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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 3, 1935. 2 latior Utaj) Established 1929 4 matter March 28 1930 at the post office Entered as second-clas- s at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Official publication of the Utah State Federation of Labor. $1.50 per annum Subscription rates by request. Advertising Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. Publisher M. I THOMPSON L. M. THOMPSON Office Manager WIIAT CAN YOU EXPECT? fight The Utah Labor News is wag ing against the predatory interests in this state. These letters come from people men and women, in all walks life. This week we received, among others, a letter from the vice pres ident of a manufacturing concern who evidently endorses the figh we are carrying on against the enemies of the people. Withou giving names, we reproduce the letter, which reads as follows: I have before me an issue of the Utah Labor News of April 26 May I take this means o congratulating whoever is responsible for the article 'The Awakening of the People and also 'Main street Gang which appear on the front page? If there were more publications in this city fearless enough to say what they really thought about some of the things for the best interests of the people of this state conditions might be very much bet ter than they are here at the pres ent time. Again congratulating you and wishing you success in your under takings, I am, Very truly yours, 1935. tion of the National Recovery Act When the National Recovery Act became effective, Ginn & Co. 48 were working their employes hours per week and were the only school book manufacturers in the United States whose employes declared worked over 44 hours, the Boston Allied Printing Trades council in a statement regarding the strike. The concern automatically reduced their hours to 40 and reduced their employes likewise until the slash reached 28 per cent. The officials of the company did not only refuse to bargain collectively. In addition they declined to accept the proposal of their employes to arbitrate wages and work conditions. In a letter to labor organizations the Allied Printing Trades council requested that union committees ask school boards to refrain from buying books from Ginn 7-- A andCo. until the present labor pute is settled. dis- Just Arrived COMPLETE NEW SPRING CLOTHING FOR MEN All Union Label ROSENDLUMS 59 East 2nd South We Display the Union Card After the Wrestling Try a Clean, Fresh Glass of BEER - 15 Ounce 10c FISHER BEER, in your 26 Ounce 15c 75c jug Gal. ERATIHIG 906 SOUTH MAIN STREET FRANK ERATH, Jr., Prop. Member H. and R. E. and B. D. I. A. Local 721 Open All Night Entertainment Every Night 7 Utah Well Represented at Chamber Gathering, was the head If you want to continue to live line of a special story to the morning paper from Washington, D. C. on a status, just U. b. the of The special read as follows: At the opening session Perfectly Pasteurized non-unibasis. on a keep buying well was Lafayette Utah represented, Commerce of Chamber today, Hanchett appearing for Salt Lake City, Gus P. Backman for Brigham products, By buying non-uniRobinson for Action at Last City, Randall L. Jones for Cedar City, Representative in the himself the worker Fresh Milk forParticulsrPeepIe places to local interest of At last the government is going same category as a strikebreaker. Provo and L. W. Clayton for Ogden. No business to a high court with an NRA case. Utah was considered at the opening session. Buttermilk churned fresh IIow can the people of Utah expect to benefit when such a co- The case is important and clear Delicious Cottage daily. terie of representatives are in Washington at the chamber ot com- cut. It involves a company which Cheese. merce gathering a3 is listed in the above morning paper special front was indicted on 19 counts for vioOrder Today lating the live poultry code. These . page news item. counts ran all Gus the from is The Scarlet Pimpernel way selling It is noted that Gus P. Backman represents Brigham City. SUPERIOR DAIRY diseased birds to overworking and Also May Robson in secretary of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, and has been in worsers. Strangers All Hy. 3280 1865 So. State Washington for the past few weeks lobbying against all legislation underpaying The Manhattan circuit court of S. senators U. and reprehas the He for the benefit of the people. decision on the case, which T sentatives from Utah under his thumb and stays on the ground to keep appeals the a for prepared way o:: supreme chambers the for will so that they tab on them sponsor legislation court appeal, is interesting. commerce and vote against legislation which is before congress for The held that, in as much La. the benefit of the people. Gus has made statements that he has more as the judges chickens sold by the comthe than in the nations and to Deseret Mortuary) in officials Utah the with capital (Successor power pany crossed state lines, they were Utah. of within interstate commerce and people FUNERAL DIRECTOR, MORTICIAN Then there is Lafayette Hanchett. The people of Utah know who were legally subject to NRA con 20 Years of Service he is. Once upon a time, when Morgan city, in Morgan county, was trol. But they also held that the officontemplating a municipal power plant, a delegation of a dozen Telephone 164-working conditions of the comPrice, Utah cials and prominent citizens of Morgan city and Morgan county came panys employees were not an in- Ml before RFC committee of Utah to find out about securing a RPC terstate affair, and so could not be loan to build the plant. It was Hanchett who opposed the proposition regulated by the NRA or any other GREETINGS TO ORGANIZED LABOR and stated that RFC was not for the purpose of loaning money to federal agency. It is obvious that if the supreme UNION MADE SUITS TO MEASURE build municipal power plants. It was the editor of The Utah Labor court sustains this close of this the News who contacted the Morgan delegation at RFC opinion, the ACME CLEANERS AND TAILORS committee meeting, and showed the way, how and where, to get the NRA will have won a small point and lost a Without in the great build the to point. Morgan city. Later, Modern Methods municipal power plant money Efficient Service Friends of Labor control of wages and hours, the 17 E. MAIN ST. RPG administration in Washington informed the Utah committee that NRA 237 PHONE PRICE, UTAH would be virtually impotent. the R F C would loan money to build municipal power plants, but Morgan city did not need this RFC money because it had made other arrangements to build the power plant and it was constructed and is in GINN & CO.S BINDERS AND PRESSMEN STRIKE Einmmimiiimiiuuimmimiuiiiiiiiiiimiuiiiimimimmiiiiimimmiiiiiii!: operation today. It seems that the second district congressman, J. Will Robinson, REGISTER ANY DAY devotes more of his time to representing chambers of commerce in the By A. F. of L. News Service L. D. S. Training Doesnt Cost nations capital than he does to the legislation that the people desire. Cambridge, Mass. Two hundred It Pays! E and The big business organizations are spending money to maintain THE ROAD OF TODAY AND TOMORROW sixty union employes in the 5 THE HIGHWAY OF ACHIEVEMENT E lobbyists in Washington, and they are there looking after big business press room and bindery of Ginn & Co., manufacturers of school text interests. Free, Honest, Employment Service E books But, we predict that the time is here when the people themselves States sold throughout the United and Canada, struck for betwill raise money enough to send their own representatives to Washter and work conditions and wages to see the are that ington people getting a square deal. recognition of the right to collective bargaining guaranteed by Sec- is reported by observers that NEWS and COMMENT theIt lobbies influence is largely AMERICAN LINEN confined to the committees. On roll ) (Continued from page 1) call, the majority of members in SUPPLY COMPANY facturers, the U. S. chamber of both the house and the senate cast commerce, and other employer-dominate- d progressive, votes. Lobbyists eviCleanliness First! Cleanliness organizations are con- dently know this, for they are playLast! Boost, Build and Supcentrating on the defeat of the ing for time, counting heavily on your State. Use Amerport North Main Wagner Labor Relations bill, but it the legislative jam which always Wasatch 1812 E 5 ican continuous towels and is also paying a great deal of at- marks the concluding days of a all kinds of linens they fur ;miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!jjiiiiiiijiiiiill,,,,ll,,,,,,,mm, tention to the new NRA bill. The congress. nish. Support industries that outcome and millers will What the before be another lobby, packers' support you. joint affair, is devoting its time to congress adjourns, we shall see 33 East 6th South fighting amendments to the AAA what we shall see. Was. 2484-8- 5 which would permit the government to examine the books of the Thank You! IT PAYS TO KEEP packing company and the flour We are receiving many letters CLEAN trusts. the fearless daily congratulating The bankers lobby has set its heart on the defeat of the amendments to the federal reserve act. These amendments would give the federal government a- larger measure of control over money and credit. 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