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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JULY 9. 1937. 6 .. . BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT The business men and union members invite America the :. . Visit Dinghani ami sire NEW C. I. largest open pit copper mine in North Read the ads in the Utah Labor News. you 0. NATIONAL UNION LABOR ON ITS TO ORGANIZE FEDERAL EMPLOYES FORWARD MARCH (Continued from page 1) two weeks, Baker said. Headquarters of the union have been set up in the Transportation 17th and II Streets Building, Washington, I). C. Lodges in Favor of New Union The nucleus of the new union will be made up of members of 17 government lodges in Washington and Baltimore, with more than 4000 members. Five of the lodges, expelled last September by the American Federation of Govern ment Employes, are as follows: Social Security Board of Washington; Securities Exchange Commission; Railroad Retirement Board; D. C. Public Assistance Di vision; and Farm Credit. Seven other lodges suspended in June are: General Accounting Of fice, Lodge 8; Department of Labor 12; Agriculture 31; Works' Progress Administration 139; Interstate Commerce Commission 58; Reset- tlement Administration 200; and Beltsville Research Center 125. Three Independents Included Three independent lodges Rural Electrification, Baltimore Social Security Board, and the Congressional Secretaries Guild are also included in the group of government lodges favoring affiliation with the C. I. O. Two others, the large part of whose members are said to be strongly in favor of joining the new union are: Interdepartmental Lodge 28, made up of colored employes of various government departments and affiliated at present with the A. F. G. E., and Loans and Currencies, Treasury Dept. In other parts of the country groups of federal government emI. O. senployes with strong pro-timent are to be found in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Detroit, and New Orleans. The organizing campaign of the United Federal Forkers Union to start with will be directed toward these cities as well as Washington. C. STATEMENT OF LEWIS ON UNION OF U. S. WORKERS WASHINGTON (UNS) John chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization, has issued the following statement on plans to organize federal government employes into a new C. I. O. union: , The Committee for Industrial Organization feels that government workers, numerous groups of whom L. Lewis, WELCOME, LABOR When in Bingham It's Best Wishes and Success have made application for affilia tion with the Committee for Indus' trial Organization, are entitled to have serious consideration given to the problems confronted by federal workers. Numerous conferences have been held between representatives of the chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization and federal employe groups, and it is our judg ment that a provisional union should be formed to be known as the United Federal Workers of America. Baker Appointed Head With this in view, I have selected Jacob Baker to act, during the organizing campaign among federal workers, as president of the provisional organization. Mr. Baker, who is well known throughout government circles, having acted for the past several years as assistant administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Works Progress Administration, is. thoroughly familiar with government procedure and an executive and organizer of national repute. He will be charged with the responsibility of conducting an organizing campaign among government workers, and with the approval of the chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization, and as the necessity arises, he will select a policy board in which geography and concentration of federal employes will be given consideration. Mr. Baker will have charge of the organizing staff, and he will enunciate the )olicy of the provisional organiza-ion- . Policies May Be Changed All federal employes will be eligible for membership in the United Federal Workers of America, ex- cept executives with authority to hire or discharge, members of the military, and for the time being, postal employes. Plans for the completion of the organization will be subject to change from time to time and new policies will be added with the ap proval of the Committee for Indus' trial Organization. The new union will later adopt a program designed to improve working conditions, salaries, tenure of office, and promote the enactment of legislation that will provide a labor board to which government employes can appeal for the adjustment of grievances.. C. I. 0. to Assume Initial Expense The policy of the provisional United Federal Workers of America and all of its affiliated branches will at all times be enunciated by the international executive officers through and with the consent of the national policy board of the organization, and in conformity with the ideals of the Committee for Industrial Organization. Because of the circumstances surrounding the employment of federal workers, strikes and picketing shall be deemed a violation of the principles of the provisional organization. The Committee for Industrial Organization will assume the initial financial obligations necessary, will extend organizing assistance and personnel, as well as the facilities of the several offices of the Committee for Industrial Organization set- up throughout the United States, and the organizing campaign of the provisional union - to the Miners & Smeltermen (Continued from page 5) the Flintkote Co., roofing materials manufacturer of New Jersey, also entered into contracts. General Strike Postponed After unsuccessful efforts to reach a peaceful agreement with the Cleveland Worsted Mills, with plants at Cleveland and Ravenna, Ohio, the T. W. 0. C. led 3000 employes out on strike Tuesday. The will undoubtedly strategic walk-ohasten settlements with the union throughout the woolen and worsted industry. The general silk strike is being held up pending negotiations with a large group of Pennsylvania and New Jersey manufacturers. Mill owners at two meetings instructed their committees to arrive at an if agreement without a shut-dow- n possible. Meanwhile the strike threat the signing of contracts speeded up by the Wm. Skinner Co. of Hold yoke, Mass., maker of smaller and three silks, firms in Pennsylvania. ut widely-advertize- METAL MINERS, SMELTER-ME- N MAKE UNION GAINS That DENVER, Colo. (UNS) the progress of union organization conducted - by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, that is sweeping the nation will virtually include every metal miner and smelter worker in the organization if it continues at the present rate, was predicted by John M. Sherwood, international secretary from the Denver headquarters of the organization. In Leadville, Colo., a charter will be installed the latter part of this week to the recently organized Leadville Mill and Smeltermens Union No. 393. Eight additional charters were issued during the past week to the following locals: The American and Detroit Brass Workers Union No. 385. Over 110Q men formed the local in Detroit, Mich. Union Waco Cement Workers No. 386 at Waco, Texas; Adaro-nic- k Miners Union No. 387, Mines-villN. Y.; United Open Pit Miners Union No. 388, Columbus, 0.; Penryn Miners Union No. 389, Penryn, Calif.; Houston Cement Workers Union No. 390, Houston, Texas; Pittsburg Clay Workers Union, Pittsburg, Calif.; Arthur and Magna Millmens union, Magna, Utah. A signed agreement was reached with the Monolith Portland Midwest company, of Laramie, Wyo., which calls for a minimum wage of $4.80 for an day. The local was recently formed with a charter membership of 150 men. In Selby, Calif., a strike of Local No. 51 at the American Smelting and Refining Co., was settled in favor of the union. The strike grew out of the conduct of a mine foreman who wras unsatisfactory to the metal miners. Negotiations for a wage and hour agreement is going forward by I. U. M. M. S. representatives with the heads of the National Cement Co. at Bessemer Ala., following an election conducted by the Car-quin- ez will be under the direct supervision of the chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization. Wishing Success to Lark Miners Local No, 91 LARK MERCANTILE Best Wishes and Success to Bingham Miners Meats and General Merchandise Slavonian Store Phone W. J. FAIIRNI -:- - WILMINGTON, Employes FRIEND OF LABOR le ur WELCOME, BINGHAM MINERS The DIAMOND Friends cf Labor UNION MADE BEER ON TAP Bingham Canyon Good Luck to Bingham Miners WHEN IN BINGHAM Itc The COPPER RING Union Made Beer on Tap OUR BEST WISHES TO THE MINERS OF BINGHAM Phone 88 Super-Servic- Everything for the Phone 88 AUTO 87 Main e Hudson Adderley and Nichols Terraplane Friends of Labor International Trucks Chrysler Plymouth Bingham, Utah Sales and Service BEST WISHES TO BINGHAM Street MINERS Bingham Mercantile Co. Phone 14-1- 5 BINGHAM, UTAH Dependable Service Groceries - Hardware - Crockery - Furniture - Trunks and Valises Dry Goods - Shoes - Mens Furnishing Goods Our Best Wishes to Bingham Miners Bingham Canyon Clinic Hospital Best Wishes to Bingham Miners Ask for Budweiser or Beckers Beer Made by Union Labor Union Mined Phone 39 NICK BOLIC Lark, Utah 502-J-- l 10-ho- e, Del. (UNS) of the Wilmington Enameling Co., in the patent leather field, have voted 79 to 3 to be represented by the National Leather Workers Association of the C. I. O. Mining Supplies Union Mined Coal Boari Taxi Workers Organizing Committee won an 88 per cent victory, provides for a closed shop; a week of which six days; a pay-scaFIFTH AVE BUS CO. and single gives night workers AGREES TO ELECTION shift men $18 a week plus 40 per FOR 1200 WORKERS cent of all bookings over $45 a week; day men $15 a week plus 40 NEW YORK (UNS) The Fifth per cent of bookings over $37.50; Avenue Coach Company, traditional and one weeks vacation with $25 foe of unionism in New York, pay. Prior to the agreement taxi drivcapitulated to the demands of the C. ers I. and other employes worked unTransport Workers, 0., Union, for a collective bargaining election limited hours and depended solely among the company's 1200 em- on commissions. ployes. The T. W. U.s Taxi Workers J. A. Ritchie, president of the Organizing Committee which is company which operates the fa- headed by Eugene P. Connelly has mous double deck sight - seeing also succeeded in obtaining collecbuses along Fifth Avenue, after a tive bargaining elections for some series of conferences with Harry 10,000 employes of the Sunshine-Radi- o Sacher, counsel for the T. W. U., System, Inc., Atlas and Libagreed to cease interference with erty taxi fleets. This election nas the C. I. O. drive among his em- been tentatively set for June 30. ployes and submit to the election. The only other large taxi fleet Mayor La Guardia's City Industrial in the greater New York area, the Relations Board has been asked to Parmelee Systems, Inc., employer set an early date for the election. of 3200 men, signed approximately The T. W. U. came through with an alleged agreement with a reseveral new victories in the New cently organized A. F. L. union. York area within the past week. The A. F. L. contract was not ratiIt signed the first collective bar- fied by Parmelee employes who ingaining agreement in the taxi-ca- b sist on C. I. O. membership. field, becoming the sole bargaining agency for some 1100 employes of ELECTIONS ORDERED the Terminal Systems, Inc., operator of one of the largest taxi AT 12 MAINE PLANTS fleets in greater New York. Terms of Contract LEWISTON, Me. (UNS) Shoe The agreement, negotiated after workers in 12 plants of the Au-- ( an election in which the T. W. Us Continued on page 7) National Labor Relations which designated the internationa by almost an unanimous vote. Friend of Labor Phone Highland Boy Bingham Citizens Coal & Supply Co. 126 f |