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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 28. 1937. tration of disputes, are also indue ed in the contract. FORWARD MARCH The Oneita Knitting Mills a Utica, N. Y., employing over ICO workers, has also signed up wit (Continued from Page 4) the union, pledging a 10 per cen; Lewis Letter of Approval Members of the union delega- wage increase, a minimum rate o tion who conferred with Lewis on pay, time and a half overtime, anc the question of affliation with the recognizing the T. W. 0. C. as sole C. I. 0. were: Michael Quill, presi- collective bargaining agency. dent of the Transport Workers; Austin Hogan, secretary; John Maine Is Unfair and Santo, business manager, WASHINGTON (UNS) John Harry Sacher, counsel. Lewis letter authorizing the Brophy, director of the Committee granting of an international char- for Industrial Organization, issuec a statement condemning the reac ter reads as follows: Your organization which is to tionary officials in Maine responsi be an international union, will ble for the brutal suppresson ol henceforth be designated as the the most elementary rights o;! Transport Workers Union of striking shoe workers who were America. The jurisdiction which using their legal rights to win is being granted to your organiza- union recognition and better living tion by the C. I. 0. will include all conditions. The jailing of shoe union organworkers employed in or about passenger transportation facilities, izers in Maine, the forbidding of excluding steam railroad systems. all strike activities and the con I am certain that under the in- nivance between courts, governor spiration of your affiliation with and state officials to deny the righ the C. I. 0. your efforts will ulti- of labor to organize have shockec mately result in complete union-zatio- n public opinion, Brophy said. of this industry. Calling attention to a resolution passed by Boston civic and labor organization which declared that it Rayon Knit Plants was unsafe and unwise for any NEW YORK (UNS) One of the member or friend of organizec most important firms in the rayon labor to enter the state because knit industry has just signed a of the brutal and violent efforts to contract with the Textile Workers crush workers into a state of feuda Organizing Committee, Sidney servitude, Brophy asked the coopHillman, chairman, has announced. eration of labor groups in making The Beaunit Mills, which em- the situation known to their memploys more than 1700 workers in bers and the public in similar ways three plants at Cahoes and Fort Brophy quoted the Boston resoPlain, N. Y., and Beverly, N. J., lution assaying that while Maine has agreed to recognize the T. W. labor is kept in sweatshop condi O. C. as sole collective bargaining tions by bayonets, organized la agent. Wage increases, vacations bor in this nation cannot patronize with pay, a week and arbi- - the sporting vacation and Indus LABOR ON ITS . 40-ho- ur WELCOME, LABOR Let Us Serve You UNION MADE BEER REFRESHMENTS BAR - X - IIMIM 155 East 2nd South Street BOOTHS FOR LADIES UNION HOUSE YOUR FRIENDS '7 Best Wishes to Labor FIDELITY SECURITIES CORPORATION H. Edward Doyle, President. Ogden C. Chase, Was. 5625 . Telephone Secy.-Trea- s. Organizers and financiers of Rio Tinto Copper Now Mountain City Copper Co. Listed Salt Lake Stock Exchange, San Francisco Curb, New York Curb 420 KEARNS BUILDING . Salt Lake City, Utah Write, Phone or See Us for Information and Recommendations. POLITICAL OUTLOOK (Continued from Page 1) one of his hobbies. He believes labor should be thoroughly unionized. The man in overalls, as well as the white collar worker, should be an active member of the trade movement. Organization for wage earners is absolutely essential for all workers, opines union Mar-thaki- s. It Was Splendid The members of the lower house in congress did a splendid deed when they defeated a reactionary Republican-sponsore- d proposal to turn administration of relief back The proto local communities. posal was defeated by a standing vote of 172 to 70. Your observer has not forgotten those dark and hungry days under the Hoover administration when local communities administered relief. It was administered in a trial resources of the state in any way. Granite Silk Workers PATERSON, N. J. (UNS) The Granite Silk company workers voted overwhelmingly for the Textile Workers Organizing committee as their sole collective bargaining agency in an election held by Relations the National Labor Board. For weeks the workers have been trying to get union recognition, wage increases and better working conditions. Wins In St. Louis ST. LOUIS (UNS) The C. 1. 0. scored a victory over the open shop forces of St. Louis recently when the Century Electric company signed a union agreement writh its striking employes, solidly organized by the United Electrical and Radio Workers of America. The Century strike settlement, breaking up the united front of the National Metal Trades open-sho- p Association, points to an early union victory in the strike of the U. E. & R. W. at the plant of the Emerson Electric company. Abandoned by its allies, the Emerson management has been forced into a corner by the union solidarity of its employes and the evident justice of their demands. Capitulation by the company Is confidently, predicted by union leaders. Avoided a Strike The third big electrical manufacturer in St. Louis, Wagner Electric, is negotiating a union agreement with the U. E. & R. W. Wagner employes had authorized a strike, but with the example of Emerson and Century before it, Wagner decided that it would be a lot cheaper and easier to talk it over. The union is also negotiating a strike settlement with Baldor Electric, smaller electrical manufacturing company. Victories of the electrical union in St. Louis will open the industrial states along the Mississippi to further advances by that union and other C. I. O. forces. A large open-sho- p area in southern Illinois and southward has long based wage and labor policies on the open-sho- p standards of St. Louis, and the cracking of N. M. T. A. opposition there will make itself felt throughout the midwest. Textile Campaign NEW YORK (UNS) One of the rig problems confronting the headquarters of the Textile Workers Organizing committee is rying to keep up with the constant stream of signed union contracts flowing into the office from textile centers all over the country, as he number of workers covered by hese agreements rapidly nears the .00,000 wark. As soon as an agreement is sign-- 1 ed, a local charter is issued to the workers in the plant, if no local exists in their branch of the indus-;r- y in the vicinity. Hundreds of thousands of dues books, records and stamps are on hand to be shipped out to the new locals. New agreements in the past week brought over 9000 workers under T. W. O. C. contracts, Sidney lillman, chairman, announced, making the total about 80,000 so covered. These contracts include some of the biggest firms in various branches of the industry, such as Beaunit Mills, rayon knit cloth makers with plants at Cohoes and rt Plain. N. Y., and Beverly, N. Knit., employing 1700; Oneita ting Mills at Utica, N. Y., with 600 workers; Roxbury Carpet) company of Saxonville, Mass., 600; Joseph Bancroft & Son, cotton of Reading,! goods manufacturer (Continued on page 6) na-;ion- GS3 COOKJOS' way that meant starvation for those in need and near need. In those days our country was on the brink of a revolution, and had Hoover been reelected and his ideas of local relief continued in 1933 God only knows what would have happened to our system of government. We cant forget those dark days. We shall never want to again see relief in the hands of local Amazing Success -- A new and greater labor movement has flashed into action in the organization of the workers in mass industries by the Committee for Industrial Organization. The original purpose of the Committee for Industrial Organization was to organize the unorganized into the American Federation of Labor, but this purpose was defeated by the action of the American Federation of Labor executive council which ousted the Committee for Industrial Organizations unions and left them to sink or swim. The council took away from the Committee for Industrial Organization the benefits of state federations and city central bodies. Thus the Committee for Industrial Organization, shifting for itself, has begun its setting up of Of similar bodies of its own. the of course the final structure Committee for Industrial Organization is still far from complete, but the solid foundation is laid for a movement in which tens of millions of workers in America will ulfor the timately become a part in the laof the time first history bor movement. As it stands now, this new edifice is imposing, and its startling growth is testimony that it will grow more imposing as time goes on. Total membership runs into the millions even now. New Deal Victories The supreme court upholding the federal old age pensions by decision, the federal unemployment insurance by vote, and the state unemployment insurance laws by vote, are victories for the New Deal. decisions Nevertheless the are proof positive that the Presidents court reform plan is necessary, and, no doubt, will become a law in this congress. We must keep in mind that President Roosevelt is urging congress to establish minimum wage and maximum hour standards, and to pass a law to prevent the movemade goods in ment of child-labo- r interstate commerce. Also a law to ban interstate shipmtnts of products of concerns which use labor spies, or strikebreakers, or deny collective bargaining rights. -2 -4 -4 -4 We are for the New Deal legisla- tion and in order to make this legislation safe, there must be change in the personnel of the highest court of the land. BEST WISHES TO LABOR The Pyke Manufacturing Co. Manufacturers of Work Clothes SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Corduroy Pants and Mens and Womens Slacks Best Wishes to Labor Zoom Secunitioes CoirpoirattDOin) FOR OFFICE SPACE Call 522 Union Pacific Building Salt Lake City, Utah al Important Notice The Utah Labor News does not take its orders from walking delegates, whispering campaigners, spleen peddlers nor racketeers. This paper is the only bona fide established labor and social economic weekly publication in Utah. It is the country. pioneer publication of the The Utah Labor News readers are the most intelligent and best paid workers in Utah. 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