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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. APRIL 26, 1935. UNION TEACHERS STANDARD AND WILSHIRE OIL FIRMS BOYCOTTED BY CALIFORNIA LABOR (Continued from page 1) interest of the laboring classes in education is more vital than that By A. F. of L, News Service which can afford San Francisco, Cal. Because of of the well-to-d- o its refusal to recognize the Interto pay for private schooling. Considering the disposition of national Seamens union as the so many teachers to keep them- representative of tanker seamen, California State Federation of selves aloof from the struggle of the Labor by a unanimous vote put the manual labor to hold its own, the of the Standard Oil comproducts loyalty of the latter to the schools pany of California on the We is touching, if not surprising. Dont Patronize list of the FederOrganization among teachers ation. The Federation also placed is imperatively needed to stem the the Wilshire Oi1 company on larising tide of brutal reaction and bors unfair list because of its intimidation, writes Dr. Dewey, stubborn refusal to meet the rep-i- n I resentatives of the Oil Workers' citing the Ilearst on and its ignoring an invita-interes- ts attack as an example of the vested fear that the public will i10n or a conference with the educated. The organized ceAra ?the Federation. statement signed by Edward drive against freedom of inquiry j) -- red-baiti- ng I Seamen for the purpose of collective bargaining. After months of dilatory tactics on the part of operators the elections for the Pacific coast tanker trade were held resulting in 709 ballots for the Seamens union, 221 ballots for the company union promoted by the Standard Oil company, 25 ballots for the Communist union and 22 ballots for various private individuals. Oil company The Standard alone refused to recognize the International Seamens union, the State Federation of Labor declared. But when the negotiations with the other oil companies resulted in a deadlock the Standard Oil company promptly took the leadership m a declaration of war upon the International Seamens union. This is consistent with the well established policy of that company. Because of the militant attacks made on the labor movement of California by these two companies, the State Federation of Labor asked organized workers in California not to patronize any Standard Oil or refrain from doing so. HOME TOWN FOLKS YOU CAN DEPEND ON By JOHN EDWIN PRICE Though my wife cooks me the finest meals imaginable, says Im the handsomest man in seven counties, and kisses me seventy times seven times before I go to bed. at night, yet if she is not loyal to me the rest means nothing. Though a person boast of the beauties of his home town when he is away from home and argue for patriotism until he is black in the face, yet DOES NOTHING to make his home town better, then his words are worse than sounding brass and clanging cymbals. On the other hand you may not be rich, or clever, or yet if you give loyalty to whom loyalty is due your neighbors will overlook a lot and love you just the same. Folks who are busy planning ways of being loyal to their home town havent time to spread smut, knock the churches, labor unions, lodges, clubs or schools, or speak ill of their relatives. Of course there are a lot of folks who are loyal but not in our particular way. They had a different home training, are different by nature and their experiences incline their interests differently. Line fifty of your friends up against a mental wall. Look them over as they stand there. In general you class them as dependable folks, loyal to the best interests of the town. Now place neat little black and white signs along the top of that wall with one of the following words on each: CHURCH, LABOR UNION, LODGE, LI BRARY, CLUB, SCHOOL, HEALTH, BEAUTY, MISCELLANEOUS. Now rearrange the lineup of your friends so they stand under the sign representing their predominant interests. Some express loyalty in so many ways that we had to have the MISCELLANEOUS sign. We had to include BEAUTY for there is quite a movement now to clean up, paint up and rearrange our town with BEAUTY in mind. The service club in one town is planting lilacs wherever they will grow. In other ways towns are given a personality. . Strong loyalty may be expressed in doing all possible business in ones home town so that business and professional people may have a chance to earn more with which to do more for their towns. Some folks hesitate to work for the home town for fear their efforts wont be appreciated. It is better to be active in good works though not appreciated, than to miss the joy which comes in the consciousness that you have done what you could to make the world a bit better for having lived in it a while. Christ was practically alone when his crisis came because His hey-da- y followers hadnt absorbed the truth that when put to the test Home-tow- n an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. folks you can depend on seem to have as their life theme song: Take My Life and Let It Be Lived in Loyalty to Thee. good-lookin- g, vilifications and outright members of the International Sea-lie- s. The enemy that is being mens union returned to work is the education of the pub- - ter the longshoremens strike on lie in political and economic teal- - July 31, 1934, it was with the as- surance presented through the Naities. tional Longshoremens board that Join a Union What can be done? Dr. Dewey the operators would meet with the asks.' The direct answer is: Join duly elected representatives of the locals of the American Federation Who knows the inside of these of Teachers where they exist; help OLD TIMER ON form them where they do not exist. places? No one but the convict and CONVICT LABOR his word is not taken for anything, The ordinary objections to this proalthough it has been said that there cedure are silly. They spring either is among thieves. He may from snobbishness, fear of repriWith your permission I will state be honesty the truth. telling sals, or down-rigmisconceptions my views on the employment of As things are at present, every such as the idea that a teachers convict labor, and the disposal of time YOU buy an article without union might be called upon to joiji prison-mad- e goods, on which I have the union label, you are, helping a sympathetic strike. Even if these been studying for many years. to flood the country with the unMy suggestion is to limit the objections possessed more force employed and overproduction and than they do and the abstinence production in federal and state are supporting private profit of of the American Federation of La- prisons and of convict farm labor. prison contractors. It has been no convict shall produce over said man does not get his bor from direct political action by That a that a limited amount in 36 hours per nature here, but , brings it with organized labor IS objectionable in week the to be placed him; I dont believe that the profmy opinion they are completely on the openproduction labeled market, iteer human in labor his overshadowed by larger realities. ade, the prices to be the nature with him. lie brought is called a The aggressive united front same as for like products of free business not a or a man, gambler manual and intellectual workers labor. Then when the prison-mad- e OLD should include, according to Dr. goods are sold, the convict shall game - of chance man. TIMER. Dewey, not only teachers but also be allowed a per cent on his pronot only ban sales talks on Sun should be represented on the newspaper men, writers, actors; ductions, a man with a family be and ministers. I would heartily allowed a per cent according to day which originate in Canada, but board of directors. will also ban similar talks - over Dr. Dewey each dependent, and this percentsecond the motion outlets in Canada of the Nation An emphatic denunciation of writes, of Heywood Broun for an age be turned over to the depenthe and al employers who have such little Broadcasting company alliance of teachers with the News dents, thus preventing their being charon and Columbia Broadcasting ..system regard for the economic welfare; dependent paper Guild. Actors and writers pauperized of codes' NRA' of influence' The of America as to discriminate A man who' no has depenare organized or beginning to or- ity." in women workers by payco-r- e fair to dents be wages small a W. practices raising Col against percentAnderson, given Henry ganize. Ministers in the churches on his production when his and providing employment for idle ceiver of the Seaport Airline Rail- ing them lower wages than men, age while not yet widely organized for term has so that he may workers is shown in the report by way company, and member of for characterized an address by Senother than purely professional pur- be able to expired, and go away forget the Roy H. Cheney, managing direc- mer President Hoovers Wicker-sha- ator Robert F. Wagner, before the poses, through their various organ past and live a better life. Too tor of the Underwear Institute, (Continued on Page 4) committee, does not believe izations, have spoken more and often the convict is released and who says that the code for the that the stockholders anc more openly about the injustices is unable to get work and becomes underwear and allied products in- financiers large To California who control the Amerof the present order. What is need- a man without a flag (home), and dustry had placed 16,500 addi- ican railroads can extricate the AND DENVER FURNITURE MOVED alliance o: is often barred because of his rec tional employes on the payrolls railroad ed is an aggressive from present By Bonded Experts No these various groups. Divided we ord. And no matter how small of the industry, and paid them conditions,industry which he described as Crating Neceaeary. Call or Write may fall. United, we shall stand, his misdeed it many times carries wages amounting to $10,000,000. chaotic and becoming dangerous MOLLERUP MOVING CO. sentence to labor. own do a our hard shall and in standing without assistance of the vast 155 So. West Templs Was. 1562 on are Convicts often farms Railroad executives will initiate special work. of railroad workers. He deworse off than slaves in the 50s. proceedings soon after May 1 for body clared that labor should be guar a huge wage cut below the levels anteed a reasonable wage, and that aiiiitiiiiiiiiiimiiitiiiiiiMiiimmiiim Federal School Funds Amerwhich debecame effective April 1, it after providing for expenditure on At the convention of the the district, such need to be ican Federation of Teachers last termined by the school population was announced in Chicago by W. improvement and reasonable capi summer, it was resolved that the and the taxable resources of the F. Thiefhoff, general manager of tal charges, labor and capital should share any excess earnfollowing principles be adopted in locality, the sum thus allocated by the Burlington railroad, and chairdrawing up suggested legislation: the federal government to be ex- man of the conference committee ings. Both groups, he agreed, 1. That educational opportunity clusive of state aid, and not as a of railroad executives, which conducted the labor negotiations with for the children of the nation be substitute for it. the railroad labor representatives. aid. federal U. the from latest The reports equalized through 2. That federal taxation for the S. office of education, Washington, Greetings to Labor no has The be industry education liquor of education The in general support emergency say: but only privileges MESSINGER recognized as indispensable in any is fully as extensive as last year. rights sound scheme of educational sup- More than of the school which the government grants, acTRUCK LINE children of the United States are cording to Joseph Choate, Jr., port. alcohol of the federal chairman ' 3. That federal funds raised for in school districts without suffiSalt Lake and Preston, Idaho educational purposes be not less cient funds to operate schools the control administration. Daily Service, 7 Days a Week than $600,000,000, that they be im- customary school term. 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