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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. JUNE 25, 1937. LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH Living Wage Not Enough (Continued from page 3) young Transport Workers Union, culminating in a 95 per cent vote for the T.W.U. in an employe election on May 15 and the sign- - By DR. CHARLES STELZLB Executive Director, Good Neighbor League a bar- - .he When .he worker!, cornpelled to .trugEle for eat necessities when he receives merely a living wage there is little opportunity for the growth of the finer instincts which lead to the creation of a fuller life. His struggle for prohibits the develop- - tract with Thomas E. Murray, Jr., Thi. i, .aid i.h full apprccia.ionof.he men. of 1 ,r strength of character which is developed even ln th signatories. Actually drafting of filth soil and of the nurtured in be culture But how can contract, which calls for a poverty. eral 10 per cent wage increase, a basic Many a shop girl, after a hard days work, is compelled to paid vacations, spend her evenings in further monotonous toil in the home, be- - heee0unTrygenerally work 60 or cause of the poverty of her parents or because of her own lim- - more hours in a seven-da- y week) ited means. To such there can be little or no development of and the closed shop, is credited to those qualities which make for the highest type of womanhood. Ilarry Sacher, T.W.U. counsel The har.hne.. of their daily toil cru.he. out many of the .ofter were and gentler qualities. Austin Hogan, general secretary; The tragedy of such an existence lies in the fact that a Gustave Faber, vice president and woman is deprived of the greatest happiness of a normal John Santo, business manager of womans life, and at the same time she is unable to enter into the T.W.U., and Allen Ilaywood, dirMtor for New Cm her daily occupation with enthusiasm and vigor. The woman in her home, crowded in by four walls of her Thg contract was ratified by kitchen; the workingman, whose daily path is from his home to unanimous vote of 11,000 LILT, the shop and from the shop to his home, cannot fail to show the employes at meetings held on June clause The recreations which must 2 and 3. The closed shop influence of this restriction. 3 u op come to them, especially in the case of the men, appeal merely fCJTnnny inff to the physical side of their nature. The limitations of poverty, then, are the terrible pressure due to a Iqw standard of wages, and hence a low standard of living, and the lack of the power to appreciate the best things incompetent, the dishonest, and the in life, because the higher instincts have been systematically saboteurs. To get the bitter bread I or 10 f re ground out through long years of deadening toil. ... he made the mistake that is ployed The demand of the worker for a living wage is not old ag civilization and as He has a right to demand a cultural wage a wage mon a3 human life, that will lift him out of the realm of the beasts of the field a I He tried to buy peace, security, an.(I freedom to do his work by subwage that will give him not merely a LIVING but a LIFE. to black amounted what to mitting It simply mail by politicians. g-rt-j- gP self-prcservatti- on ..If-cul.u- r.. L gen-wan- 48-ho- ur t? ately reinstate victimized union members or arrange for an immediate hearing so they may properly appeal their dismissal or loss of seniority rights. In the interest of maintaining harmony on your transit lines we urge a prompt reply. 6,000 Attend Meeting . On the night of January 25 telegram: Within the past fortnight more T.W.U. members employed in the T.s largest powerhouse in than a dozen complaints have been B.-sit-i- n office this that filed with your Brooklyn staged an to close came renewed has and its shutting campaign protest company of intimidation and firings of off the subway power, to force the union members. Such hostile acts company to reinstate two engineers can mean only that you seek to( who had been fired for union provoke a recurrence of the re- activity. taliatory move you compelled this B.-- On June 3, more than COOO T. workers jammed Arcadia union to take against your comsome 25 or on last Hall, largest indoor auditorium in January pany similar action. Brooklyn, and voted to demand We request that you immedi- (Continued on page 5) ally salted away for safe keeping, the Transport Workers Union in New York put on full steam in its campaign to organize the rest of the citys 40,000 transit workers. To William S. Menden, president T. Corporation, anof the B.-anti-unio- n notorious concern, other the T. W. U. sent the following! I all-nig- ht M. ; "guStiatoni I corn-enoug- h. 1 be done. No man who can be bought ever stays bought. Because Hopkins bought men when he was strong, he is now weak. No in need; I am sure that thinking person can defend what (Continued from page 1) fare as congress asserting its many a voting mother will ask him has been done in Federal relief ad-- if he thinks that they can fill the ministration. The very best Jthat right to control public spending. There is nothing new about pork empty bellies of their hungry can be said is that desperate cant clear-tragical- ly condi-childr- en Capitol Ilill has always with cement and steel. grabbing. tions made it impossible to ques-Harfed on it, and B. Coffee of Nebraska is tion methods, not so naive that I dont know that there has one of the most thoroughly reac- what happened in Calif i been plenty of greasing in this ad tionary men in the house, and if ornia. Since coming to Washing-hal- f ministration. The difference is of what I have heard about ton i have sent out thousands of that instead of the individual con- his share-cropptenants is true, questionnaires on the relief set-ugressmen dishing out the pork, a landlords in eastern Arkansas have jhe replies prove that what lot of it seems to have been in Haron him. I am naturally I pened in California happened in y ry Hopkins department. lie, ofher state. I saw the vicious, keeping tab on our California con-- 1 to political tradition, has gressmen, and I havent found any- - every old Southern hoary, tried desperately, if not very courfrom Tinkham of Massachu- - ard Oil - Republican - Democratic to see that the livers, setts to Woodrum of Virginia, more I machine given complete control of ageously, lights, chitterlings, and bacon consistently reactionary t h a n au Federal relief administration rinds went to the unemployed even Kramer and Costello of California. I because Harry Hopkins lacked the if the economic royalists die I could go on through the list of ll to buck the puts continue to get the hams and pork the states and find that each Dockweiler ring. I saw our marv-mu- st chops. bow its head in shame and I elous self-hel- p cooperatives wreck-confes- s, A Bitter Editorial Mea culpa!! All of the ed by a sappy college boy sent out The Philadelphia Record of May states, so far as I know, have men I from New York for that purpose, 28 in a bitter editorial is scathing in elected on the New saw a Federal Transient camp congress, j in its denunciation of the Demo- Deal platform, who have repudiat- - that was a miracle of efficiency crats from the old, solid, south ed it and the wreckers. The ancj rehabilitation smashed, the joined who led the pork-barrsniping. voters in their districts should ablest agriculturist human engin It reminded them of the states, know what to do in the next elect eer it has ever been my privilege which, on a plea of poverty, had ion. to know discharged and his work grabbed 100 per cent relief funds Victims of Sincerity destroyed because he refused to from Washington but refused to The only fireworks in the whole violate the California law by plant provide any state funds for relief, sorbid business was the sudden ex- - in?f jn ieased land, diseased seed I and of the prosperity that had plocion that slapped down Harry potatoes purchased by a politically come to southern business inter Hopkins on a Thursday and did a controlled corrupt procurement ests from Federal spending, and if resentful, about-fac- e I saw a splendid group partment. closed with: Now they turn their on the next Tuesday. It is inter- - 0f men with a high unemployed poison on an Administration which esting that of all the men who I record of efficiency, loyalty, and has chosen to give the underpriv- have come and gone during the kicked out of to work willingness ileged as well as the overprivileg- hectic days of the New Deal only the home they had created for ed a better break. two who have held the spot-ligthemselves by their own labor in All of which is true, but it is remain i and Aub-- that Transient Hopkins Harry camp, and driven not the whole truth. The pork-barr- rey Williams. Both are cordially I like wild across the state beasts raid was led by southern lated, and quite as cordially loved, line Los the by Angeles police. I Democrats, and every earmarking The old grey wolves hate them be- the beginnings of a beautiful, amendment aimed to grab relief cause they are indomitably, incor- - Say and probably funds for pork-barrand everlastingly for the school dissipated and the wild purposes was offered by a Democrat who repre- ruptibly. underprivileged. boys of the depression thrown out sents a poverty-stricke- n district There are millions of us who onto the highways to starve or live where cutting relief means despair, ove them for what they tried to crime. desolation, and death follow relief do, b,ut resent the way they did it. by You Cant Buy Loyalty These old Bourbon We know that they are the victims curtailing. You ask: Who dares be respon- Democrats of the pork-barrbloc of their profound sincerity. They sible for such terrible social welcomed with open arms the reac- are so obsessed and bedevilled with I answer: The same tionary New England Republicans. he necessity of feeding the hungry wrongs? Democratic 'leaders who are the They temporarily buried their tra- and salvaging human wreckage pork-barrbloc. Oh, yes, I know ditional hr t red for Damyankees that stumbled into the old, old I that Harry Hopkins issued the they and worked with them cheek by the delusion that the end ders and Aubrey Williams carried jowl to cut relief and harass Presi- justifies the means. The end does I them out, but back of them was dent Roosevelt. not justify the means because the Jim Farley, and back of him the Turn-CaaMany end is the fruit of the means, and pork-barrbloc,, and, back of ev-- if But I dont think that it was the means are vicious the fruit I erything, the necessity of winning only Bourbon Democrats from the will be as dust and ashes. the 1936 election. From the day deep south who lined up with New Tried To Buy Peace the first Federal relief bill was England Republicans so desperat-l- y Harassed by the grim necessl- - passed and all down the line, Fed-tie- s to swing congress from New of his job, and being only a eral relief has bent a subservient Deal policies to the standards of the machinery of govern- - knee to corrupt politicians. Now in cog Hoover and Landon. Greed and re- ment, traded and the same politicians have turned on Harry action know no state, creed, or race trafficked and Hopkins truckled to all that relief like a pack of wolves, and lines. It was Cartwright of Okla- is most vicious in politics. To get would like to emasculate it. homa who fathered the rankest what he needed for the poor he I am glad that this thing hap-n?a- a' pork-barrof all, roads. I know e terrib le bargains with the I pened. I am hoping that Hopkins the people of Oklahoma and I susTo j?et lief for the starving, and Williams and Farley and Roos-h- e pect that he will have some trouble bowed to the powers-that-b- e and velt have learned that loyalty can-l- et explaining why he did his best to load his executive I not be bought, and that principles cut relief when his people are so and politicians administrative staffs with the f (Continued on page 8) ry Ian -- er 243g p. hap-nothi- ng con-trar- Pacific-Stand-on- e, Johnson-McAdoo-a- I el ete After you have read this copy of the Utah labor Flews If you are honest and unbiased you will admit that it is the only real labor and social economic publication in the states. inter-mounta- in If you are not a regular subscriber, you should become one NOW1 Regular price $1.50 per year I ht el self-supportin- g, el el el Each issue contains startling facts suppressed by other papers. 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