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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DECEMBER 4, 1936. 4 Editorial 2 EPaige TErae Utelh. Ealboir News ordered workers out. The NEWS AND COMMENT I CARBON CENTRAL strikers refused to leave. C. I. O. on Job LABOR UNION MEET . THE ACT OF LITTLE MEN sit-do- Both the international union and (Continued from Page 1) I the Committee for Industrial OrPRICE At its Refinery Workers of America, with over a dozen different class of a Florida resort. were immediately on ganization othCarbon County Steel, auto, and millions of the job, with Ilomer Martin, presiifications, has wage scales varying from $5 for roustabouts to as dent of the Automobile Workers, And we must keep in high as $15 for skilled an I Krycki and Adolph Ger- mind that before the Oil Worekrs union got on the job the issue raised by the Federation of Labor made vacant mer of the C.I.O. going to South C. I. 0. is unionization of the by resignation of Robert J. were getting little more than the roustabouts. Bend at once. son of Kenilworth, who has been industries. We could cite a number of cases in the industrial form One of the locals in the On this program all attention named deputy coal mine inspector, International, strongest the Bendix union of unions to prove the fallacy of Freys statements. As a mat have been centered, had not Joe Dowd and Ed Scherer of La- claims all but 70 of the 2600 workmight ter of fact the very opposite of Freys contention is the truth the A. F. of L. executive council tuda, and Dave Day of Columbia, ers in the plant. The aggressive that so long as workers remain unorganized declared it insurrection and driven were the three endorsed, n drive through a skeleA request for endorsement of a ton unions out of its ranks. company union began after a they constitute a major threat to the high wage standards of the the C. I. 0.created diversion this local union newspaper strike threat last summer secured Having proposed skilled craftsmen, be they building tradesmen, metal tradesmen, from the main issue, the council was voted down unanimously. Simi-the- n a general wage increase for all or anything else. hypocritically declared that lar action to the proposal had been workers that went into effect on Any honest trade unionist, who knows anything, must ad- majority rule" and peace and taken at a meeting of the repre Sept. 1. n sentatives of the local unions of mit that the workers can be effectively organ- unity" were the real issues. During the same period, the was olive branch The of the Mine United National Workers of Labor Relations Board peace" ized only by the industrial union approach. wielded like a club to break the America. an ordered election to determine inA little shifting of jurisdictional claims would permit C. I. 0., to divide its ranks, and to A. P. Kohlenburg, international the bargaining agency in the plant. dustrial and craft unions to function amicably side by side, and create the impression that all representative of the Machinists Fearing the outcome of such an if we had statesmen on the A. F. of L. executive council in- would be hunkydory if peace apd union, addressed the central body. election, the management secured Mr. Kohlenburg has been here to an injunction restraining the board. stead of little men with swell heads and big salaries this whole unity" were restored. decouncil had the draw Yet, really up an agreement between the enthing could have been ironed out to the satisfaction of the sired unity and majority rule, it Machinists local union and emHoward Denounces tire American labor movement. could have had it by simply re- ployers. I. O. C. William Green talks a lot about the violating scinding the suspension that caus The meeting urged the sheep A.F. of L. Dictatorship democratic procedure, but we are willing to make a wager ed the disunity and by allowing the shearers of the district to join the to deal with Sheep Shearers Union of North that if the A. F. of L. were democratically to submit this issue A.he F. of L. convention INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. (UNS) with all matter, America before they engage in that represented. to the membership in the form of a referendum the Lewis posiI Dictatorship by means of suspendBut the real issue has been, is, line of employment next year. was trounced by ing opponents, tion would be upheld by a landslide majority. and will continue for long to be President Charles P. Howard of organization. Even if the C. I. 0. A. w:.. the International trftrl,pra Typographical Will were so recreant to its duty as to Wm. Green, SIT-DOW- N in to wire a Union, TIIE TAMPA surrender its industrial organiza- , With I. Aid over the American Fedpresiding tion program to the kiss of death eration of Labor convention in with which ihe council would seal , S0UTH BEND Ind FlorTampa. has been in progress at Tampa, A strange (UNS) the bond ot its fictitious unity, Howard protested against Nearly j00 p,r cei;t c , or(ln. Greens ida, remarks an editorial in the Union News Service. While this issue would not down. ized United Automobile Workers challenging the C. I. O. working people in many factories have sat down on the job as a union won out the demands made unions to come back to their seats from the Bendix Corporation in a and fight in man fashion, after means of bettering their conditions, or to prevent being locked Will Frey Choose To Freeze? the A. F. of L. executive council out by their employers, the sitters of Tampa have conducted the John P. Freys proposal to boy- stubborn fight which lasted for had them from the convencott the products of C. I. 0. unions several weKl Fifteen nnT,ea tion barred first against labor. and sent them no credentials. deunion stayed of a bleak !??en?j)er.s No cold, foodless factory, but pleasant hotel lobbies and conjures You failed to say delegates repAnd more than 1,000,000 sunlit sands, were the scene of Tampas strange Ma- - resenting not in their seats bemembers are long swivel-cha- ir experience made the ordeal all the easier for uanof olhlrZfofmem. cause of an illegal action bv your SupportTby the labor officials involved. Clothed m naught but his. birth- - bers, friends and relatives who executive Howard committee, but to to a not was lockout, day suit, lest he wear underwear passed in food, coffee, tobacco, wired. Tampa's prevent The action of your executive on the job, produced by the United Textile blankets and coats from the outmaintain one. And finally it has not been a socks made council in suspending delegates, workers, suspended by the strikers side, but as far away from it as possible. steadfastly fash- - fused to leave the plant until the and thereby excluding them from or suits Workers, Union organization and the improvement of working con- ioned by the Amalgamated Cloth- recognized their union the convention, savors of dictatorditions were the jobs for which the experienced sitters of Tam- ing Workers, our Spartan foe of management as the bargaining agency for Ben-th- e ship to retain control. Retaining C. I. 0. would have to deny dix workers and adjusted numer-himse- lf control by suspending your opposipa were hired by the working people whose employes they are. heat from the coal dug by us grievances that have accumu-Unite- d tion is not generally accepted as Th6 American Federation of Labor, believe it or not, was democratic policy. lated in the past few months. Mine Workers. formed to unite labor and to promote the organization of the Favoritism to union Even an oil stove to warm his company unorganized. How, Indeed? form would have to be members, representing a small shivering Man in All was peace and harmony in the A. F. of L. fold until e hunting suit Have you manage-thplus employes, lest he encourage thereby noriy rabbits comthat you could sell me ? any the demand became insistent that its leaders get down to the agitation by insurrectionary Oil Workers Butcher leaders the No; but we have some aamst job for which they were hired. They could bear this demand Union. Well might he change from I ?any?Tn nice a sausages. precipitated with dignified inaction so long as it came only from outside, Frey to Freeze! strike in the plant. Mahoney Customer Well, how can I tell Exercise might help, perhaps, then had from the unorganized. But when it was taken up by powerful the plant shut down and my wife that I shot a sausage? for he certainly could not use any unions and aggressive leaders within their own ranks, it was auto produced by the C. I. 0. Auto more than they could stand. They sat down. Workers. But having included the For Gifts Dad and Mother Will Enjoy, See . . . But first they locked out the troublemakers. So long as International Typographical union in his ban, the scholarly Frey the Committee for Industrial Organization just talked of organcould no longer pore over the could it L. but F. council was executive the A. of irritated, izing, tomes tolerate the situation. But when the C. I. O. actually launched read a of Gompers day not even paper. the giant steel drive, and industrial organization began taking And when we consider C. I. 0 hold in auto, rubber, and other unorganized industries, the inroads in the steel and other council locked the C. I. O. unions out of the Federation. big modem industries, it is gravely to be feared that Freys sterling effective An convention. opthe then And came Tampa FRIENDS OF LABOR principles would finally ostracize excludposition was shut out by an unconstitutional suspension, him from all civilized society. ing a third of the Federations membership. The little group of But at least he would have the officials thus had things all their way. and satisfaction of carrying to a logiBut still they could not shut out the demand for union or- cal conclusion the suspension polganization which they had scorned, nor the cries of outrage at icies of the A. F. of L. executive (Continued from Page 1) rig-builde- rs. rig-build- ers Ilender-mass-producti- on mass-producti- on anti-unio- . mass-productio- Kulu c. o. sit-do- I sit-do- sit-dow- SA Sita S, n. sit-do- sit-do- ment-sponsor- ed sit-do- go-slo- do-nothi- w ng their splitting of the labor movement. Confronted with a crisis, council. which they could only meet by ending their lockout of the C. I. O. unions and actually joining in the work of organizing, they RADIO UNION GAINS sat and worried Like the Rock of Gibraltar of their speeches, IN G. E. STRIKE they would not move. And from the belly of American labor, in the thick of its NEW Pa. KENSINGTON, Armistice Day brought struggle with the masters of millions in steel, auto, rubber and (UNS) all the other great industries, came a mighty laugh at the little peace to the General Electric plant after an eight-wee- k strike men of Tampa who imagined they could stop the world by sit- here, and a settlement to Snajpjp)i?u muailln INSIST ON GETTING satisfactory ting still I January 4, 1937 Registration for Winter Quarter j The University of Utah It is not too late to begin your college work Courses for Freshmen and all new entrants will be offered ,, Prepare Now to Enroll! 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