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Show LAKE CITY. UTAH. JANUARY 15. 1937. UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT actment of such measures as may product and, therefore, pledge ourof adebe possible to prevent its spread. selves to the enactment control milk legislation quate Primaries We stand committed to the pol- which will insure to the producer a (Continued from page 1) more direct se- fair proportion of the resale price and icy of providing acandidates. the forthcoming election, of his product, and also protect the lection of party pledge ourselves to a continued consumer from unfair or unjust Milk economical administration of the We recognize that the producer prices. affairs of the state, and to thereby of ftesh Legislative Districts milk for market as such lessen the tax burden on the peo- has failed to receive his for the division of the We stand just proon page 3) ple of this state. of his (Continued portion of the resale price Education We favor the continuous improvement of schools to meet the MAY WE RENEW OUR WISH FOR A PROSPEROUS YEAR needs of an advancing and changTO LABOR ing social order in keeping with the high average wealth of the state. For this purpose and in the FIRST NATIONAL BANK spirit of its necessity, we favor MURRAY, UTAH adequate state aid for a state teachers retirement plan, and an immediate increase for state aid for the equalization of educational opportunity; and likewise, continHearty Good Wishes to Labor for a New Year Full of Life, ued advancement of educational Health, Happiness and Prosperity standards throughout the schools of our fair state. Women and Children We deplore the practice of a few employers who take advantage of women and children and other employes by paying unreasonably low wages, and we point with pride to the minimum wage law enacted by our Democratic state legislature of 1933. This law, however, has become ineffective because of a reWe Wish Our Labor Friends a Prosperous 1937 cent ruling of the supreme court of the United States which held, in effect, that a state law which prescribes a minimum wage for adult women is repugnant to the constitution of the United States, and which leaves in doubt the right- of Fine Groceries Prompt Delivery Right Prices a state to enact a minimum wage - Hy. 329 328 4850 3 Phones: Hy. Hy. law for children. both Second South We pledge our nominees, 808 East state and congressional, to do all within their power to bring about an amendment to the constitution of the United States, permitting To Our Utah Labor Friends We Wish a Prosperous Year states to enact minimum wage laws for the benefit of women and BLUE BELL SERVICE STATION children. Mining The Little Retail Station with Wholesale Ways We recognize the importance, of mining in this state. We believe FREEBOURN, INCORPORATED that through sympathetic cooperation with mine owners and operaCOAL tors a fair distribution of the 1242 South West Temple Hyland 274 wealth of the mines can be secured. This entails fair wages and proper working conditions for mine labor and fair taxes to the state. Industry and Business BEST WISHES TO UTAH LABOR We are aware that business and industrv desire as much freedom May You Have a Prosperous Year as possible from governmental inWe are terference and taxation. sympathetic with this attitude to the extent that business, industry, and all other wealth-producigroups are willing to cooperate in the establishment of a proper Salt Lake City, Utah standard of living 'for their employes, and the solution of the problem of unemployment in the state. We do not subscribe to the idea WE WISH LABOR A HAPPY, PROSPEROUS YEAR that business and industry desire to escape their duty in this respect, but we do solicit a broad, social point of view, and cooperation in these matters, in order that the state may, in turn, render all the help it can in solving the trying The Worlds Greatest Stoker problems that tend to slow up and depress the production of wealth. Continental Bank Building Wasatch 4121 We submit that reduction of ;axes by the Democratic administration is evident that there is no desire to unduly burden the tax payers of the state, including busi ness and industry, and, therefore, pledge ourselves to a progressive jrogram that will aid industry and POLITICAL OUTLOOK UtaJ) labor Jletog A MEMBER OF THE Established 1929 This paper receives the American Federation of Labor News Service. 04 Entered as s matter March 28, 1930, at the post office at Salt Lake City. Utah, under the Act of March 8, 1879. second-clas- Subscription , Advertising rates by request. per annum $1.50 Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. M. L - - I THOMPSON- M. THOMPSON ......Publisher Office Manager OIL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION SETS A GOAL FOR 1,000,000 3IEMBERS Special to the Utah Labor News. LONG BEACH, Cal. Last week was a very busy one for the Oil Workers of Long Beach, Satur day and Sunday meetings of the state and district officials of the locals were held at which many matters were considered. It was closed to the general public. Reports are it was largely attended, to bring into the Internationa approximately 1,000,000, which wil include filling station operators and all others in the oil industry, He stated the plan of organization adopted irt the auto and stee groups, with John L. Lewis head ing the drive personally, would be followed. The executive board also adopt ed a blanket minimum wage scale of $5 per day with a week for the petroleum workers not covered by present agreements. This will be submitted to the four major 1 Lauren W. Gibbs IP. delegates being present from all the oil field sections of the state. Monday was given over principally to the district representative problems. One of the important propositions discussed was the question associations of operators. of pushing to a greater degree than ever the organization campaign which has been on for some UTAH STATE months with large accessions to SINFONIETTA the ranks reported. with held Conferences were also Utah State Sinfonietta will be officers of the International Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery presented by Works Progress Ad Workers, who started their gen ministration, Federal music proj eral executive board session Tues ect, Friday, January 15, at 8:15 p Monday evening an open m.. at the Commercial Club audi day. meeting wras held attended by torium, under the direction of Reghundreds of members of the locals inald Beales, with Miss Helen in southern California. The Long Budge as soloist. The program is in three parts so Beach local also entertained the following renditions is including time an and enjoyable dally of those A Symphony in D Major, Haydns number reported. Beethovens Piano Concert! No. prominent in the general move in C and Bizts Suite Minor, ment in Los Angeles attended Fremming Attends In this concert the Harvey C. Fremming of Long Utah presenting State takes great Sinfonietta Beach, president of the Interna in the public the giving tional, arrived Monday and par- pleasure Miss of Helen privilege hearing ticipated in several of the pre Budge, Utah pianist of outstanding liminary meetings. He came from ability, in a work of maior importheadquarters in Washington. He ance with orchestra. Miss Budge was quite optimistic, saying mem is a teacher of piano at the bership of the International now Music and Art, School of exceeded 100,000 and was grow-inmusical in circles here prominent right along. He said equaliza- and elsewhere and is an artist of tion of wage scales and working thorough hours are to be asked from the high attainments and received her musicianship, having resul A will refusal operators. in congress being asked to enac training under such teachers as E. Robert Joseph and Rosina legislation to provide the relief LhevenneSchmitz, ensemble from the and sought. The executive board is to famous Roth Quartette. draw an agreement embodying the The concert Friday evening, un improvement sought and submit- der the direction of Reginald ted to the operators. director state of the FedBeales, in C. James Coulter, a leader is made music eral possible project, the Long Beach movement and a vice president of the State Feder through the cooperation of the ation from Los Angeles county, is Chamber of Commerce and Earl J. a member of the executive board Glade. There is no admission charge of the International. and the public is assured a musical A Million Members treat. As the Oil Workers Internabusiness. tional is one of the organizations State Prison L. A. for the F. of MINERS CONTINUE suspended by We pledge ourselves to a prorefusal to quit the C. I. 0., some TO ORGANIZE gram contemplating the removal of expected action by the board in rethe penitentiary to such place or President Fremgard thereto. DENVER Organization contin- places and in such units as will ming is quoted as saying the board would not consider the matter of- ues to go steadily forward in the make possible an intelligent, scien-ifihumane, segregation of prisficially, as he expected settlement International Unioit of Mine, Mill oners for their possible rehabilitaof the difficulty before long. and Smelter Workers. President Fremming, in an interAt the Denver offices of the or- tion and restoration to honorable view, is reported saying a nationJohn M. citizenship. ganization Secretary wide drive is to be launched April Sherwood reports that new charHealth We favor intensified effort to ters were granted to new local To unions in California and to local nrevent and control disease. his end we solicit the cooperation unions in Ontario and British Coof all the people of the state in carlumbia. Canada. Best Wishes to Besides receiving good reports rying out the requests and orders from Utah, a 48 cents a day wage of the state board of health. In Labor increase was also won by members this connection, we pledge. ourof Local 84 in Beckmever. 111., and selves to a studv of the tuberculosis situation in Utah and to the en- Local 82 in East St. Louis, 111. 3G-ho- ur ng Mc-Cu- ne ; JT. Quality . FREE-BURNIN- G Jacobsen Construction Co. Stokol - Salt Lake, Inc. CENTURY .Utahs oldest and largest UNION Printing Plant c, 1. 1 BlfJTZ CO. Master Stokers Labor has no weapon as powerful as the one to BUY where It pleases. To Our Friends of Labor We Wish Prosperity in 1937 ! O EDEN CANDY, Inc. 579 West 2nd South Wasatch 4805 59 E. 3rd South. Was. 1440 SAM GIANOS, Mgr. Friend of Labor INCORPORATED Catering to local and i 231-23- 5 "The Master Salesman Was. 2484-8- 5 IT PAYS TO KEEP CLEAN X out-of-to- firms ana organizations who desire Union-mad- e Union Printing. Paper and 100 Cleanliness First! Cleanliness Last! Boost, Build and Support your State. Use American continuous towels and all kinds of linens they fur nish. Support industries that support you. East 6th Sooth Commercial (Printers 1 AMERICAN LINEN SUPPLY COMPANY 33 LUCAS Grocers 'U V Edison Street Phone Wasatch 1801 Salt Lake City, Utah |