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Show I i I inrun' .r Review ofl Current Events''" n trr. EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL VII; NO. 49. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE UPE8 Slop 1 1, Price: 1937. Cents Per Copy OTTORIAL News and Comment ' 5 By M. I. T. REACTIONARIES AND POLITICAL. OPPONENTS PROPOSE COMPROMISES What Will Happen? What will happen? is a oues tion frequently asked by workers, The reactionary senators and representative in congress farmers, employers and business should President Roosevelt stands on his court reform plan today men, when discussing the two facstop their boondoggling and pass the relief appropriations in the American labor move- tion bill urged by President Roosevelt. as he did the day he proposed it. the A. F. of L., and the C. I. The United States, with her unlimited wealth and natural This talk of compromises comes mainly from the paid rep- ment, . still has the unemployed problem to solve, and it is resentatives of the big business leagues stationed in the nations Sidney Hillman, president of the resources, capital to provide propaganda for the daily press throughout Amalgamated Clothing Workers, absolutely necessary that the needy be cared for. The $1,500,-000,00- 0 answered the question as follows: the country. urged by the President is not any too much to take care Industrial The for Committee of the needs. essential Regardless of the propaganda in the newspapers, and Organization has made an imporIn connection with the relief appropriation bill it is not necstatements by reactionary opponents of the plan, Republicans tant contribution toward a peaceful and Democrats alike, the President's proposition will be voted relationship between industry and essary to review the artificial post-wa- r prosperity of this country laissez-fair- e under the before form administrations the in session this of Harding and Coolidge. upon choosing closes,' management and our guess is that it will become sands of farmers wondering wheth- of industrial organization. The We need not review, although we cannot forget, the industrial, the law of the land. er next years prices will meet committee has burned down the old financial, and social collapse of the nation under the vacillating Should Act Now method of labor organization by their mortgage interest now. This plan would have passed the "Here are thousands upon thou- crafts, not merely because it is in- administration of Herbert Hoover. With the dawn of the administration of Franklin D. Roosesenate weeks ago if it hadnt been sands of men and women laboring effective as far as labor is confor the manipulators holding th for long hours in factories for in- cerned, but because it permits of velt bold and radical steps were taken to salvage from the debill back in the judiciary commit- adequate pay now. no responsibility in' the relation- bris the remains of an abused and mismanaged capitalistic systee. Here are thousands upon thou- ship between labor and manage- tem. When local and state governments were unable to assume ' We believe with President Roose- sands of children, who should be at ment. the of clothing, feeding, and giving shelter to millions responsibility velt that there is an acute need school, working in mines and mills No employer can enter into 17 of define American who were the victims of a man-mad- e citizens for a change in the personnel of now. agreements with 17 organizations, rethe national undertook the pression, government very properly the supreme court, and therefore, Here are strikes more far reach- an be assured that there will not of revolution a of command by sponsibility preventing mighty taking costThe which NOW. should have act be jurisdictional strikes congress ing than we have ever known, no justification, from any point of dangerous situation. The administration recognized its responsibilipeople are restless. We may con- ing millions of 'dollars now. ty to see that no one starved in a land of plenty. Various agencies of tinue toave symptoms of existing Here are spring floods threaten- view, and which make it impossible the government were created to solve the problem of unemployment unrest until our social and econom- ing to roll again down our river to have responsible leadership and and relief. Billions of dollars have been spent to date seeking a soluic problems are solved. contractual relationship between valleys now. ' of the problem. tion bowl President Roosevelt declared on and Here is the dust beginning industry management. expenditures are needed to support the unemployed until March 4: to blow again now. It is only when one labor or- such Further time d as industry is able to absorb all persons who are d of a nation Here is Because our Constitution pro- ganization is dealing for all the oron (Continued 8) dispage and and vides for three separate and ganized employes in the plant now. tinct branches of government, ac-- ( in the industry, that there can be Here are thousands upon thou Continued on page 2) a responsible organization administering the terms of the contract. No one in industry can honestly say that if they have to deal with labor they would rather deal with the old craft form of labor organization. ; authorita- Obergfell Opposes Special Levy At A. F. L. Meet To Fight InHillman Mr. speaks and After receiving, reading and digesting the statements . tively. Ilis organization, for ex dustrial Groups Condemns Craft Union Dismemberers messages coming from President William Creen, the A.-F- , of L ample, - has hid contracts' - with Who Try To Bfeak Up A. F. L. Unions Cincinnati Gathexecutive council, and the Federation representatives in the Hart, Schaffner and Marx for ering Divided Ini Opinion Montana Workers Form State field, there is little hope for peace which some of the leaders o (Continued on page 8) Industrial Council Organization of Unorganized Workthe A. F. of L. claim they desire ers Continue On All Fronts. It appears very much as though the high executives in the Political Outlook A. F. of L. have reached the stage where they think they are The American Newspaper Guild, meeting in annual conIn the masters of the free American citizens instead of the hirec able-bodie- one-thir- ed Labor on Its Forward March; C. I. O. Is Active e of labor representatives of the great President Green has made several statements of his great desire for peace, but in every instance there has been the proviso rank-and-fil- attached that the will of the executive council of the A. F. of L. must be complied with before there can be any forgiveness for the transgression of the sacred law. Free Men and Women The olive branch tendered has always had the appearance of having been cut from a thorn bush. American workers who voluntarily join the ranks of union labor are not slaves. They are free men and women. When the labor leaders, no matter how high or what group, try to proclaim themselves as the rulers they are simply being overpowered by their own egotism and will ere long find their efforts as futile as is those of the dog baying at the moon. When listening to the talks of leaders in some of these or movement reading the labor their written messages regarding the activity of the C. I. 0. and its destructive force, one is apt to be carried away with the false impression that the thing complained NOBODY KNOWS By KATE RICHARDS OHARE dol-rum- Compiled From Reports of Observers City Election There will be a city election in the Utah cities this year to elect city commissioners and auditor. The nominating primaries will take place in September, and those who qualify will then face a battery of ballots in the November election. In Salt Lake City the prospective candidates are beginning to feel the public pulse and, no doubt, the usual large number of candidates will be seeking nominations for the two commissioner posts and one city auditor to be elected this year. There is one candidate for city commissioner who has formally announced his candidacy for the nomination thus far. He is Charles M. Ramey from the Second municipal ward, and those who are in the know say that he will make a strong bid for the place on the ticket. He is being backed by a number of organizations, clubs and individuals. Mr. Ramey served in the last session of the legislature and made a good record. Your observer, listening to the comments in the highways and byways, has a reason to believe that Ramey will e one of the best bets in the primaries to qualify. J. Waldo Parry from the Fifth ward has announced himself as a candidate for the nomination for city auditor. Mr. Parry is well cnown to the voters of Salt Lake Uity. During the last four years le has served as docket clerk in ;he house of representatives of the state legislature. He will have a strong backing for the post and is yeing considered as a leading non-partis- so-call- ed WASHINGTON -- - Congress s, eems to be coming out of the and is showing some signs f life. The supreme court issue as passed the bellowing stage rhere leaders on both sides of the uestion pawed the earth, kicked p the dust, and filled the air with sound and fury. The men who make the wheels go round on lapitol Hill have settled down to horse tie serious business of rading. Probably the result will e a compromise that will leave the eally vital issue the power to ullify acts of congress which the upTirne court has usurped still nresolved. Some good has been achieved, Utah and U. S. an administration will little a power; the nine old gain men will be just a little less despotic and reactionary in their decisions, and social legislation will be in slightly less danger of judicial emasculation. The real, worthwhile results of the - npisy, and are sometimes noisome, poW-wothat the masses are now awake to the fact that the supreme court is human, not Divine; that an aroused and articulate public opinion can put the fear of God into the heart of even a supreme court jusOccupational Diseases tice; that the split in the DemoCompensation for occupational cratic party has been made wider diseases has been one of the most and more impossible to heal, and prominent subjects before state that members of. congress have egislatures this year. Bills on (Continued on Page 7) (Gmtinued on page 4) however, the w vention at St. Louis this week, voted to withdraw from the A. F. of L. and affiliate with the Committee for Industrial Organi- zation. The vote of the delegates was almost unanimous. The delegates voted to open membership in the Guild to business office, circulation and advertising department, and other unorganized newspaper workers. The Wood and Timber Workers union meeting in convention at Seattle voted to submit a referendum vote to the membership on the matter of affiliation with the C. I. O. The convention represented 125,000 workers. The organization is now a part of the Brotherhood of Carpenters, affiliated with the A. F. of L. The Maritime Federation of the Pacific, meeting in convention at Portland this week is considering affiliation with the C. I. o. Delegates from local unions, affiliated with the C. I. O. in Montana, met at East Helena Monday to form the Montana State Industrial Union Council, to be chartered by the C. I. O. The only voice heard in opposition to the recommendation of the American Federation of Labor leaders, meeting in Cincinnati to devise mans of fighting the C. I. O., were those of General Secretary Treasurer Joseph Obergfell of the Brewery Workers, and Charles P. Howard, president of the International Typographical Union and secretary of the C. I. O. Obergfell objected to the motion that an assessment be levied of one cent per member on all affiliated unions beginning June, 1937, subject to ratification at the next convention of the Federation. He contended that a mandatory assessment was the equivalent of an increase in the per capita tax, which can be adopted only by a convention in accordance with the constid vote of the 7ng tution, by a against therm He an amendoffered delegates. Obergfell pointed to the fact ment that the assessment be made that the A. F. of.L. established a -- two-thir- voluntary, and pointed to the fact that many of the representatives of national and international unions had no .authority to pledge their organization to the payment of a mandatory assessment. Attack Craft Position Despite the objectives of Obergfell and Howard, the mandatory assessment recommended by the executive council was approved. Obergfell had himself recorded as opposing the assessment. During the course of debates. Obergfell attacked as hypocritical the position of the craft union leaders who on the floor of the meeting complained about the raids the C. I. O. unions were stag- - precedent in raiding membership. When the federation attempted to dismember the Brewery Workers into craft unions they established a precedent of raiding membership, and the action of the C. I. O. of raiding membership of unions with . the federation affiliated could not be condemned, as the raid made bv the A. F. of L. on one of its oldest affiliated unions. . Divided Opinion The conference found itself divided on the policy to take toward unions affiliated with the Commit- tee for Industrial Organization. President Green, in his impassioned opening speech, attacked (Continued on Page 2) , |