe cannot manufacturer, The President was beset with many States. It, therefore, United Mine Workers No. measure were a or as who as paand powerful foes, cepted August Hosqvist, secretary, perfect, Sweet Mine, Utah. I wish 6511, maximum the which ho of for Federation State false by provides their Labor, patriotism world of success with the the and you old to me Pocatello. congrat-presPermit the s metropolitan age pension employment, heralding through Union as I am 100 per cent which the Label, fine to ulate you upon your work. I people of the nation their friendship health benefits for move. this the and entitled. are It of of this Roosevelt work have known country your splendid for President Ed Davis, secretary, B. of R. T. in this field for years, and this is administration when in reality mUst be accepted as a basis upon structure success. and social which a 471. No. of avarice Our membership is their greed, security your proof through W. B. Scarlett, secretary, B. of heartily in favor of your splendid which have developed their short- - can be erected which will guaran- tee the payment of adequate bene- The talk given to work and hope to be of help in , R. T. No. 941. sightedness, they have been acting protect Democracy - fits to the beneficiaries and provide shorton These our of a Judas. May lodge yourself the campaign for the education of the part 0ur democraCy cannot survive and Brother Rhodes 16wasbythorough-been the workers have of the to the importance of of enemies recovery necessary security degrees is d sighted posconditions where it and as social to am order will sure I and the Union Label on everything business it repreled by big preserve the bl for the jud(re of tbe United My enjoyed, Mesult in more attention being paid they buy. We are enclosing check sented by the House of Morgan, prevent human distress. States supreme court in a five-fothe and on to the necessity of the purchase of as contribution to your fund, with States international bankers, Depends the decision, to destroy a law that has . the of The social success the of associations trade security subsidiary enacted by the congress of Roods bearing the to Union Label, our best wishes for a successful na- - act will largely depend upon the the assist in the campaign. by represented employers th United States and signed by Check is enclosed Label Blue association Union A. F. Whitney, president, Grand of enactment similar of whkh supplementtional manufacturers law has the publication comkindof in thank B. of R. T. the Book. We will chamber different I am pleased national you Lodge very the legislation ary and unauestioned support of a great a us 200 will furnish statement about to states. It is designed to provide for receieve if that your ly Tncrce yu majorjty 0f the people of this are in our members state the payment of a measure of bene-- 1 UnJted Failure to Enforce your copies. states in fact, legislation I Eaulthe insurLabel fits Union in that L. under fact an McCollum, notorious president, cooperating your unemployment It is a L,jch oQ per cent of the people by San Diego Typographical Union drive, as well as in the handling vave virtually com- underlying cause for failure to en-to ance system and to provide for the Am taking the liberty of legislative matters, and if at has been due payment of old age pensions, force Section congress to enact. I would No 221. the fact that congress did not ternal and child health service, and therefore recommend that the dele- - Pf writing to you regarding your any time this office can be of help should not hesitate to call upon column in the Utah Labor News, r rai3 to statfs aid reckon with its hosts, when gates this convention draft suit- -- 11 13 ne Pf the best plans I have you that us. law blind amount The a of enacted benefits had it ble res0iuti0ns urging the conthought (Continued Next Week) had in its provisions sufficient en-- which will be paid in each of these 0f the United States at its I seen to lve our members a label forcement legislation to compel the classifications will depend upon the Lext Bession to enact IIouse joint U. M. W. of A. Auxiliary NEW HOME OFFICE managers of industry to abide by size of the benefits provided f or Resolution No 277 in the State legislation. It, there-- 1 of the act. Section IN NEW YORK CITY . . Another important law which . We are happy to have the priv- fore, behooves the people of each was passed by the recent congress ilege of belonging to the Ladies The National Labor The editor of the Utah Labor Act, better known as the Wagoner- state to call upon the members of- an(j whjch affects hundreds of auxiliary to the U. M. W. of A. News wit has received an invitation embodies to their proLabor Dispute Act, respective legislatures thousands of workers is the Guf- - We named our organization Lain the Union Labor Life Insurfrom social enact laws to ced those it guarantees security from Kenil-i- n fey Coal Stabilization biH. This Uw dies Loyal No. 1 were ance to visit and inspect which will the for paycompany provide power bargaining establishes a little NRA within the worth, Carbon Co., Utah, their new home office at 570 Lextaken from labor when the su- - ment of adequate benefits and soft coal industry. This law, no organ-prem- e we been have Although court declared the National which will confront to the stand- - doubt, will increase the wages, and ized ington avenue, New York City, only a little more than a where set act erda Act it was moved July 1, from mtheFederal up andl shorten the working hours of the month we now have a complete unconstitutional. Recovery Washington, D. C. . The Union Labor Life Insurance company was formed a few years lm-- 1 ers of Utah are most the interI and member-portaago under the direction of the especially perhaps standing between the every meeting. We have a ested in this important matter and various coaicompetition American section 'of the entire act: Federation of Labor. Its cents Dues are 10 companies. ship of sixty. stockholders are labor organizaEmployes shall have the right I am sure that they will join with The progress which labor has per month, to self organize, to form, join, or others who favor the enactment of made jn the pursuit of both its The spirit of buying union made tions, affiliated with the American assist labor organizations, to bar-- 1 social security legislation in giving! economic and legislative policies is products is the purpose of every Federation of Labor. The company writes all forms of life insurance. gain collectively through represen- - support to practical, constructive definite and most substantial. The member. We know that union of their own choosing, ana social security measures. The sense two policies run The invitation says: men. union as men as are We seek necessary parallel. to engage in concerted activities of satisfaction which the people to promote the common Constant enlargement of our cause of We extend our help to other camps for the purpose of collective bar-- 1 possess over the enactment of habor through the utilization of the that wish to organize. In union life insurance facilities increase in gaining or other mutual aid or I these progressive measures is economic influence and power of there is strength, so, sisters, lets our policy holders, consolidation of counteracted to some degree by the labor and advance the cause of so- - all get together now in District 22. our executive offices, with increasprotection. I Is the Law feeling of apprehension which pre- - cjai justice and legal protection At our last meeting we had a ed efficiency and added improveThis section is a part of the I vails over the possibility that they I through the enactment state and Very nice program and social, and ment in our services to all policy of statute. It is the law of the land, may be held invalid by the su- - federal legislation. Labor has al- - 10 women joined. We had the holders and agents, made desirable In that respect, it differs from preme court of the United States. wayg held, as it now holds, that it pleasure of meeting Mrs. Kelsey, the$e new and enlarged quarters. which did not become The question of their validity must must be free to Section Matthew Woll is president of the collectively and hope she will be with us at until it was embodied in be finally determined by the high- - for wages, hours,bargain operative and Thomas E. Burke is and conditions of our next meeting, company an industrial code of fair competi- - est tribunal. We hope and trust employment. It holds that wages In the Labor Day celebration at the secretary-treasure- r. tion. This act defines the basic that all these measures have been cannot, and should not, be fixed in Price the Ladies Loyal Auxiliary rights of workers to organize and carefully drawn by those who in-- 1 private industry by legislative fiat No. 1 led the parade and was Industrial unrest which has been them as to meet all thejoj by executive or administrative lowed by the union men. We have increasing since the supreme court collectively, free from timidation .and coercion, it estab- - constitutional requirements of our decree. The right to accept or re- - hadges and a lovely banner of pol- killed the NRA was fanned into ishes the principle of the majority nations organic law. We can only ject wages and the right to strike pie and gold, and the crowds cheer-rul- e new strikes by employers who are in collective bargaining. It wait with hope and patience the are principles individual and collec- - ed us as we marched with our taking advantage of the absence of provides for the creation of a na- supreme test which must be ap-- 1 tive freedom recognizes as vital to colors. We were awarded a prize codes to cut wages, lengthen hours tional labor relations board clothed plied to these legislative statutes, the establishment and maintenance of $10. A group picture was taken, and discriminate against union with authority to prevent employ Constitution Change 0f democracy and democratic insti- - and also one of the officers alone. members. There was introduced in the last tutions. But .a guarantee of the en- ers from engaging in unfair labor Our president, Mrs. Vera of congress House Resolu- - joyment of the right to organize derson, addressed the large crowd practices which tend to affect adEsperantic Harmony tion No. 277 which provides a con- - and bargain collectively falls with- - assembled in the park. DIANTHA versely interstate commerce. the Esparanto AssociaRecently The Social. Security Act repre stitutional amendment with a rat- - in prerogatives and powers of leg- - MORGAN, Press Correspondent. tion of North America met in New sents a pioneering adventure on ification limit of five years, re- - islative assemblies. Labor asks and York and learned a new song in the part of the federal government quiring that seven members of the insists that this right shall be If the four billion, eight hundred Esparanto which is supposed to into the social security field. It is supreme court must join before guaranteed, preserved .and exercis- - million dollar work relief fund help world harmony along. We an .act of congress shall be declar-- ed freely without interference, re- - were spent directly for union-mad- e hope it will, but if there is one ed in violation of the constitution straint or coercion. HILLMAN SEES NEW PARTY products, all of us would soon be common language which national FORCED BY STANDPATTERS or Its amendments, and that no Legislative Action wearing a prosperity smile. diplomats are mumbling under the other court may void an act of con- The advancement of social jus- it isnt Esparanto. breath, Sydgress. This constitutional amend-- 1 tice and security for all classes of You are the eyes of your Tamiment, Pa. (AFLNS) In union there is strength. ney Hillman, president of the ment should be submitted and working people falls within the do- - family purse. Learn to look for Amalgamated Clothing Workers of should be approved by the people, main of legislative action and leg- - the Union Label, Shop 'Card and union labels there is America, visions a new political and labor should give its unqual: islative enactment. For these sound Button. party composed of farmers and la- ified support to this constitutionalof and unassailable reasons the Amer-feforWe have had too many ican Federation of Labor and all bor if reactionaries in the existfive-fodecisions which its affiliates concentrated efforts in these block RoosPresident ing parties evelts New Deal. In an address practically place the welfare of our such a way during the past year here before the National Labor country in the hands of one man toward securing the enactment of who is appointed for life, and over the Wagner Disputes Act, the summer conference, he said? Can be exercised no restrain- - cial security measure, the railroad Under the NIRA slow but sure retirement act, the Guffey coal bill, progress was made to meet indus- ing influence of any kind. I am hoping that the progres- - the public works relief measure, trial need. The supreme court in invalidating it has settled nothing. sives in congress will be success- - the bill, the restoration of Unless the grave problems facing ful in securing the passage of wages taken from government CANDIDATE FOR the country are solved it is my preJoint Resolution No. 277, ployes through the enactment of diction that it will take less time submitting a constitutional amend- - the economy .act more than a la-to override the decision of the su- ment providing for seven judges ago, the acceptance of the childyear vote affirmato overcourt to the the in took than nine bor it to amendment the preme constitution ride the Dred Scott decision of tive before a law can be declared of the United States, and 1857. and divesting the j mental legislation designed to protect and promote the social justice labor in the various (Continued from page 1) over the New Deal program, put Jouid I -- I Ida-radi- ng jj'v ur ont I - 7-- A ed ma-Land- s i 7-- A -- 0fua2 I cut-thro- at nt -- wo-tativ- es 7-- A, fol-barg- ain I I Hen-sessi- I on I m. ur PflHLET so-wh- White 30-ho- ur I em-Hou- se of supple-unconstitution- al, City Commissioner (Continued next week) words of a salesman you as much as a Union MACHINERY COMPANY DEPENDABLE USED MACHINERY : I It The TJASTEEl SALESMAN 3rd So. & 6th W. 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