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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL 12, 1935. UTAH SOLON tltaf) Salior $eto IN MEMORY TALKS IN IDAHO Established 1929 Sam F. Kiefer, the sage of the lower house of the 21st session of the Utah legislature, visited in 'second-clasIdaho last week. During his visit s Entered as matter March 28 1930 at the post office in Boise he was invited to address at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. the Boise Central Labor union. He talked on farmer-labo- r cooperation. Official publication of the Utah State Federation of Labor, and The importance of the organthe International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers. ized relation of farmers and labor............ $1.50 per annum Subscription ers in the 21st session of the Utah Advertising rates by request. legislature, said Mr. Kiefer, is not to be measured by the social Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, legislation introduced or enacted, 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. but in the terms to which it has the members of the sesinspired Published weekly at 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, sion act to in cooperation.. ' Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. Same Problems Organized labor knows little, of Publisher M. I THOMPSON the problems of organized agriculOffice Manager L. M. THOMPSON ture; almost as little as agriculture knows of labor. Both may live served to the men and women in the same county, pay the same NEWS and COMMENT working taxes on their homes and farms, in the factory. This proved a good thing, so In elect same people to office, vote the course of a year or two, he the same party ticket, go to the (Continued from page 1) a dinine room where same church, send their children to established loyees. There he dreamed that regular substantial meals, fit for the same schools, cooperate, live e some day might operate a big kings, were served to all of the as neighbors, but permit political factory, employing hundreds of la- employes. manipulators to convince them that borers, and all under union condino charge made for to live their lives they must have was There tions. Those dreams of Axton laws enacted by their legislature service. came to pass.-- At the time of his this will set labor and agriculture that this free Mr. Axton told me that death he owned one of the largest meal his was. investment best the against each other. independent tobacco factories In company ever made. Those who would keep agricul- the country, and on his payroll ture and labor working in divided The Colonel, as he was commonly were more than 1,500 happy men intifields, hate the farmer, as they known by his employes and and women. despise labor designating the one as the poor farmer' the other as Humans First common labor. They hope to keep them Wood F. divided, so that they may Axton, My good friend, as middlemen' by paying the humans first and. last. profit put profits Ilia concern during the last fiscal farmer too little, and charging labor too much. year did more than a $50,000,000 So, while the cooperation bebusines, but regardless of this tween Axton was labor and agriculture in the content great business, with the $10,000 a year salary his last session of the Utah legislature has brought out little that was company paid him. About a year ago the board of AUTO MECHANICS tangible little of profit-sharin- g directors of his company offered to . enterprises it established their L TT7rvr increase his salary to $50,000 a UlttrAiiliLiIiily complishment is found in the profit sharing motives it created in the year. But this Mr. Axton refused, lie said that the success of the those who represented larecord-inds E. A. (Bob) Worthen, bor to to extent a company goes great agriculture, me secretary of Salt Lake Ma- faithful employes and if there was chinists Have the Ability 1 No. local union 10(7, drop-going to be any salary raising, It office the Cooperation between agricul must begin with the lowest paid ped into the Labor News ture and labor has proved that in He chat. a other day for friendly employes. a union of force, (standing pat), the said that organizing campaign in the face of all the opposition-oautoLake Salt the City among Feed the Humans mobile mechanics is progressing hose who would keep them divided Another humanitarian deed of nicely. It is hoped that all un- it was able to develop labor and Wood F. Axton dates. back more organized auto mechanics .will see agriculture have the ability, the than 20 years of day, and join a bona right, and the strength to enact the In the days when the first unit fide light legislation beneficial to both, and it labor union, because it is was of his big factory had been cononly when their ranks Were only through organization and some 200 and workers structed, were employed in the factory, Ax- collective bargaining that men A VISITOR ton started serving free lunches to working in garages in Utah can to their ever C. F. (Curly) Grow, vice presexpect .improve his employees. ident of the International AssociaHe told me that one day, at noon working conditions. Monday night, more than 25 Salt tion of Machinists, with headhour, he noticed the girls working automobile mechanics signed quarters in San Francisco, stopped Lake in the factory, unwrapped newspapers that covered the sandwiches applications with Secretary E. A. for a day last week, to greet his they brought for lunch. They ate Worthen of the Machinists' union, many Salt Lake City friends, the sandwiches and drank cold for a charter for an auto mechan- while enroute to Washington, D. water. The men with their sand- ics local union. C., to attend the regular meeting of The speakers at the meeting the international union board. wiches went to the comer saloon were: A. M. Scott, M. I. Thompson, and drank a stein of beer. Brother Grow expects to reAxton thought the matter over. Frank J. Supp, and Mr. Worthen. turn from the nations capitol Another meeting will be held at about April 25, and promised to He figured out that the horses were fed with special care during the Labor temple Tuesday April stay in Utah for several days. He noon hour, then why not humans? 16, 8 p. m. All Salt Lake City auto- has a host of friends here both So he decided to establish a kitch- mobile mechanics are urged to at- within and without the labor en where at noon hour, plenty of tend. movement. rich warm soup was prepared, and The consensus of opinion with fair employers, as well as employes, is that organization of labor in the automobile industry m Utah is the only feasible plan for the stabilization of the industry, which is demoralized by chiselers at the present time. of 4 . I COLONEL WOOD F. AXTON When one unselfishly and without ostentation gives of his ability and substance for the welfare of his associates When one fills an adequate life with sincere fratenialism When one stands uncompromisingly for the principles he chamstood with a profound loyalty to his employes and friends . throughout the years With an unswerving faith in the lessons of the thick husks and man will emplains of Jericho, with an abiding faith that untutored universal and brotherhood justice universal brace at last When from among us such a man passes to a higher and brighter field of action Then can we pause in humility and in that pause respect the memory which he has left us Then can we take stock of our own possibilities and the prospects of the influence of so worthy an example. P10X1IIas Of course you are interested in weakened by those who listened to in the getting the facts. The Utah Labor the eloquent voice of Satan God the News will give the facts. carried that they livery of banner of a lost cause. It is to be hoped that those who were members of the last session; who were cooperative, who worked for and voted for those measures that are, or would have been beneficial to agriculture and labor, to one or the other, or to both will not be discouraged, but A MECHANIC are hopeful of the future. WHO FORGETS HIS TOOLS is not even half a Mechanic Marx Bros, on the Stage in Person in A Night at the Opera ... And the man who neglects his eyes, needlessly handicapping himself with faulty vision, is as useless to himself and to his job as the mechanic without tools. Perfect vision is the first requisite of business and social success. See us and see gate !fACM ac-AK- f FROM THE GOING GLEANED GREETINGS TO ORGANIZED LABOR Wellington Auto Top Company The Old better! Glasses on weekly payments if desired. Reliable" G. A. BLOOMFIELD, Mgr. 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