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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, JULY 9, .1937. Hafior J&toS Utafj Established A MEMBER 1929 This paper receives Service, a C. 1. Labor on Its Forward News 0. affiliate. Union METAL MINERS IN WEST WIN UNION VICTORIES DENVER, s Subscription s Advertising rates by request. SUO per annum Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. Publisher Office Manager M. I. THOMPSON L M. THOMPSON DOWN TO EARTH By KATE RICHARDS O HARE (Continued from page 1) tal economic defects. The President probably feels that it is better to have the measures which he can support originate in the traditional way in congress, than to inflict them on a group of legislators very inijealous of its prerogative of tiating legislation. Know Psychology The sponsors of the Industrial Expansion Act demonstrated that they too. know their psychology. They did not introduce a totally new and unfamiliar proposal, but sought merely to extend the principles and methods of procedure that have already become familiar through the operations of the New Deal. They recognize the fact that the seeming willingness of the American people to abandon the pioneer philosophy of rugged individualism was an expression of a fear psychosis created by depression hys- teria. They know that since the dawn of human life mankind has been shaped and conditioned by the capable fear of scarcity and that a system that grew up in an age of natural scarcity can no longer efficiently function in a world of power driven rqass production where superabundance of goods and services can be produced in every field of human need. They also know that human beings do not change overnight; and that the less thoughtful people are not ready to actually abandon the system of scarcity under which they grew up. Have Responsibilities The congressmen who framed the Industrial Expansion Act are less caustic than I am, in comparing the promises of the New Deal with its performances. Because they have responsibilities which they find most difficult to discharge, they are more ant and understanding. They can see that the President did not dare to make too drastic changes, and that possibly he hoped to make the scarcity system hobble along just a little longer while the necessary processes of mass education wrere going on. Or, it might be that he knows that the education of experience Is most convincing, and he let people prove for themselves the futility and stupidity of artificial scarcity in a world of possible plenty. But, whatever the reason, the whole drive of the New Deal has been consistently towards creating scarcity. Yet, while Federal departments scramble for scarcity, Roosevelt has hammered relentlessd of our ly on the fact that ill is ill fed, housed, and population ill clad, and that the Federal government is directly and inescapably one-thir- Colo. (UNS)- -A holiday called by two local unions whose members are employed by the Federal Mining and Smelting Co., in the Coeur dAlene District of Idaho has ended with a settlement entirely satisfactory to the workers, the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers has announced. The union won complete recognition, the abolition of a vicious employment system, and other dethree-week- matter March 28, 1930, at the post office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. second-clas- March: C. I. 0. Is Active OF THE 04 Entered as responsible for their welfare. AAA and NRA In agriculture the AAA paid the farmers half a billion dollars to take more than fifty million acres of land out of cultivation. This brought food production down to what the people really needed to be properly fed. The net incomes d of the farmof the upper ers were somewhat increased, but d is being rapidly the lower one-thir- one-thir- liquidated, relentlessly Spinning Co., and Signal Knitting Mills have been filed with the labor board. crushet down into tenantry, share cropping, and wage labor, an existence so far below the subsistence level, saps the health of the rural, and urban, poor. The NRA set up trade agreements for industry which restricted output; then scarcity prevailed and living costs outran incomes in the lower brackets, but corporation profits soared and the stock market boomed. Now the New Deal is sponsoring a bill to cut down the number of hours per week a wage worker may work. On the theory, it seems, that if business and agriculture are to profit by artificial scarcity, .then the government is duty bound to help those who have only labor power to sell to make it a scarce article. I cant decide whether the President is trying to revive a dying capitalism by giving it shots of artificial scarcity, or trying to prove the whole capitalistic theory ridiculous by giving the country an overdose of its doctrines. Sowing the Field The important thing is that the Industrial Expansion Act does not propose anything new, but seeks to extend principles and methods with which people have already become familiar. The New Deal has made us accept regimentation from the government to achieve artificial scarcity, and evidently President Roosevelt and the Four Horsemen take it for granted that if the government can use its power to set up a program of scarcity, which is an anachronism, the government can use the same power to set up an economy of abundance, which is a living reality. These realistic young congressmen believe, and the President seems to agree with them, that they are sowing where the New Deal plowed. They have simply framed legislation in line with New Deal methods, to make a reality of the dream of Harold Loeb in his National Survey of Potential Pro- -' duction Capacity, and brought down to earth by Mordecai Ezekiel, who seems to have proven beyond successful contradiction, that if the machinery set up by the AAA were used to secure full production in all industry, a minimum income in goods and sendees, equal to what $2500 per year will now buy, would that undernourishment mands. News of another victory for the union has been received at the Denver headuarters of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, from Juneau, Alaska, where the Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the decision of the Regional Labor Board in favor of former strikers of the Juneau Alaska Gold Mining Co. The workers whom the company previously refused to take back are to be reinstated in their jobs, and a number of them will receive back pay up to $500. UNION WINS SMELTER WORKERS VOTE C. I. 0. PERTH AMBOY, N. J. (UNS Workers in the local plant of the American Smelting and Refining Company voted 099 to 239 in favor of the Perth Amboy Smelters and Refining Workers Union at an election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board. The local union belongs to the International Union of Mine, Mill, Smelter and Refinery Workers, indeC. I. 0. affiliate. A claimwhich union falsely pendent ed to represent a majority of the workers, W'as not included on the ballot. There were 1268 votes cast out of s 1443 eligible employes. Eight voided. 22 were were blank and so-call- ed bal-lot- WOODWORKERS VOTE ON C. I. O. TO BE COMPLETED JULY 10 PORTLAND Oreg. (UNS)-Woodwor- kers the Northwest have started balloting on the question of affiliation with the Committee for Industrial Organization. More than 50,000 ballots have already been distributed to the membership, and others will be sent out of be available to every family in the United States. Reason for Poverty President Roosevelt and the sponsors of the Industrial Expansion Act know that we are not now producing enough wealth to give all our people a comfortable standard of living, and that the reason that poverty is so widespread is artificial scarcity, which has been engendered by class legislation and reactionary decisions of the supreme court. They know that if our present national production of approximately seventy billion dollars per year were to be divided equally among all of us we would all be iving in a state of penury. But if established administrative machinery, and AAA principles were used ;o boost production to whatever might is necessary to provide a decent standard of living for every person, co one would be robbed of what he now has, and nothing would Rb taken aw?ay from those now living on a scale above the average. . as soon as possible. .Unlon Wood iated to the Federation of Workers have 4 total membership . . of 100,000. Action for a referendum on join decided at tht ing the C. I. 0. was f board meeting executive Marithe while held federation, conPacific time Federation of the I ortlano. vention was in session in A balloting committee composed of three members of the executive board of the federation was elected at a joint meeting of the District Council Committee and the federation board, to conduct the referendum. Two elected members of each district council were designated to work with the committee. Ballot Asks One Question The ballot has onlv one question printed on it: Shall we affiliate with the Committee for Industrial The votes must Organization? of the joint combe in the hands before on or midnight, July mittee 10. The final result of the referendum will be made known at the convention of the Federation of Woodworkers, to be held in Tacoma, Wash., during the month of July. federation Harold Pritchett, the balof is chairman president, Wood A. Arthur committee. loting and J. Segarra are the other two members. To explain the 'questions involved in deciding upon affiliation with the C. I. 0., the committee prepared handbills for distribution to the membership of the federation. Affiliation with the C. I. 0. means joining a progressive labor movement, welding the workers In the lumber industry on a national scale into one federation, the handbill MAINE STRIKE IS GOING STRONG AS SHOE SEASON OPENS By Valery Buratl LEWISTON, Me. (UNS) With the return of the season for shoe production, the Lewiston-Aubur- n strike is now in a stronger position than it has been for some time. Another of the 19 companies against which the strike was originally called has signed with the United Shoe Workers of America. The Highland Shoe Company, of I,ewiston, has granted its 400 employes an immediate 10 per cent wage increase, five per cent more week, on November 1, a and a closed shop. Highland employes had returned to work on the basis of a consent election, which the C. I. 0. won easily. Elections at five of the original 19 companies, supervised by the 40-ho- ur Labor Board, w'ere wmn by the C. I. 0. The strike still holds against 14 concerns in Auburn, across the Androscoggin River from Lewiston. Charges filed against 12 of them by the United Shoe Workers were withdrawn pending negotiations by the National Labor Relations Board to hold elections. Orders Help Strikers The tide is turning more and more in the favor of the strikers, because wholesalers are demanding that factories give assurance they can deliver on orders placed with them. About 2500 still are on strike. Mass picketing has been resumed in front of the 14 Auburn factories. In Boston, a campaign in charge (Continued on page 3) states. It is the democratic American way of giving those who toil for a living the right to earn their bread and butter without dividing the lopf with labor racketeers, the leaflet, signed by the Balloting 4 Committee, concludes. 4 CHATTANOOGA T. W. O. C. 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