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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. SEPTEMBER 17. 1937. Page 6 Cedar City and Iron County, the Portal of Utahs Playground, Invites You. Come On a Visit or As a Permanent Resident schools for democracy. But LABOR ON ITS workers were either shot to death LABOR AND an extraordinary achievement or had their brains clubbed out by FORWARD MARCH THE NATION police, or armed thugs Inin the pay nearly 400,000 working peoof the steel companies. Chicago, ple, most of whom never knew was should union was force a what before, police Kellys Mayor from Page 1) (Continued from Page 5) Ily Len I)e Caux (Continued learn strikers of ten in a brief in the successful year space killing United Mine Workers in the Cen-tralThose who are concerned about electrical manufacturing, power, before they could escape the fury internal difficulties be the future of American democracy to overcome known district that it )et older 600 union members coal and transport indus- bf the police, shooting eight of should take heart from observing such as have wrecked many demowould picket steel, with all the them in the back. One hundred the United Automobile Workers of organizations, the plant if it tried to open there. tries. unionveteran of cratic discipline The remaining membership ex- sixty strikers were maimed and inThis fact, added to other setbacks America, one of the lustiest and ists. by police clubs, riot guns and biggest unions of the C. I. O. including a strike, made the com- ists in the maritime, oil production juredbombs and were hospitalized. at ruled and Youth enthusiasm This union has written one of pany decide to postpone moving of and refining, shipbuilding, leather, gas of Hundreds comstrikers were arrestauto convention. the For the meat chemical, retail, packing, the most heroic pages in the histhe plant indefinitely. with brutality treated ed, have theirs to seen that metalliferous it jailed, of In a panies The idea tory of American labor. moving to Centralia vegetable canning, while incarcerated and harassed by manufactura mans miscellaneous is High hatched industry. young was time several has from months it mining, grown ago years None but 30,000 to close to 400,000 members. spirits were shown in the vigor of after the company found tha ing, agricultural labor, and service succeeding litigation. were strikers in dances tne snake murdered, Some gassed, miscellaneous industries. applause, were organizec and It has battled its way to success plant employes No maltreated. or in down are aisle and two hundred inthousand workers the jailed injured, spontaneous nearly 100 per cent as members against opposition that seemed workers one to had die the seven demonstrations. and into hundred five other except Radio United overcome labor of Electrical and has the parades organized superable. It (Continued on page 7) Intensity of feeling was evident Workers' Union. Some weeks ago chartered local units not yet atespionage, intimidation, violence of in heated industrial character the often and all the forces of coercion that the union called a strike to force tached to a national union. billion dollar corporations could the debate and in the sharpness of recognition. made But factional this divisions. inA of towns number offered to bear against it. Spells Progress bring In a years time, the United all the more remarkable the ability ducements to the Superior firm to This record bespeaks progress. Automobile Workers of America of the delegates to compose their locate in their territory, and Cen- It is a development without preceunder the inspiration- of the C. I. differences in the common interest tralia, which promised to raise a dent in our own country. Some of O., has introduced collective bar- of their union and the C. I. O. large sum through popular sub- this work was accomplished with scription, was selected from among the enlightened cooperation or the gaining and the beginnings of in- Their capacity for dustrial democracy into an indus- was commented upon by many ob- them as putting forward the best tolerant acquiescence of employproposition. ers who recognized that a new latry which had known only autoc- servers. Superior Electric now has sign- bor movement was being forged For the first time the union had racy since its inception. but more than all this, the brought together more than 1000 ed a contract with the U. E. & R. and who were not disposed, in any recent Milwaukee convention of delegates compared to some 200 W. granting union recognition, a event, vto flout the law of the land. the United Automobile Workers last year, wrote Louis Stark of wage increase and other conces- On the other hand, much of this has shown that this union has the New York Times, who has sions. progress was made in the face of learned violent and deadly opposition that its probably reported more labor conCLEVELAND I.L.G.W. members know how to work out ventions than any other newspawhich reached its climax in the WINS 2 OUT OF 3 SHOPS their own problems and settle their perman in the country r slaughter of workers paralleling own differences the massacres of Ludlow and democratically, Most of the delegates were Ohio (UNS) CLEVELAND, without impairing the strength Homestead. members straight and singleness of purpose of their from the factories, from assembly The International Ladies Garment In the steel industry the corporWorkers, C. I. O. union, won labor ations colorganization. lines and parts plants. board elections in two out of three lective generally have accepted A School For and bargaining negotiated Inexperienced in parliamentary of the Cleveland knitgoods plants Democracy with the Comwage agreements first their and as to procedure climax the a attending bitter struggle Union organization is one of the for Industrial Organization., convention, they were excited, which has been waged between the mittee Eighty-fiv- e of per cent of the induswaves and A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. garargued heatedly, is under contract and a thus try emotion ran through the meeting ment union in fhe city. exists bepeaceful relationship to turbulence, but they mounting At the Federal Knitting Mills, tween the and the management subsided. always the I. L. G. W. won by a vote of workers. Written contracts wage The of the dele- 290 to 148, and at the Bamberger have been with three negotiated vote was 136 hundred ninety-nin- e gates was the answer they made Keinthal plant, the steel companto those who question their ability to 132 in favor of the C. I. O. ies covering five hundred ten union. to carry out their promises. One men. thousand thousand Workers at the Stone Knitting thirty-on- e A Typically local in seven lodges Mills voted 298 to 148 for the American Union hundred communities have been Knit-gooA. L. chartered F. The automobile industry is one newly Workers Union. of I. L. G. W. organized. Few Resist of the most typically American of officials the Cleveland Fedcharge industries. In it of the Five g eration of Labor with corporations in the methods, through the conveyor and with playing the role of steel industry elected to resist colsystem and the like, have been company union agents for the lective bargaining and undertook carried to a point which has made firms. to destroy the steel workers union. American industry one of the These companies filled their plants The A. F. of L. scabs wonders of the world. It is a by the police, violently supported with industrial spies, assembled broke up young industry, employing young, the I. L. G. W. picket lines, union depots of guns and gas bombs, esworkers, and it has shot up to officials declare. tablished barricades, controlled giant size in a decade or two with their communities with armed When in Cedar City It's all the rapidity of expansion of FORCED TO JOIN II031E leased the police power of thugs, which Americans love to boast. UNION WORKERS TESTIFY . cities and mobilized the military By the same token, the United power of a state to guard them CAMBRIDGE, Md. (UNS) Zion Automobile Workers is one of the Threats Shop of beatings and loss of against the intrusion of collective most typically American of unions. their within their plants. Commercial and Portrait jobs were made by company bargaining The workers who make up its During this strike eighteen steel force to a them to agents join Photography n of home membership are a union, workers of the PhilAmerican life, coming from north Complete Line of Indian Co. testified at hearWelcome, Labor and south, from farm and city, lips Packing Reconducted the Labor by ings Jewelry and Souvenirs from immigrant and native stock. lations SUNSET TAVERN in Cambridge, Md. Board Homer Jones, Prop., Sandwiches That You Will They have shown enterprise, courCharges of violation of the Wagner Like age and staying power worthy of Act Friend of Labor were brought by the United the best in the American pioneer Pleases Us to Please You It Cannery, Agricultural, Packing The rapidity of their tradition. Ph. 197-- J Cedar City, Utah and Allied Workers, C. I. O. union. Cedar City, Utah unions growth 'has been pheLeonard Weinberg, called Marynomenal. union-bustlands by Incidentally, they have also con- United chief Cannery officials, reprefounded all predictions of hidebound craft opponents of the C. I. sented the company in an attempt to disprove that the Cambridge O., who claimed that mass production workers could never be' made Workers Association, or home group. into real union men like skilled union, is a company-backe- d workers. Once they found a form terest and to that of their country. of unionism adapted to modern American industry, the auto workSpeaking at the auto workers ers have proved themselves unionJohn L. Lewis, C. I. O. convention, ists who yield place to none. leader, expressed the depth of his It is only natural then that this own democratic convictions, his most American of unions should belief in the common good sense work out the problems of its boisand of the man, average terous growth in the democratic the democratic character described of the fashion which Americans hold movement he as follows: heads, dear.. That it has preserved its Best Wishes to It is the theory of our labor unity and effectiveness in so doing, movement that we have the right is one of the best proofs that to organize, we have the right to Organized Labor American people, once assemble, we have the right to exfree through unionism to conduct our views in our own Welcome! . their own affairs, will work out change wTe to crysforums, their destiny to their own best In- - tallize our have theinright the adoption opinions Serving Scenic Southern Utah With of resolutions bearing not alone upon the matters of everyday conAdequate Service at Low Rates Welcome, Labor cern to every man in the industry, yut bearing on and dealing with CAFE AND HOTEL O every broad question of social, or. that economic import political GARAGE affects Americans and will affect Sportsmens Headquarters Deer License posterity. 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