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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT fishness versus the C. I. 0. leaders willingness to organize all unorganized men and women workers of America. And thats how matters stand toTomorrow day in labor circles. may bring about a different status and, perhaps, a united front! OUR PROBLEMS SEEING LAKE C1TV, UTAH. MAY 2 By CHARLES STELZLE Executive Director, Good Neighbor League 1 . 1937. Art Aims In Utah Outlined At Annual Dinner Sunday been accomplished toward bringing music to everyone than ever before in the history of the United The biggest man on any job is The speaker called attenStates. musical to the one who has ideas. In facing tion projects in other financed states ty government, and our problems and this applies to now that we know concluded that personal matters as well as to na the value of this work in the Unitthere are four tional affairs ed States, we will not let it die. do them: with we must that Kirke M. Decker, representing things movement, the Little Theater First, we must see them; second, we must study them; third, we on the Theater of the Fuspoke must state them, and fourth, we He envisioned a great fedture. must solve them. theater eral movement, embracing The trouble with most of us is the educational, the recreational that we reverse this process. This and the artistic sides of the stage. is what is happening in industry, Arts and Crafts in politics, in international affairs, Faul Smith, artist, said thouWe get together and immediately sands of artists, who at the beginwe determine that something must ning of the depression thought be done. And because we havent many who may that life in America held for them 0utside of the large body shops, architect, "one a writer, one'a musi- - no worth while place, now have any ideas about the matter under fWh l iPbiTinH?JrnStrfaVt t I consideration we finish up by passthe bulk of the automotive tool and cian, one a sculptor, one a crafts- - taken new hope. blindor die hSm' work is done in sma11 ib shops. man, one to represent the drama, Mrs. A. L. Beeley, honorary diing a set of resolutions nnl u tnrn The tc)o1 and die season prepara- - one to represent the dance, and five rector of arts and crafts work for ly setting up a program and then of wnat these consist f La ioqq mAiaia ia nnw u. we go home feeling that the job to tm? professional men or the National Youth Administration At any rate, the same principle getting into full swing as 'the 19371 women interested has been finished. But it hasnt either in art, lit at the University of Utah, presentapplies to personal relationships even been begun. season begins to wane, erature or music, ed Governor Blood with a silver production lau A w Contmues Drive It is interesting that when some- in the shop, in the home, m the Music Drama and sandwich plate. bor hall, or wherever else men and The beginning of the intensive body does present a real idea it the Mrs. Ruby S. Garrett, state diof director Beales, Reginald The women may be associated in the u A W. drive in the tool and die Utah State acts like an electric spark. Sinfonietta, said the rector of womens and professional e crowd comes to life, and every- afrri!rs. coincided the with beginmusic Federal projects have projects in the WPA, on behalf of The first and probably the most industry season this year. thing clears up very quickly. to more than njng seventy mil- - the Federal Art Project, presented played The man that stands out, therethe will mean These PaR x?Ve lion American people, More has to the Governor for the state a silk agreements and receptive mind. ideas the ideas who has one the is and tool of enrollment cent state flag, a large d fore, per not evolve from a brain crowded jqq makers man who can see the problem. in the United Automo- the governors rejjg for bronze tray Organization, Confusion exists today in our with prejudice. bile Workers of America, which and a bronze waste-papwho will send ception room, the the unchallengeable organization hand made by all basket, are the United Automo- d?.lefatea automobile of the in workers all and arts crafts WPA projects. PIE-CAR- D CRAFTISTS the International UnBlood responded to the Governor industry, Anderson said. Wark aad TRY TO MAKE TROUBLE! it has demonstrated that it is lon He said he Gar- - presentation speeches. ersLadies International which can the only organization was inwas the government glad ment Workers, and the American establish conditions that tool , .. terested in advancing this splendid Cn b easi,7 Atvted; die makers have long tried to Radio Telegraphist Association. (Continued from Page 1) work, and that he would be glad to ample, all the automobile workers Another disadvantage the achieve. The Ut A. W. win now g0 cooperate to make Utah among the tblS Supports Movie Strike are enlisted in one union, all the rv iad,us full steam ahead in its organiza-do- e front-ran- k states in thi3 worth not deslre.to deal with a tinal drive in the tool and die HOLLYWOOD (UNS) Studio while movement to bring the finer steel workers in another, and so on motion picture workers on strike irrespective of what their jobs dozen or more unions and be in slums ' of life within reach of all continuous for recognition of their union and things citizens. collective were in these industries. our the rights of collective bargaining, of Now every time representatives bargaining negotiations. It desires I ft FWfriral ' Art Exhibit to deal with an one of the C. I. 0. start organizing only bargaining Union Wins Pact received a telegram expressing success the opening of the was all and for wishes of for craftists and L. its employes, agency Sunday sympathy industry, the A. F. of BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (UNS) have Utah scene settled the annual director from in it of 35th one art exhibit at the stroke on Jbn the Brophy, for immediately appear wPnt un 8 tn in rents an Organt-nf.r!fbfiexhibit of The state Committee Industrial the for and attempt to influence some o period of one, two or three yearn, capitol. C. I 0 came to with and sculpduralon tbe agree- a settlement of the 24-dpaintings, photographs, the workers to join the craf strike of zaV?,n1 for. labor people who are Inter- ture is open to the public daily unions. In many instances, the G Local No. 210, United Electrical Favors G I. O. I. 0. and A. F. of L. are farther and Radio Worker of America, at ested in seeing better conditions from 2 to 5 p. m., until May 23. Then, the workers more them are and op again, bitterly apart the Bridgeport plant of the Casco obtained for workers in the motion The exhibition hours 2Saturday picture industry should back the and Sunday will be from to 9:30 posed to each other, than are the selves are sick and tired of the A. Products Corp. F. L. MatUnion work- - p. m. of craft union strikers and the companies. jurisdictional The agreement wTas the first C. strike, Brophy said. what their affilia- ters occasionally reach a comic disputes and do not desire to af I. 0. contract ever signed in this .rs n matt Sunday, from 3:30 to 5 p. m., an to should recen music program will be informal ob the strikers for tion, that help example, organization SJrS? opera stage open-sho- p city, the tain Utah State Sinfonietta, their by demands, cases are on record such as where given telegram reputation of bitter juris- addition to the general wage read. Music Federal C. I. 0. men picketed a shop as beown Project of the WPA. its to be amng increase, piece rates are dl?nfavarare anc called of which The All citizens strike was Utah are cordialto by organized labor, ing unfair . upward so that piece work on The company union is definitely justed to visit invited the exhibit. was in turn picketed by an A. F. 5) (Continued Page ly will pay at least 10 cents an hour of L. man with a banner declaring out, and wull entirely disappear be- - more than the hourly base rate on the same shop fair! Then there is fore long. Workers just dont like the job. The agreement calls for g came la be Pack-- 1 a the incident of the week, overtime pay, va- blue-carmemard Motor union d company company election, held cations, and other union benefits, bers in the Galena, Kansas, district, by the Labor Relations Board, the same town, General Elec-whe- n 'copy workers had their choice be- - trie workers organized in the U. chartered by A. F. of L. to deter organization activities of the Inter- tween a company union and a C. e. & R. W. are preparing for a national Union of Mine, Mill and 1. O. union. The C. I. O. came out National Labor Relations Board Smelter Workers, a G I. 0. affili- on top, by a four to one majority, election that will sweep the last mter-umo- n ate. warfare will trace of company unionism from involve only two groups C. I. 0. the plant. G I. 0. Leads The election over, So far, the C. I. 0. has the best areSlrdinS Bridgeport will join the list of G. of the battle in many fronts. The ..or the fray, both realize that they e. plants throughout the country C. I. 0. in a little over a year has are m for real action. Both are where U. E. & R. W. is the sole If you are honest and unbiased you will admit that it is conducting most intensive member grown in fact, its dues-payidrives AnSfflon in othS Ship out numbers that of years. membership the only real labor and social economic publication in Towns Won . Wnat influence a labor union the old A. F. of L. The il in Conn, a short Stamford, the states. war will have on labor s de- - tance away, the U. E. &. R. W. is old federation has lost much of its oM prestige. The hopes of the mands on management remains to doing a Job that hadl dwindling A. F. of L. are pinned on )e seen. could be the never If you are not a regular subscriber, you should become done, predicted Should Modernize a change in the National Labor Reof Yale & Towne, a organizing one NOW! There is a growing feeling huge plant in a lations Act (Wagner Act) which it anti- fanatically the rank and file of the A. union town. among hopes congress will endorse. As now constituted, this Act of L. that the old federation In Trenton, N. J., the bailiwick Regular price $1.50 per year forces elections among workers should be modernized to meet the of labor-baitin- g Gov. Harold Hoffwhen trouble appears in an indus- needs of the day; that it should man, members of U. E. & R. W. try. These elections are secret, )atch up differences it has exist local 409 won a closed shop conEach issue contains startling facts suppressed by other are impartially conducted, and ng toward the illegally suspended tract with wage boosts, after a papers. Political corruption, advertised fakes which workers vote for whatever union ntemational unions, and bring all four-hoin an electrical! abor under one banner. they want. Union getting a majorpoison and plunder the consumers, how the public is plant. The barrier in the way of the manufacturing In Pittsburgh, ity vote is the legal representative Westinghouse humbugged by propaganda; special articles on the of all workers, and other unions wishes of the rank and file is the workers from scattered in plants are out. A. F. of L. wants an form of election of many states and Canada were in growing cooperative movement; exclusive stories on the amendment to the Act which would officers in the A. F. of L. It is in conference recently with the chairprogress of the Committee for Industrial Organization; permit a craft union to represent absolute control of the highly-pai- d man of the board, and came out News and Comment; Review of Current Events; Politiits members in an industry, irre- big guns of the international with a promise of union recognispective of what union speaks for unions. The A. F. of L. cannot be tion as fast as the plants are or- cal Outlook; Labor On Its Forward March; Editorials other workers in the same indus- reformed until the big guns see the ganized. these are some of the exclusive features appearing in try. It may be that such an amend- error of their ways. This fll be The Drive Goes On ment is necessary to the very life hard for them to do so long as it The Philco plants in Philathe next 1 3 issues. of antiquated A. F. of L. in an means for them from a $12,000 to delphia great were closed tight last week It is a when 8,500 members of three U. industry, craft workers, who are $25,000 a year . leaders sel- - E. & R. W. locals poured into the usually skilled men, are in a mi- - matter of A. F. for 13 street to end company stalling on a new wage agreement. The Emerson Electric Co., the Open to new readers only. Thousands of Members are joining the Century Electric Co., and the Bal-dElectric Co., all in St. Louis, were still shut tight last week as Send 25 cents today for the next 13 issues of the most the U. E. & R. W. continued with C. I. UNIONS instructive and worth-whil- e unabated force its war on the Nareading in Utah. tional Metal Trades Association In Utah unfair tactics. The objectives of the Utah State Institute of Fine Arts, a branch of the state government, were elab plans and in our legislation to re- - LABOR ON ITS orated upon by speakers at the sec SVhTfArt! annal dinnr 0f the Institute FORWARD MARCH I 0nd ViS? ?rnh TfcL' 0iSnIslSi held at the State Capitol cafe Sun- job of , day evening is to discover the causes (Continued from page 3) Martin secretary of the In- m AiitbMAhaw Wn mad clear reniority rights after 30. days - stitute, acted 'as chairman, in the PIoyment with Preferentlal senior- absence from the city of Stanley M iSI Ti!fn Iba N. Child, president. Mr. Martin ity for shop committee men. limited to one reviewed S. B. 52 by Mrs. Lund, are Tiflf! Apprentices Si m to b n for every 20 men, with a guaran- - which passed the legislature and tee o 48 weeks work a year and was approved by Governor Henry 1,m contract. Starting rate jj. Blood. This statute created the ifAH tVtL ciJno? w1L13mpn rhJ a four-yeshall be 45 cents an Utah Institute of Fine Arts and apprentices They bour to great men or our times. automatically increased provides for its management by a lem-sce- rs rjT t ar I I I I 1 I hand-painte- israI er 1 r C whhe ; ay 1 ; strike-breakin- 40-ho- ur of the After you have read this Utah labor Flews I ng half-centu- ry dis-civ- inter-mounta- in old-time- rs ur sit-do- pie-car- d. of-L- Special offer weeks, 25c or 0. C. I. The Utah Labor News is the only publication here featuring official C. I. 0. news. 0. Unions Form So. California Group LOS ANGELES (UNS) Dele-gate- s from 22 G I. O. unions not seated in the Los Angeles Central Labor Council have set up a South-- 1 California Committee for Indus- - Utah Labor News 24 South 4th East St., Salt Lake City. v |