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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, JANUARY Buyers Strike Can Whip Wage Cutters Into Line payrolls again. Money is now being earmarked in Detroit for investment in the 1939 model. This, combined with the impetus that will be resumed in auto buying when the price increase is given back to the consumer, will The dollars and cents in the hands of the mass consumer go far to bring Detroit back to the have saved the recovery movement from collapse. recovery movement. The severe lesThe sustained volume of mass buying, as revealed in re- son taught the auto industry will by no means bankrupt it; and it tail sales, is proving sufficient to force production to rise again will help to restore the confidence in a number of key industries. of the one power in this country such of industries now turning round are textiles without purchasing power and seTypical and steel; their simultaneous re curity in spending no recovery and covery is proof that sustained pur- in the U. S. earn less than $30 a no sustained production is poschasing power (textiles being a week. By far the largest contin- sible. That power is the working consumer goods industry) is able gent of auto owners nearly 25 per consumer. to stimulate the durable goods in- cent have incomes of 420 dustries. No more devastating to $30, and no less than 15 per LABOR ON ITS argument need be found against cent of them have incomes of $10 the big business theory and prac- or less. FORWARD MARCH Now what happens when worktice of wage cuts and government ers are laid off, or put onto part economy during recessions. (Continued from Tage 1) Now further evidence is becom- time, or even lose confidence in the Brotherhood of Carpenters and ing available that the more intelli- ability or willingness of their em- Joiners. In this case the carpenters gent leaders of industry are learn- ployers to keep them on the job? are boycotting the woodworkers, They naturally go on a buyers ing that there is a strike of confithe governor of Oregons dence which can be more fatal than strike. And what happens then? though peace plan has been accepted by a strike of capital. This is a strike A Detroit sources supplies the an- the woodworkers and elections have on the part of the mass of con- swer. After a survey of all used shown the woodworkers to be the sumers a strike provoked either car supplies, in which the auto inoverwhelming choice of the workby plain lack of money or by fear dustry and federal officials coop- ers there. of spending what money is in the erated, it wa3 announced that used But the carpenters still refuse cars m hand have in the last two to sock. up the boycott. give The industry under heaviest fire months shot up from a normal 60U, Real Obstacles The is the auto industry, which has led 000 cars to fully 1,500,000. Under the attitude taken by the the recovery movement, and withVery little time is required, once A. F. of L. here no agreement can out whose participation no satis- the millions of workers stop buy- be reached between the A. F. of L. factory resumption of recovery is ing expensive investment goods and the C. I. O. until the carpenlike automobiles, before the storm ters have made possible. an agreement with Low Income Class cloud3 gather. the woodworkers. The plain fact is that more than The Remedy The same situation obtains with g half of the families What is the remedy? It was the United Electrical, Radio and stated clearly last fall, at the be- Machine Workers of the C. I. O. ginning of the panic, in the column The A. F, of L. negotiating comAMERICAN LINEN when auto price increases were mittee admits here that the A. F and the conclusion drawn of L. cannot impose its judgment SUPPLY COMPANY analyzed, that they were completely unwar- or its desires on the International ranted. Now, after they have tried Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Cleanliness First! Cleanliness to get away with a ramp against which is Last! Boost, Build and Supfighting the C. I. O. union the auto the consumer, AmerUse State. at companies step. your every port are coming round to the view that The negotiating committee says ican continuous towels and it costs no more to make a 1938 that all A. F. of L. unions are auall kinds of linens they furmodel than it did to make a 1937 tonomous, and therefore the comnish. Support industries that model; in fact, every material ex- mittee is without power to negotisupport you. cept steel now costs less. ate such a question. The A. F. of 33 East 6th South . Price cutting is in the offing. L. committee has shown its in2484-85 Was. The parts makers are already ability to cope with the split in the -IT FAYS TO KEEP their prices. And the next ranks of labor. shading CLEAN month, according to trade sources, Their inability to accept the C. must see substantial price reduc- I. O. offer to bring 4,000,000 memtions in a belated and desperate at- bers into the A. F. of L. shows furtempt to win back consumer con- ther the weakness of their posifidence. tion. Now the auto companies have lost several million dollars on their HEARINGS EXPOSE TIE-U- P price raising adventure. But their ANTI-UNIOcash position continues to be great OF BERKSHIRE CO. er than it was in 1929. There is no question about their ability to make READING, Pa. (UNS) Anun the ground they lost last fal other exhibit of man Already they are preparing to in chinery used by employers in their troduce new designs for the 1939 efforts to evade the law is on dismodel. Millions of dollars must be play at Reading, Pa., at hearings spent some time this spring upon conducted by the National Labor complete retooling for next years Relations Board against the Berkmodel. The parts and machine toe shire Knitting Mills, worlds largmanufacturers must perease their est hosiery plant. Charges of unfair labor practices were brought against this Now available in Received large shipment of titan of the hosiery industry by Steinies the American Federation of Ho- ' Union Made Clothing, Hats the more consiery Workers, which claimed tha and Shoes for Fall showing. venient bottle, Berkshire Employes Associathe Come in and see them. Jumand tion is a company union set up by ecobos the Berkshire management to underfamily-siz- e mine nomical the C. I. O. hosiery union. FINER BEER-Han- dier 59 East 2nd South bottle Bottles PORTENTS WELL FOR THE NEW DEAL of-the- auto-ownin- 1938 Page 3 ed in the primaries if they have cial aspect of it. Three other the nerve to seek nomination, and prizes for $500, $250, and $100 will if nominated, are sure to fail of also be awarded. The new congress elected this fall is bound to be more liberal and more favorable to a reform program of the President. Many of the reactionary-minde- d congressmen, who desire reelection, will join with the liberals in this session of congress in enacting the main part of the Roosevelt program late in the session. Thus we have every reason to predict that the New Deal program I. O. UNION STILL AHEAD C. PITTSBURGH, Pa. (UNS) At the request of the Electrical Company which claimed to have found 59 new members of the independent Transformer Workers Union, Russell Miller, field examiner for the National Labor Relations Board, held short hearings on the case at which it will be fairly treated before this was brought out that out of a total session of congress has finished its of 1038 employes, the independwork. ents had onlv 146. The United Electric, Radio and N. Y. FUR UNION WANTS Machine Workers, C. I. O., had C37 NEW WAGE AGREEMENT members, Miller testified, which still gave it a commanding maNEW YORK (UNS) Demands jority. of the New York furriers for a new agreement with the manufac- WOODWORKERS TOLD OF BIG GAINS MADE turers, providing for a week, a 25 per cent wage increase UNDER C. I. O. and 15 other points were unaniPORTLAND, Oreg. (UNS) Lamously approved at a meeting of the general executive board of the bors need for strong political acInternational Fur Workers Union, tion in the current business recession was stressed by delegates C. I. O. affiliate. The board voted full moral and and outside speakers at the first financial support of the 20,000 constitutional convention of the C. New York furriers and recom(Continued on page 5) mended that a special loan of $100,000 be raised for them. President Ben Golds report recommendPerfectly Pasteurized ing further organizational work in the unorganized fur centers in the and Canada was east, mid-weFresh Milk forParticnlarPeopIe unanimously approved. Buttermilk churned fresh GARMENT UNION TO HOLD Delicious Cottage COLLEGE ESSAY CONTEST daily. 30-ho- Allis-Chalme- rs ur ' Grade A st NEW YORK (UNS) To stimulate interest among college students in important labor problems, the International Ladies Garment Workers has announced a $1600 prize essay contest on the subject Company, Craft and Industrial Unions and their Legal Responsibilities. Undergraduates in American colleges who are candidates for a Bachelors degree in 1938 or 1939 are eligible to compete. The I. L. G. W. will award $750 first prize for the best essay submitted, which may give a general discussion of the topic or some spe- We Highly Recommend , BLUE POINT N WHITAKERS HAND MADE AND anti-unio- 12-o- 7, CUBAN KING CIGARS The ONLY Union Made Cigars on This Market Cigar Makers Union Local 224 Cheese. Order Today SUPERIOR DAIRY Hy. 3280 1865 So. State E. 11 USE Pikes Peak SUPER QUALITY FLOUR p Made By The Eusler Flour Mills z. 32-o- z. ROSENBLUMS PROGRAM Indications during the first week of the new year point to a fairer treatment of the New Deal program in congress during this session than was given it last year. The senators and congressmen who betrayed their 1936 campaign pledges and joined the Wall Street crowd in knifing the reform program are shaking in their boots. They have heard from the folks at home. In fact it is safe to predict that many of the Judases will be defeat- - Best Wishes to Labor! 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