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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. OCTOBER 2, 1936. COOPERATIVES FOR UTAH STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR OPPPOSES HARMAN PEERY UNION PRODUCTS THE UNION LABEL A resolution for modification of (Continued from Page 1) Special to Utah Labor News reMINNEAPOLIS The 15th anDy N. B. MAXWELL, labor record was ex- the state liquor control law to of Peery'ij nual convention of the Northern plained to the convention by dele- move beer from the jurisdiction Secretary Birmingham Trades Council munici( States Cooperative League was at- gates from Ogden. His attitude the liquor commission toof You're a Union man, I take it, sale the light tended by 84 delegates from seven toward organized labor was de- palities, permit drinks in blended For you pay your Union dues, and wine beer, states. clared to be antagonistic. taverns and clubs But, my friend, is there a label A resolution passed by the conThe convention did not endorse hotels, cafes, Of a Union in your shoes? vention expressed the desire to en- any candidate for governor, al- with or without meals, and to fix dorse union labor. One resolution though Harold G. Crose, secretary the amount a purchaser may obDo you see the Union Label dealt with the use of Trade Union of the state federation, made a plea tain at a state store in one day. On tobacco that you buy? made goods and printed matter in behalf of Ray E. Dillman, the Resolutions recommending rigid Or upon your daily paper? with the union label. The conven- Republican nominee. of state laws pertainenforcement You can get one if you try. tion heartily endorsed the proposal Croces plea for Dillman was fol- ing to inspection of boilers and that all cooperators make an effort lowed by Eldrcd M. Iioyle, presi- pressure vessels, a measure enabIs a Label in the pocket to use, and create a further de dent Tintic Miners union, who ling municipalities to levy a tax Of the suit upon your back? mand for Union Made goods. showed up Dillmans for the support of municipal bands eloquently A Label on your collar issues came up shady interesting Many in the state legisla- and uihestras and an amendment record Or a Chinese Spider track? for discussion and resulted in the ture, and into the Republican na- of the prevailing wage law to emshaping of plans for the future. tional and state platforms, which brace public works prorects. Do you find the Union Label One thing that stood out strongly Dillman upholds. These platforms Support the movement for estabIn the sweatband of your hat? all through the sessions was the give labor no hope, except the comlishing of a state sanitarium for Look and see if you can find it strong interest of all delegates in pany union and rugged individual- the treatment of tuberculosis and Did you ever think of that? the affairs of labor and the earnest ism, Mr. Royle said. silicon's. desire on the part of all that orBlood Governor Lauds IIow about the Union Label ganized labor and the cooperative No Diagram Needed On the broom that your wife swings ? Mr. Royle lauded the administramovement learn to understand one Bill is feeling his oats tonight, IIow about it on your table, another and go down the road to- tion of Governor Henry JI. Blood, remarked one guest of he? and And on a thousand other things? isnt who has approved more labor gether. who was showing signs of social welfare measures than any another, Theres a moral in this poem, other Utah governor. He explain- getting bombastic. You can find it if you try LABOR NEWS No, what he is feeling is my ed the national and state DemoIf at first you fail to see it These contain rye, retorted the host. cratic platforms. Ask yourself the reason why. A. F. of L. News Service hope for the working men and woNEW YORK, N. Y. Officials of men, the speaker said. The DemoA a. AA A,. the International Longshoremens cratic party has a record of accomploye (company union) representa- Association and the New York plishments in behalf of the worktives to do as they see fit. Shipping Association signed a new ers, while the Republican party The representatives showed a agreement, effective Oct. 1 and merely gives hazy and empty LOOKING AHEAD sure sense of fitness and inci- lasting one year, providing for promises. By Len De Caux their scorn for the continuance of the The delegates gave approval of supreme dentally this form of intimidation by vot- work week, with wages of $1 Royles statements with bursts of ing to burn all the petitions. an hour for the regular week and thunderous applause. There was Steel Drive Dispels the Fog Clubs and Independents $1.50 an hour for overtime. Under no doubt as to whom the majority When the wind blows from the was the swing-ovthe mills smoke the that of the Spectacular expiring agreement they were of the delegates favored for govlake, blacken Lake Michigans shores to genuine unionism of the em- paid 95 cents an hour and $1.35 for ernor of Utah. WHOLESALE The convention chose Brigham from Chicago to Gary descends on ploye representatives from all over overtime. Secre- City as the place of its 1937 meetWASHINGTON, D. C. the streets and homes of tens of the Chicago area who met in Gary Fruit - Vegetables and voted to join with the S. W. 0. tary of Labor Frances Perkins an- ing. thousands of steel workers. But this, smoke that dirties the C. But less spectacular evidences nounced the appointment of Carter Approve Program Produce to the C. I. 0. are Goodrich, professor of economics houses and obstructs the view is of the turn-ove- r Among the outstanding projects comColumbia as almost of at unreand often as nothing compared to the fog University, daily, were the following: A missioner of labor at Geneva, Swit- approved of company propaganda, misrepre- ported, occurrence. resolution for the repeal of the At the huge South Works of zerland, to succeed Williarp G. present sales tax on aritcles of sentation and subtle intimidation Camegie-Illinoi- s, said to be second Rice, Jr., who resigned to return food and clothing that are classed which scores of organizers through 140-14- 4 in the PACIFIC AVENUE world and employ- to the University of Wisconsin as necessities of life with a joint of the Steel Workers Organizing largest school. aw more than various 13,000, Committee, and hundreds of volun ing resolution that this be introduced SALT LAKE CITY teer assistants in the mills, are clubs and independent organizafederation at the coming the by Y. now successfully battling their tions have long existed among the JAMAICA, N. Supreme session of the state legislature. men. The Associated Employes Uourt Justice Paul Bonynge, sit- way. voted to join the S. W. 0. C. as a ing here, denied the application of Day and night these from to house work, going house, body and now forms a lodge of the the Queens county committee of BEST WISHES TO LABOR and addressing meet Amalgamated Association. But a he communist party for an order organizing ings without number, and spread similar ferment is also at work requiring Borough , President) Air Conditioning Engineering Service George U. Harvey of Queens Viling the message of unionism with among smaller groupings. Ja-town to the hall at j Roll turners the South open of word. Works, lage printed and spoken in the independent maica for a communist rally. Mr. Signing up the workers they organized reach by the hundred, the organ- United Roll Turners Assn., recent Harvey denied the use of the hall CAMPBELL - ELSEY COMPANY izers in this sector of the greatest ly voted to disband as a craft body on the ground that the organiza- ENGINEERS tion was union campaign in history report and to endorse the C.I.O. R. S. TKINNAMAN, Manager The Motor Operators Club, well hardly a single instance of hosY. NEW N. The YORK, in same has the agree412 But Ness what organized Wasatch 5615 plant, Building tility among employes. ment. of the Merchant Truckmens they do encounter among those not also voted for genuine unionism. At Chicago Heights, the Mutual Bureau of New York to grant the yet ready to join is a fog of unBrotherhood of Protective Assn, in Inland Steel nternational certainty and fear. The fence-sitte- rs have lived so las become Lodge 64 of the Amal Teamsters and Chauffeurs union WELCOME, LABOR! long under the shadow of the al- gamated Association. It now has lere a 10 per cent increase in and other concessions mighty mills, whose smoke gets nearly all of the more than 300 wages a averted threatened strike of 15,-0in union to the in their eyes, that they hesitate employes signed up A truck drivers which had been with pool-roobelieve the hour of their union . Featuring freedom has struck. But the steady easy chairs, bar and office, has impending for three weeks. A vote UNION-MAD- E BUDWEISER and BECKERS BEER toby the union fixing a date for the progress of the recruiting drive aided in holding this group wras in well held up at the request) union strike as daily brings new light and evidence gether socially as For the Time of Your Life, Be Sure to Come Down to See Me of Mayor La Guardia, who urged of union power. activity. The Miners Influence he representatives of the em-- 1 80 West Third South Petitions a Joke Wasatch 10169 The headquarters of Van A. Bit-ne- r, ployers and truckers to resume neThe anti-unio- n petitions which the companies circulate through Chicago regional director, on gotiations in the endeavor to find) he emfloor of a modern office 19th to the mills intimidate their way out of the impasse. Virof are the West deceive are and the building, public, ployes gift It was CLARKSDALE, Miss. ginia miners to their becoming a joke. At the Columbia Steel & Shaftbrothers, the steel workers. earned that within a few miles of But this is only part of the ing Co. in Carnegie, where most (Continued on page 6) of the men had met and voted for miners contribution. U.M.W. orthe C. I. O., company stooges cir- ganizers who braved company ter- the steel workers and steers them culated through the plant sheets ror and violence in West Virginia around many pitfalls. of paper with nothing on them, and won the fight for unionism, To the Negro workers, the U. to collect employes signatures. have been brought in by Bittner M.W. influence brings tangible Then they announced this as a vote from his district there. evidence that the S.W.O.C. means Steel workers, new to unionism what it against the union. when it promises At Republic Steel in South Chi- though, old to their industry, do equal unionsays and no discrimirights cago, when a company petition was most of the organizing. But the nation, for that is the practice in Salt Lake City, Utah circulated through the mill against miners and other organizers from the miners union. paying dues to an outside organi- C.I.O. unions bring the prestige of The companies today cannot di- e union vide Negro zation, it was decided to place the their success. Their and white as they did Purchasers of Gold, Silver, Lead and Copper petitions in the hands of the em experience smoothes the way for in 1919. The National Negro ConOre, and Smelter Products gress and other Negro bodies arej cooperating 100 per cent with the drive. Negro organizers work ORE PURIIASING DEPARTMENT alongside white without friction. nationshow all races, Meetings alities and crafts employed in the Seventh Eloor, McCornick Bldg. mills united for a common union purpose. 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