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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE 25, 1937. 5 tors of the association are Mr. An derson, president: O. W. Carlson, vice president; Mr. Christensen, secretary-treasureMr. Kirkham, store manager; Lawrence T. Epperson, Alfonzo Finck, Stanley N. Cooperators Sleet chapel, 3C3 East Second South Child, M. I. Thompson, C. N. Lund, The members of Utah Consum-er- s street. and Donald Hogan, members of Several hundred cooperators en- the board of directors. Cooperative Association and their friends enjoyed a real coop- joyed the musical numbers, talks, erators treat Wednesday night, discussions and a fruit feed furCooperative Institute June 23, at the 12th-13t- h ward nished by the coops fruit departLOGAN Thomas E. Howard, ment at SCO South Main street. Washington, D. C., a national farm The Program pionage to which they are subleader, will speak at the cooperaJoseph A. Anderson, president of tive education conference to be jected. One worker, signing himself the association, acted as chairman held here July 7 to 10, according to Tracy Welling. Ford Dog, said that the employes of the meeting. The West Jordan quartet renMr. Welling is executive secrehad absolutely no part in the attack. It was done by men selected dered several song numbers. tary of the Utah farm bureau and by Ford and put on service out of . A splendid article on Coopera a member of the committee planwritten by Dishop John ning the conference. Mr. Howard the plant. We want to organize but are herded like sheep from the Wells, was presented by George A. has been speaking at a series of street-ca- r into the plant, he wrote. Christensen, secretary of the Con- rural meetings in northern Utah We are not Americans, we are sumers Cooperative Association. recently. The audience enjoyed the novelty The summer conference, which Fords dogs, herded about and not numbers is Our Consumers given by allowed any privileges at all." being cosponsored by the coopTots. of Utah and the W. P. A. eratives Cooperative Another declared in his letter Harold Rendelsbach a adult education gave we men working in Fords program, is a that D. A. and numbers. conference solo, for cooperative trumpet training Rouge plant have observed that as leaders who plan to make use of Interesting Talks soon as we get off a street, bus Grant Leonard made a short talk the cooperative educational seror auto, we are hustled into the on Five Reasons Why I Should vice being offered by the W. P. A. plant you are compelled to pass Iatronize Our Cooperative Store. The conference, which features cofellow-worker. smoke or talk to a ive operative educational methods, has. talk.e soon As as you get into the Af Encourage several other leaders of national plant you aro cimpeUed to pass to Patronize the Coopera- - note. Tom Doig of the Credit 10 or 12 service ran who do not Union National association will have any badges to be identified by. one evening on the credit of the I Hyrum Kirkham, speak manager This should ho invostiVatod a on movement. union extensive Howard A. Cow-de- n gave report SlTe. badges BennetCs Tvfn coSr!! I the increase in business and prog-alreof the Consumers Cooperative made by the Consumers Co- association at North Kansas City or ni!011 6 Se worins in operative Association store at 8G0 may also speak. South Main street, Local speakers include E. D. referred to m the Resident Anderson led in the Hawkins of Spanish Fork, Oro Ktter is Harry Bennett, head ofl0pen forUm discussion on coopera-For- d Moore of Payson, O. L. Carter of s personnel department. tive problems. He was asked ques- - Lindon and Ben Cameron of Cedar tions Pertaining to the success of City, who will handle the three-da- y i tot vpw TnvTM v. I the store. Each question was round table on self help cooperaI and cussed tives. George A. Christensen and explained. I FAST IN NEW ENGLAND Dr. Francis Kirkham will handle New Members Several new members joined at the discussion on cooperative insurBy VALERY BURATI this meeting. The slogan for each ance. Cooperative credit will be BOSTON (UNS) The rapidly I member is: Every member ob- - ably discussed by Karl Sv Little of expanding campaign of the Textile tains a new member. With the the Utah Credit Union league. The orkers Organizing Committee I enthusiasm manifested by the problems of poultry cooperators which has already resulted in I members it is expected that the will be discussed by Byron Alder, union contracts for more than I membership of the association and Dr. E. D. Madsen and Clyde C. 20,000 textile workers in New Eng- - the business at the store will be Edmonds. and, will be intensified still moTe, I more than doubled during the sum as the result of a meeting of 100 mer months, Be ready to learn a better way tfew England organizers and direc-- 1 The officers and board of direc-or- s from any man who can tell you. in the Hotel Bradford, Boston. Sidney Hillman, national TW.O.C. YOU SHARE IN THE PROFITS director, and Hyman Blumberg, New England director, outlined the We Welcome You as a Customer or a Member new phases to be introduced into UTAH CONSUMERS COOPERATIVE the drive. A contract of especial signifiASSOCIATION cance recently concluded between the T.W.O.C. and the' Goodyear GROCERIES VEGETABLES FRUITS FRESH MEATS Fabric Corporation in New Bed860 South Main Wasatch 4864 ford, Mass., gives employes equal DELIVER WE PHONE JUST right with the management in determining machine load. Basic rates of pay for the various operations, and the number of units to constitute a fair amount of work were decided in conferBest Wishes To Labor ences between union and manage ment. Already, the new system has re suited in a reduction of the work 66 99 A Family Service Every Home load in practically every operation in the Goodyear mill. It is believed Phone Hyland 562 that this will serve as a model for similar agreements elsewhere. Narrow Fabrics Industry 748 East 4tli South Street H r; -- ss PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Utah Democrals to Hold Roosevelt Day at Lagoon Wednesday, June 30 In honor of the official notification of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt of his second nomination June 30, 1936, the Sagebrush Democratic Club has invited all Utah Democrats to celebrate Roosevelt Day at Lagoon, Wednesday, June 30. C. H. Carlquist, president of the Sagebrush club, said that all Democratic organizations have joined hands in making this day a great event, and more than 10,000 Democrats are expected to participate in the good things that have been provided for their enjoyment at Lagoon in the afternoon and night. 1 gamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach FORWARD MARCH Employes, which had withdrawn from the I.R.T. election in the face of certain defeat, participated (Continued from page 4) in the Third Avenue Railways vote, sole recognition of the T.W.U. and received 362 votes. T. What the comfrom the B.-pany will do in the face of the IOWA A.F.L. REFUSES demand from such a vast portion of its employes, will be known TO OUST C.I.O. UNIONS within a few days. SIOUX CITY, Iowa (UNS) By Some 3000 employes of the Third vote of 349 to 3, the Iowa Federa Avenue Railways System, surface ation of Labor convention rejected transit company serving Manhat- the order of William Green, A. F. tan, Bronx, Queens and Westches of L. president, to expel unions ter Counties in New York, went to affiliated with the Committee for the polls on June 4 to select their Industrial Organization. sole bargaining agency. The elec S. Lewis, retiring president of tion was brought about on demand theJ. state federation, denounced , from the T.W.U., which won 2373 Green a in speech, saying at fiery votes out of 2909 cast. one Judas betrayed Christ point: The A. F. of L. rival, the Amal- Meanwhile, Weldon C. Cail, mam and Benedict Arnold his country, but neither will stand out like Bill ager of the Narrow Fabrics DeGreen if he wrecks the labor move- partment of the T.W.O.C., with UNION MADE ment. headquarters in Providence, R. I., continued arrangements for a conthe of Lewis, a former president with the narrow fabrics ference was Mine in United Workers Iowa, in Providence, July 12. bitumion the managers recently appointed ON TAP The Narrow Fabrics Department nous coal commission by President thus becomes the first branch of Roosevelt. the T.W.O.C. to confer with the BIG SCHOONER industry as a whole. To deal with WORKERS TAKE CRACK the textile industry nationally is AT FORD SPY SYSTEM one of the eventual aims of the LABOR ON ITS 7 Palace Laundry for IBEElft U5 Best Wishes To Our Many Friends Who Labor e T.W.O.C. O from DETROIT (UNS)-rLette- rs In Pawtucket, an agreement was Ford employes have been received signed with the Royal Weaving at the office of the United Auto- Company, while the strike of the mobile Workers expressing resent- 600 employes of the Hope Webbing 906 SO. MAIN ment against the charge that the Company continued strong, with We Are Now Serving Deattack on union organizers recently negotiations for a settlement pro- licious Meals at the gate of the River Rouge cgging. Try One , Josep'h Salerno, Rhode Island plant was instigated by them, and es- the of humiliating complaining t.W.O.C. director, announced that the Lorraine Mills in Pawtucket, will be the next major objective of the C.I.O. there. He said that 16,- . BEST WISHES TO LABOR (Continued on page 6) EKATH'S Compare The Cost or Less Our A Complete Loan Service, Including Single Signature and Auto Finance Plans Months to Repay $300.00 CO. FINANCE PERGONAL Continental Bank Building Room 403 Salt Lake City - Phone Was. 2007 East Center St. Provo Phone 210 UNDER STATE SUPERVISION Room 921 Eccles Bldg. Ogden Phone 1277 t Tractor & Equipment Co. 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