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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH- OCTOBER 22, 1937. Page 4' ! - Editorial IPage o Tine Otali Labor News vacation with pay, and time and a POLITICAL OUTLOOK NEW DEALER half for overtime, which they arc now getting for the first time. (Continued from rage 1) The pay increase was retroac(Continued from Fagel) November 15 will be conducted by tive, bringing some of the men as women of the club, announced the what has long been a peaceful, if such a degree that many of the much as $75 in back wages includ Mrs. r eight-houAn Loomis, vice president. not sedentary tribe. So students tribal orators are fond or compar- ing overtime. day disto was also L. A. some Rock of the of F. to the have given week, specifiec thought ing I in the contract. "QUARANTINE covering the import of Greens Gibraltar. . One word reverberated around remarks. Ilut 57 years of effort to unite world. Some peoples only idea the I For many years now the craft have proved unavailing, due to CALLS A. F. OF L. REBUFF of discipling a child is to turn up chiefs of the A. F. of L. have con similar long and even more TO BERNARD SHAMEFUL natures handiest spot and whack fined their fighting to their own strenuous efforts to divide all it. Just so some think that the hos some would-bvarie-e ranks, though reserving members into 57 ReMinn. (UNS) j DULUTII, only way to have peace with unIfusal of the Minnesota Federation tility for newcomers who have ties of craft unions.' In ruly nations running amuck is to I sought to enter those ranks. of Labor to permit Congressman Democracy On to war. There are other resort the lead who now when those I fact, John Bernard to speak at the con- Exhibition effective measures. One word C. I. 0. attempted to bring large Green described the A. F. of L. vention held in Ilibbing the latter That word is suggests many. numbers of unorganized into the as "an exhibition of de- - part of September, was denounced When a prominent "Quarantine. A. F. of L. they were thrown cut pow-wo"one as most the shameful of the in with action, writer a though mocracy pronounced for disturbing the peace. events in the history of the bias like David LawThe war whoop at Denver are majority of organized workers are rence calls the Presidents Chicago representation; though lit-- 1 nesota Labor movement, by Midthe first signs of militancy exhibJ west chiefs dozen a more official than tie of Labor, big newspaper speech one "which the whole world ited by the tribe in many years. I allowed to their have ever are the Woodworkers has been waiting several months Council, been to content Its chiefs have doz-- 1 half a and An to hear from the lips of the Presieditorial Bernard huntthough barely say; own their to acclaiming narrowing keep en of these make all major deeis- - aa "a congressman who used the of the United States it is dent hostilities without ing grounds, a block votes of the ions, time he his that some of the rest of us through prestige that gained by against the enemies of labor who I to do not election overhauled deign to membership they our thinking. t, to organ-consulbeen have congress help ravaging the country and much of which is in jze the workers that elected him, and keeping millions of their I G. O. P. IS SHORT ON any case imaginary. said that he "helped obtain for the brothers in thrall. I CAMPAIGN ISSUES Hutcheson, miners of northern Minnesota the It is only since the C. I. 0. has Carpenters Chief LAWRENCE A. JOHNSON driven these enemies back, with for instance, wields a block vote of first contract ever signed in the Qualified for City Commission Senator Thomas said the Repubobvious benefit to the A. F. of L. 300,000 like a sledge hammer, I history of the mining industry in the Salt Lake City primary lican party has no campaign isat of have woodworkers chiefs the craft that 100,000 hough Minnesota. itself, sues. Let any Republican run for shown signs of war-lik- e activity. this alleged membership are now I Representative Bernard, elected election Tuesday. on a platform advocating reoffice But true to their tradition of solidly enrolled in the C. I. O. Farmer-Laboon r t0 Congress the of the New Deal legislation famwithin the peal No wonder Green detected an partv ticket, has done organizing TWO EPOCH- keeping fighting how far he will get, desee and all be to directing ily, they appear expression of absorbing interest work for the C. I. O. Steel Workers MAKING YEARS clared the senator. their hostility against the C. I. O. in his listeners when he followed Organizing Committee, "Republicans are not thinking of rather than against the enemies of lis cracks about democracy by1 Senator Thomas said, "when 1940, all labor. union! of the from (Continued Carpenters talking page 1) T. O. C. WINS VOTE W. spread propaganda and make Greens speech was full of ref- IN 8 LARGE TEXTILE Trying to Unite against the inertia and obstruc- they of dictatorship against .. charges erences to ripping, tearing, split-....tionism of the Federation leaderBy Dividing IV kUUril Roosevelt the administration. P11LLb and division dualism. buthe Green made an apparent effort ting, ship. They planned their camWhat are thinking about they to explain the mystery of what he seemed unconscious that he was paigns carefully to avoid any is 1938. The Republicans would NEW YORK (UNS) Elections and the other A. F. of L. chiefs thus indicting himself and his even of dual unionism. But once they actually started like to make a showing in the conbeen doing in all the years of sociates. For there was no division I in the various branches of the tex-unt- il Na-by organizing he split the labor movement tile industry conducted by the the workers into the gressional elections next year, but their peaceful inactivity, when he dur-from tional C. Labor unions out Board the I. 0. Relations A. F. of L., the executive council this appears almost an impossibilsaid: What we have been trying driving the A. F. of L.; and dualism ing the past week continue to show at last sprang into action but in- ity without constructive issues. to do a1! these 57 years of exists ence was to unite and crystallize began when he chartered dual and decisive victories for the C. I. 0. to action against organization, VOTERS MUST LEARN , our movement. company unions to fight the Unit- - Textile Workers Organizing corn- against labor unity. The full responsibility for split- IMPORTANCE OF Some progress has clearly been ed Mine Workers, the Textile mittee. I PRIMARY ELECTION & Mill the Smelter made in the direction of crystalli- Workers, Mine, Immediately following the poll in ting the labor movement was zation if not petrifaction. In fact, Workers and other bona fide the American Woolen company shouldered by the council, wnen in It is a sorry situation when in I movement has been stopped to umons September, 1936, it drove the C. I. plants in Lawrence, Mass., at O. the capital city of Utah less than unions out of the Federation which the T. W. 0. C. was chosen of the registered voters conto to act for 11,000 workers, reports rather than permit them interest take to tinue enough in their citys the organize unorganized received by the national office affairs to go to the polls and vote HANGING T0GETI1ER-- 0R ELSE L. into the of A. F. show that workers in eight large As Howard predicted, however, their choices for candidates for cotton textile mills in North Caro- this did By DR. CHARLES STELZLE not prevent the workers city ofices. lina and Georgia have designated from We consider the primary elecExecutive Director, Good Neighbor League organizing. It simply meant the C. I. 0. textile union as their that the tion more important than the gendehad craft leadership collective bargaining agent. These eral November election for the liberately decreed that they should elections followed one the in the com-1 be organized outside the A. F. simple reason that it is in the If there was only one watch in for raising the standards of the world it would be priceless. petency and compensation of the L.ane Cotton Mill, New Orleans, of L. primary that the voters choose the best timber as candidates, and The Rising Sun of The fact that there are millions millions of backward workers in La., also won by the T. W. 0. C. 1 he mills m Atlanta, Ga., which A New Movement weed out of the field those they of watches and that most of them American Industry. The method Not all the labor men who gath- do not desire. are cheap, pulls down the value for achieving this purpose lies with voted to affiliate with the T. W. 0. include Some of those who neglected to the C., Whitter Silver in Atlantic City October 11 will movein er statesmen of the best watches made. the labor the their franchise at the and exercise have of memories ment. Lake; Scottdale; what Georgia happened If there was only one working& Duck ma-- 1 primary election Tuesday perhaps two The before. there The company. Cordage years man in the world, he would be the five cotton mills in North Carolina jority of the 35 C. I. 0. union think there were no burning greatest man in the world. The ijAUim. ON ITC1 and their associates sues at stake, but when they go are Mansfield Mills InCi. Jennings fact that thert are millions of come from industries that were to pay their" taxes and find increasCotton ManuFORWARD MARCH Mills; Granite Falls workingmen in the world, and that almost facturing company; Hickory Spin- 1935. completely unorganized in ed levies they howl and kick many of these axe low grade, aplenty. . high-grade the makes ning company, and Granite Cord- workingman We consider there were plenty of ( Continued from page 3) Youth will in predominate, inferior in value, so far as his age company. issues in the primary campaign to if For not in always years. now being conducted on the ques- compensation is concerned. Approximately 4800 workers are spirit C. interest I. O. the a new labor represents every taxpayer in Salt Some workingmen have thd no- tion of affiliation with the C. I. O. employed in these plants. Reports tion that if a few aristocrats in show an overwhelming vote in reaching the national office from movement, with many new lead- Lake City. The bonded indebtedthe labor world get together they favor of joining, union officials southern regions indicate that ers who have won their spurs in ness has been mounting year by can keep up their rate of wages say. The N. M. U. recommended rapidly increasing numbers of mill the organizing campaigns of the year for the past 44 years ,and the tax rates have been raised to a and general economic conditions, affiliation at its July convention workers are expressing a desire to past two years. is perhaps not without sig point where home and other propIt no matter what happens to the in New York. join the T. W. 0. C. C. 1. 0 erty owners are groaning under nificance that the rest of the workers. The new contracts signed with Meanwhile workers in the prin-th- e will set its face toyouthful the rising sun the tax load. nine They are entirely mistaken. The steamship cjpai woolen and worsted in a the at when the time east, rate of wages paid to workingmen provide union recogm- - ing ccnters ag a result of the re remnants of the A. F. of L. are the Something must be done about taxes, you hear the taxpayone not is determined tlon ? clsed shop, wage increases, cent election in the American by the rallied at Denver by aging leaders ers say. man or the small handful of men overtime pay, an eight-hou- r , day, Lawrence are whose gaze is fixed on the setting t Nothing can be done about the at the top, but by the last man, improved living quarters, eight LWv; Lip-who h sun of lost situation their so long as the voters of opportunity. comes through the shop door, holidays with pay, extra pay for C. enoorsement T. of the W. 0. the take the dont care atcity This is practical application of the certain types of work and arbitrain decisive. titude Plans under are the union equally contract.' election. law of diminishing returns. primary tion of disputes. Election dav whether it is a Seven companies in the bleach' way for arranging elections under If that man is willing to accept the N. L. R. B. in the remaining ing, dyeing and finishing industry primary or a regular election, a low rate of wages, or if he cant MINERS UNION 27 mills of the company, as well as in Massachusetts and New Jersey should be a challenge to every votearn more than a low rate of ORGANIZED in other woolen and worsted com- have recently reached an agree- er to manifest the quality of his he once lowers at value the wages, of every mans job. This is so bement with the T. W. O. C., provid- or her citizenship. Voting at panies. Glenn board member Gillespie, colThe T. W. 0. C. was chosen cause he at once comes into commini- every election is not only a duty for a a week, ing of the International Union of lective d petition with the bargaining agent in some mum wage, and legal holidays with and responsibility of citizenship, Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, 15 of the but it is a right and privilege, as man. elections recently held in pay. has completed a new local union, well. Therefore, if labor is to make No. in silk major plants Pennsylvania. Stockton. at 424, Next year there will be a stateprogress it must carry with it With agreements entered into pre- AUTO UNION TO REPRESENT Milack was elected wide Joseph presion last man the job. For primary election to choose every viously, the bulk of the silk work- BENDIX COMPANY POLICE best and most suitable candidates unless it does so, the men who are dent of the new local, which starts ers in the country are today under the for various offices. left behind are going to hang on with a splendid membership. Judging CHICAGO (UNS) Exclusive bv the as a dead weight. of voters in priapathy city bargaining rights in the Bendix maries it will be necessary to do I repeat the destiny of labor S. W. O. C. SIGNS FIRST RUMMAGE SALE Products Corporation at South a lot of educational will be determined not by a small TEXAS AGREEMENT work to make Bend, Ind., have been granted to the citizens realize the group of highly organized men, importance The womens auxiliary to the the C. I. 0. United Automobile of the HOUSTON, Texas (UNS) The but by the great mass of the direct primary law. Utah ofassociation will the Workers, Optometrist Chicago regional Steel Workers Organizing ComIf we are to have good governcommon workers. Because this is true, it is of vital mittee recently, signed its first hold a rummage sale Saturday, fice of the National Labor Rela- ment it is absoluaely necessary to October 23, at 25 Richards street. tions Board has announced. concern to every workingman as contract in Texas, reports nominate and, elect the very best Company policemen are among available material, and for this director H. A. Rasmussen. This rummage sale is for the to whether the mass of the workA. visual fund, the employes who will be repre- reason it is highly ers are either making progress or The General American Transpor- benefit of the P.-that is and the under direction of Mrs. sented by the union, according to the citizenry vote atimportant tation Worth behind. Even of Fort a the primaries. Corporation falling comparatively small group of incompetent has agreed to full recognition of Wm. H. Landmesser, president of a ruling of the Board which also or indifferent workingmen can the C. I. 0. union and has conceded the auxiliary. empowered the U. A. W. local to eluded. The auxiliary and its friends bargain collectively for all hourly hold' back the This is the first time that a substantial wage increases. The men in the plant who have have been busy saving and collect- production workers including ap- union in this country has won barworkingmen of our never belonged to a union before ing articles of clothing, as well as prentices, factory clerks and time gaining rights for plant policemen, country. All of which means that organ- are jubilant over the gains won. some household articles, and some checkers. Other clerical workers said Joseph M. Jacobs, union atized labor must become responsible especially the one to two weeks unusual values will be offered. and supervisory empoyes are ex- - torney. DITORIALS I 40-ho- ur w non-Roosev- elt Min-deni- ed ce as-ha- ve one-four- th , I coal-carryi- ; ng produc-compani- es I 36-ho- high-grad- e, ur high-wage- so-call- ed sub-distri- ct T. hard-workin- g, high-ly-intellig- -- i |