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Show Review ole Cuamrent LlViUK trjfirxuisr ojf uz h Evento MAY 4 )937 EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE -m- -smfmmt News and Comment Judicial Stop 0 Dictatorship By M. I. T. CONGRESSMAN ABE MURDOCK REPLIES TO UTAH OPPONENTS OF COURT REFORM ed MOTHERS DAY leadinability to call a spade a spade has marked the craft In the Heavens above, ership of what is left of the A. F. of L., ever since it embarked The angels, whispering to .Utah on its crazy, suicidal and unsuccessful struggle to prevent union another, and tells the Can find, among their burning organization of the n industries. Congressman Abe Murdock replies to the Council for the Preservation of the Constitution, council where he stands on the question of federal court reform. The Utah congressman asks, "What have its members ever done to preserve the Constitution besides print forms for someone else to sign? What was the Council for the Preservation of the Constitution doing when the Constitution was really in danger: during the years 1920-193when monopolists were seizing the powers of government, corrupting the laws and lawmakers, prostituting Americanism for private profit, stealing the wages of the worker and robbing the farmer of his income, wrecking the money system and plunging the American people into financial and moral bankruptcy? so-call- mass-productio- terms of love, None so devotional as , that mother. ... THE CONGRESSMANS LETTER Washington, D. C., April 28, 1937 . Utah Labor News, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Friend: The other day I received a letter from a citizen of. Utah, which I quote below: I am in receipt of a letter from the Utah Council for the Preservation of the Constitution asking me to write you and ask you to vote NO to the President's proposal to pack the, Supreme Court. Please vote NO. Attached t& the letter was a printed form, which read as follows: Make your influence felt in Washington! Write or wire today (Continued on Page 2) A TOWN OF COOPERATORS Eighth in the Series of Articles On Cooperation Appearing In the Utah Labor News ..In Maynard, Mass., where 90) office... The manager, would give us codates and figures that mark of' p operative societies, cooperators are Maynard history. But this is a visit to see cooperators in ac doing business in out of 1500 families belong to co-o- many-lines- . A typical New England mill town Maynard looks, as you drive through the outskirts. But arriving at the intersection leading to its heart you get a sudden new impression. On the corner stands a modem little shop that would be quite as much at home on Fifth Avenue or the Hue de Rivoli. The letters on its shining face spell Next United Co-o- p Society. door a smart filling station blazp emblem just as ons the brightly. Turning into the Main street we drive only a block or- two before we meet cooperation in concrete This time we see form again. above the doors of one of the stores UNITED COOPERATIVE SOCIETY OF MAYNARD. In that store consumers can buy meats, groceries, vegetables, bakery products, furniture, and paints. Evidence of Cooperation A tour through the rest of Maynard crosses the trail of other evip dences of cooperation. One truck delivers milk, - another ice. We follow a third to home base and find the large railroad side-yar- d which is the headquarters of fuel and oil business. the co-o- p We could of course go back to the main store and get our information direct from the cooperative co-o- - tion. The story we want is from the people who like or dislike, be long to or stay out of, use or ob We ject to, the Maynard can check up on dates and figures later. So now we look for a place to stay. Maynard is not a tourist town It has no camps nor cottages nor swank hotels to lure the casual motorist. It is a town going about its own business. Its woolen mil stands massive on the banks of the little Assabet river rippling through the business district. Up and down, from thousands of employes in the war years to hun dreds in the depression, employ ment at the mill is the backbone of the towns economic life. Accommodations are keyed to the needs of mill employes, not tourists. We ask around and learn the name of a mill family who might take us in, and climb to the too of the highest hill to find our host. The pretty young daughter does the honors, which is our luck for the mother and father of this house speak little but their native Finnish. The room they provide is spick and span, the yellow woodwork shining with we learn later cooperative varnish. Drinking afternoon coffee in the (Continued from page 3) of E. A. POE in To My Mother. Life is a series of broadening expanding with experience 2, Mr. M. I. Thompson, Publisher, at first, its center is the mother whose love and patience and faith have given us the courage to car- ry on. Even as she followed our first faltering footsteps across the playroom floor, so have her counsel and sympathy and prayers guided and supported us throughout the years. Perhaps, though absent, we are in closer understanding with her now than we ever were before. If we cannot on this Mothers Day gladden her heart with an acknowledgement of our indebtedness, we can at least pass on to the children who are around us the spiritual treasures that are our heritage from mother. co-o- ment of all, he claimed that the unions he was throwing out of the A. F. of L. were withdrawing. Actually that act of midsummer madness on the part of the council was far more than a suspension. Both Green and the council knew it well, though they could not bring themselves to say so. It was in effect as definite as an expulsion could be. It deprived the C. I. O. unions of their voting rights and divided hopelessly a movement which the C. I. 0. had sought to unite and strengthen. Even at the Tampa convention of the A. F. of L. the craftist split- continued on Page 8) Coal Miners Meet Condemns Senator King , . over-modest- . y. delegates unanimously voted to have a committee draft a resoMOBlution and telegraph it to Senators William H. King of Utah and of Wyoming, condemning their stand STERS FIND HAVEN Joseph O'Mahoney in on President ANTI-UNIO- N co-o- p. By LEN DE CAUX Some time ago mine operators of the area of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri organized a strikebreaking outfit to fight the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, then affiliated with the A. F. of L. They gave their company union a name as similar as possible to the real union, to add trickery to their tri-sta- te Tri-Sta- te tri-sta- te or pick-handle- s, Typographical Union Adopts A New Newspaper Scale anti-unio- m The Committee for Industrial Organization was originally founded for the purpose of organizing the millions of unorganized into the A. F. of L So long as this laudable purpose was in the stage of declarations the executive council contented itself with viewing it with alarm. But when the C. I. O. proved as good as its word and succeeded in bringing tens of thousands of new members juay into the A. F. of L in the onto and rubber industries, and in launching a great campaign to organize the steel workers into the A. F. of L union, the council turned on the movement it was supposed to head and split it in half with one fell blow. When William Green announced the suspension of the C. I. O. unions last August, however, he could not bring himself to describe this act for what it was. He would not even call it by its technical, legal name of a suspension." To the amuse- The Labor Situation Every man for himself was the community motto concerning the working man in the good olde days, before labor unions. If one tradesman wanted to work 14 hours a day he cut his hour rate so that another less aggressive Scale Negotiating Committees Chosen for Utah and Wyoming man had too little work and he too Meet Denies Right of Local Unions to Call a Strike much for his own good. The less Utah This Week With Operators Wyoming Operators aggressive man might have been a . Will Meet During the Month on Scale. suffered willing, good mechanic-Wu- t from a feeling of inferiority or So he cut his rates. At the closing session of the 1 1 th biennial convention of (Continued on Page 7) the United Mine Workers of America, district 22, Thursday, the strikebreaking. They called it the Metal Mine and Smelter and it became Workers union, blue-car- d known as the outfit. Recently the bona fide international union began intensifying its organizing work in the area. It met with some success, and the anti-labforces decided to answer with violence. blue-car- d The organization, headed by a mine operator and former bootlegger, organized a mob armed with and it wasnt long before C. I. O. sympathizers heads were bouncing off the cudgels on account of their utterances or the wearing of association (union) buttons, to quote the description of the events in the company unions own paper. With the exception of the cudgeling of C. I. O. agitators, as above mentioned, and the wrecking of the rat harbors, otherwise mown as international union halls, was no disturbance, there the Salt Lake Typographical union tiations, explained the different blue-car- d conpaper cynically No. 115 at its special meeting features of the scale and related called Sunday afternoon, by almost the entire history of the negotia- tinues. A Charter to Fight Unionism unanimous vote adopted a new tions. . Mr. P e 1 k e y especially The Fascist violence of this emplowage scale for the printers em- stressed the splendid cooperation yer-incited n mob, gohe received from J. F. Rhodes, ployed in the Tribune-Telegrafrom town to town to wreck ing There were only seven president of the local union, and union halls and beat chapel. up union men, j other officers of the votes cast against the adoption. union, and the received wide public attention in The scale as agreed to between members of the scale committee. i:he press, when some of the unionRead Proposals the negotiating committee for the ists finally decided to defend themSecretary-treasurunion and publishers representaJ. M. Melvin, selves and their hall against it. tives was reported to the union who acted as chairman of the union A wave of indignation ran meeting with recommendations for negotiating committee, read the through labor ranks at this lawless its adoption. The report was signed new sections of the scale, and ex- attack on a peaceful union organizThe La Follette by all members of the union scale plained different points of the doc- ing campaign. ument. committee. committee was asked to investigate W. H. Jones, F. E. Morris and he employers part in this anti-abE. J. Pelkey, international representative of the I. T. U., who spent J. B. Cummoek, Jr., members of violence. several days here during the nego- (Continued on page 4) (Continued on Page 6) bil-ge- st SPLITTING WEASEL-WORDE- D the press reported Franklin D. Roosevelts supreme court reform proposal. Scale Committee A scale committee to bargain with the coal mines operators of Utah' and Wyoming was elected. The committee includes: R. O. Stanton, Rock Springs; M. H. Croy, Rock Springs; Thomas Reay, Jr., Reliance; David B. Superior; Ray Maki, Ilanna, and E. E. Ellsworth, Kemmerer, all Wyoming delegates, and the following Utah delegates: Gil-filla- n, or 1. A request that local committees be appointed to accomon pany company committees a mine as inspections periodic on 5) (Continued page Labor On Its Forward March; C. I. 0. Is Active Bingham Miners Union Receives 400 New Members Garfield Provo Steel Smelter Workers Union Is Reorganized Textile Workers Workers Continue Organization Drive Secure Gains Workers an Rubber Making Agreement. Some 300 membership applications were received Monday night from the Garfield smelter workers for reorganization of the Garfield Smelter Workers local union of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, a C. I. O. affiliate. Glen Gillespie, international board member, presided at the organization meeting. Eldred M. of the Utah Bingham this spring. Royle, secretary district, addressed the workers and urged organization. It is expected that the Garfield local will have a 100 per cent enrollment of the smelter workers within the next 30 days. ! er A. M. Peterson, Castle Gate; W. H. Williams Standardville; Joe Dowd, Latuda; Dick Murray, Kenilworth; Charles Simpkins, Consumers; Richard Bishop, Hiawatha, and Alfred Carey, Schofield. As the sessions ended they were marked with new points the committee must negotiate for, which included: Bingham Miners Bingham Miners union of the International Union, of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, initiated 400 new members at a meeting held in Steel Workers of the emMore than one-ha- lf Cast of Pacific States the ployes Iron Pipe plant at Ironton have joined the new local lodge of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America, a C. I. O. affiliate. The officers of the new lodge are: F. L. Anderson, president; Everett Bachman, vice president; Harold Maag, recording secretary; William Griffiths, financial secre- tary; Shirley Poulson, treasurer; Charles Straw, guide; H. B. Bray, guard, and Perry Jepperson, Thursday night. Board has been the organization work in among the tunnel work-dinnminers employed in the outer guard. U. S. mines. The organization work was Outlook is splendid for a thor- - rected by James G. Thimines, oughly organized community in (Continued on Page 2) Bingham Member directing Bingham ers, and Glen Gillespie , er di- - or- - |