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Show o 4 Published by the Salt Lake Federation of Labor in tlie Interest of the Men and Women Who Work for Wages. kVol. 1, No. 38 Salt Lake City, Utah, Mar . 31, 1917 Price 5 Cents Ml Ml HOTIECnH-- AI Nearly everyone who has achieved greatness and those who have had greatness thrust upon them has rushed into print on compulsory military training. Most of them think it Just the proper thing as a protection Against foreign foes, real or imaginary. They have cajoled, pleaded, threatened and appealed to the patriotism of men who will be expected to fill the trenches, always keeping before us the honor of changing our present jhasters foi a foreign one. The panorama of imso has horrors affected them aginary extends vision their far beyond that the horizon and the real menace Which is constantly growing more inen&cing seems to be entirely overlooked because of close contact. These men of large affairs who so Clearly see the danger that will befall the nation from depopulated Europe after the war If we neglect to prepare for an invasion are quite content to ever-changi- . ot BUSINESS ROTTEN TWENTY BUYERS AGAINST UNIONS Day and Night Store Garnering None of the $125,000 Spent Weekly by Labor News Readers. Drug Clerk says that the Twenty Buyers club, a combination of druggists who wrere originally organized to purchase drugs advantageously, Is bending every effort possible to keep drug clerks from getting working conditions that are essential to good cit- i . The efforts of the Retail Clerics to Induce the Day and Night store to grant the same hours that other merchants give them are meeting with encouragement from .the union men and women of the city. Of the more than 5000 weekly readers of the Utah Labor News, not one Of them but is confining his purchases to those places that grant employees reasonable hours. Surely a union man ii? not spendmoney intelliing his union-earne- d gently when he encourages employers In disregarding reasonable demands Of employees. When there is so much business on Main street that all cannot get served during reasonable hours there are numerous other Streets and plenty of men willing to open other stores. If the Day and Night store management finds it profitable to keep open until midnight it will be only a short while until similar places do the Some thing. The public will be no better served, for there, is only a certain amount of business that can be done. It can easily be done without compelling clerks to work from early morn until midnight.The Day .and Night store clerks are helpless in the matter, it is up to the buying public to spend money in Other stores and give them an opportunity of waiting on you where employers treat them decently. - i " ' foster a condition more menacing to our countrys welfare because it is at present productive of profit. We sometimes think these wild imaginings of some of our foremost men are given publicity for the same purvendors pose that patent medicine tell of this and that statesman having used Peruna and Swamp-Rojust to get us to forget the ills that are real in anticipating the necessity of having at hand an antidote for something that might befall. When the'workers ask for compulsory state insurance for the workingman it is opposed, for we must have nothing compulsory that cannot be of profit to big business, but who would advocate compulsory military training as a source of profit to big business? That would be unpatriotic. Still, not only compulsory state industrial insurance, but compulsory life insurance are things that are of greater moment to our future greatness than is compulsory military training. Life Insurance has come to be about , C. O. YOUNG HERE has been devoting his energies to the bettering of tonditioils in the ranks of the toilers in our neighboring state of Idaho, With Mrs. Young called at Labor News Office during the week. Mr. and Mrs. Young will probably be located at Sait Lake for some time. C. O. Young, who izenship. The drug clerks are asking employers to grant a ten-hoday with two Sundays off each month. Several employers have readily granted these reasonable demands, but others who would do so are threatened by the Twenty Buyers club if they dare to fall In line. Mr, Dayton, who operates a drug store on State and Second South street, is the active member of the Twenty Buyers club and his efforts to keep other members of the club from treating employees fairly have been successful because of the loss that could be inflicted by being deprived of the clubs ability to buy cheaply. On the whole, Mr. Union Man, dont you believe it your duty to buy drugs where the Drug Clerks are treated ur fairly? After the drug clerks are put the biggest businese in the country. Hardly a man but recognizes the necessity of insurance as a protection to his family. Becauso of the likelihood of our loved ones being deprived of lifes needs in the event of accident or sickness, prudent men have protected them, or attempted to protect them, by paying a premium to Insurance companies which assumed, that re- sponsibility. Tlie dependents of these men are likely to become a charge on the the state, for they must be clothed and fed and educated if they are to take their placer in affairs of the future. Insurance thus becomes an econom- question for the several states. It just as necessary for the future of the state that the dependents of those who are a prohibitive risk be provided for as those of the risk that is likely to prove profitable. Because the needs of dependents are the same in either case, and because the insurance companies will not assume all risks, seems to make it imperative that the state should sume the role of protector. Of course the insurance companies would have no objection to the state insuring these bad risks if the state left the good risks for the insurance companies, but it is a question that ought to be solved in the Interest of the community welfare and the state should reserve to itself the insurance (Continued on Page 12. ic Is . .Without exception every state the union has found it necessary to legislate in order to protect the beneficiaries of the insured. Only a few years ago an investigation of the big insurance companies resulted in scanin dal. Officials paid to themselves salaries disproportionate to the services performed and loaned the funds to companies and individuals with little or no security. However, there are a great number of men who are unable to get life insurance because the risk is too great. out of business soma other union will bo the next on the program. You can protect yourself and help some good union boys get conditions that will allow them to live like human beings by patronizing those stores that display the sigrn of industrial decency the drug clerks house card. Look for it with your next purchase, they're all over town. Big business has been running Kalt Lake until the present time and for all except big business it has been a dismal failure. Suppose we make it equally attractive to the working people. IJETfi OIT ! Ill II. A VI II HOI IV Lansing, Mich., March 30. The w of Dephilanthropy troit manufacturers was exposed by State Commissioner of Labor Cunningham, who urged changes in the compensation law before a legislative committee. The state official said that the Cadillac Motor Car company takes out of the pay envelope for sickness so much per day, and that of the manufacturers of Michigan do The 'speaker cited the same thing. this as proof that the compensation rates are not high enough, and quoted this statement by an officer of the Detroit chamber of commerce: At the Cadillaa Morot Car company Mr. J. M. Eaton says it is made practically a condition of employment and used aa a vehicle for free medical service given by the company." idely-adv- ertised two-thir- ds fI SPECIAL FEDERATION MEETING An advertisement appeared recenta newspaper in Iowa City, la., stating that 2000 men were wanted for construction work at the army post at American Lake, in' Washington state. This is a fake no men are needed at the present time, and when the construction work begins there are plenty of men in Tacoma and Seattle to fill all positions. Stephen Appleby, who has this matter in hand, said: This is an out rageous thing. I have no Idea who put such an advertisement In the paper, and steps should be taken to get the news all over the country. No men are needed here. There are enough men in Tacoma to handle all the work at the army post for some time yet, and If more are needed, steps can be taken to get them. ly in . ROLL OF HONOR A. Caffall purchased ten of shares Labor Temple stock this week, being the, only applicant for stock up to the time of going to press. Union men should get busy now and make application for this stock and by next labor day we could have it paid for and no one miss the money. Union men in other cities own their labor temples and Salt Lake unionists could do the same thing If they had a little more pep in their make-uThe trouble here seems to be that for every two or three boosters there n is a knocker and about a who are willing that the other fellow do the work necessary to keep the organization going. Get busy, boys, and make the roll of honor list a long one until we have the temple paid for. Mary p. ASBRIDGE, President Salt Lakeederation of Labor.-Wethe undersigned delegates to the Salt Lake Federation of Labor, hereby petition you to' call a special meeting of the Salt Lake Federation of Labor Sunday, April 1, 1917, at 12 m., to consider a settlement of the difficulties existing with Saltair. JOHN MULLINS, Cooks and Waiter 8 Id. D. O. JACOBS, Carpenters Dist. Council. R. H. IIOPLEY, Iron Workers Local No. 27. A. E. HARVEY, Barbers No. 377. G. W. FAI1Y, Electrical Workers No. 3.5L A. F. MOORE, Typographical No. 115. C. II. JOHNSON, Painters Local No. 77. JOSEPH LANE, Bartenders No. 721. MPu OTTO ATTEMPT TO FLOOD THE LABOR MARKET half-doze- , I I BRICK M t K IOHM STHIKS. St. Louis, Mo., March 30. Over 3000 unorganized brick makers, tile workers and other employees in brick yards and tile plants suspended work to enforce their demand for an eight-hoday and a $2.40 wage rate. They were working ten hours for $2.10. Secretary Kreyling of the Central Trades and Labor union, together with other unionists, are assisting the strikers, who now realize the necessity for ur In accordance with the laws of the federation thp request of peti- tioners is panted and there is hereby called a special meeting of the Salt Lake Federation of Labor for the time and place petitioned for, O. E. ASBRIDGE, to consider the matter mentioned. President Salt Lake Federation of Labor. t |