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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, NOVEMBER 12, 1937. Page 2. Union LabeL Christmas Gifts from 4:15 to 4:30 p. m., M. S. T over the blue network of the Na tional Broadcasting company Tuesday, November 30. This talk will be in connection with a campaign among our holi day shoppers to buy only union made Christmas gifts. The Union Label Trades Depart ment urges all members of organ ized labor to listen in and also to LADOIl ON ITS Uta i) Mor Extablihhfd 1929 This paper receives Service, a C. 1. FOKVVAKD MARCH A MEMBER OF THE News Union 0, affiliate. benville, Ohio. 04 matter March 28, 1930, at the post office Entered as second-clas- s at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription (Continued from page 1) sored by Weirton Steel has been one of the points brought out in hearings now in progress in Steu $1.30 Advertising rates by request. per annum Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News. 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. Publisher M. I. THOMPSON Office Manager L. M. THOMPSON In its complaint against Weirton Steel the S. W. 0. C. charged that a hatchet gang was sponsored by the company as a means of keeping bona fide unionism out of Weirton. Specific cases where the followed union hatchet gang members and organizers around, beat them up and ordered them to leave town, is on the Labor Board records. For wearing union buttons in the mill, union members were forcibly evicted and warned they would be killed if they re turned. COUNCIL PLEDGES AID TO K. C. FORD UNION C. I. O. We stand for what the Constitution stands for domestic tranquility, the establishment of justice, and the promotion of the general welfare. UTAH LABOR NEWS. ' from the beginning, and as the impartial investigation of the Labor Board has just confirmed, a fight to a finish for control of the warehousemen is being waged by Dave Beck of the Teamsters and other West Coast A, F. of L. officials. Teamsters have been ordered to blockade movement of cargo and gangs of sluggers have been active on the docks, but the longshoremen notify their neighbors about this declare that in spite of the gangbroadcast by telephone or other ster methods used against them, wise. the boycott is ineffective. CLAIMS OF WEST COAST LONGSHOREMEN UPHELD BY BOARD SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. (UNS) West Coast leaders of the C.I.C International Longshoremen anc Warehousemen hailed the order o Labor Relations the National Board designating their organiza tion as the only qualified representative of warehouse employes as complete confirmation of their C. I. 0. STARTS DRIVE TO ENROLL 200,000 IN BACKING INDUSTRY WASHINGTON (UNS) A drive to organize the 200,000 packing house workers of the country wras launched by the C. I. O. at a con4 ference in Chicago October attended by more than 100 representatives for a number of C. I. 0. packing house locals already organized. The conference unanimously approved the setting up of a Packing House Workers Organizing committee under the chairmanship of Van A. Bittner, Chicago, regional director of the Steel Workers Organizing committee. Bittner declared at the conference that a number of agreements have been signed in the industry and many thousands of workers have already signed up with the C. I. 0. which has been quietly organizing the industry for some time. Walter Smethurst from Washington, executive assistant to C. I. (Continued on page 3) 23-2- KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UNS) Following a public announcement claims. After receiving a report of by officials of the Ford Motor Company that the Kansas City- thorough preliminary examination plant would be shut down indefi- of the facts made by the N. L. R nitely, the C. I. O. Industrial Union B. regional office in San Francisco Council, representing 15,000 organ- the Board in Washington statec ized workers and their families, in an order issued September 18 the Internationa pledged the moral and financial hat neither support of all C. I. 0. affiliates of Brotherhood of Teamsters, ChaufGreater Kansas City, to the Ford feurs, Stablemen and Helpers of employes in their struggle to bring America, nor any other labor orHappenings that Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend Checks and about the reopening of the plant. ganization except the I. L. W. U., Tax Bills of Every Individual National and International ProbCharging that the shutdown was claims to have any members lems Inseparable from Local Welfare. obviously an attempt to destroy among such employes or to have the organization work of the been designated by any of them United Automobile Workers, the for the purposes of collective barThe cyclonic disturbances in the sumption has been satisfactory, I C. I. 0. Council passed a resolution gaining. stock market have detracted at- though not startling. Raw cotton I demanding that the Jlrd Company Under these circumstances an I b brought to account for violating election tention from business production prices have been firm. by secret ballot is unnecesAGRICULTURE: The farmers! the Wagner Labor Act and be and activity indices. A security and would serve no useful sary I LABOR collapse that, at the bottom, wiped cash income this year will be the I compelled to reopen the Kansas purpose, the order declared. out values to the tune of some largest in many years, and may City plant. The Board also found that the It appears that the Ford Motor I. L. W. U. represents a majority $25,000,000,000 has been far and touch $10,000,000,000. The special! Get Alt Three I occurof domestic session been has called the Congress Company will reopen its Kansas of the employes in the unit major away alleged At this writing, to consider additional faTm-ai- d rence of 1937. City plant, the resolution read, in the petition to be appropriate I work-aconlaws seem a of Smiling Associated a majority of economists permanent rather than upon condition that 2,000 and that the companies have recfarm-de 1 members now the who are worst of nature. the ers vinced that or more, Thus, emergency Service the I. L. W. U. as the repbade is over. A very large pro ers as a whole are in an unusual- - I of the United Automobile Work-l- ognized such resentative of and employes happy position. ers, surrender their cards, abandon portion of margin dealers were A Gasoline Flying AUTOMOBILES: It is impos-- 1 their affiliation with their interna- - have entered into agreements with wiped out in the break. As Business Week puts it, There is a sible to exaggerate the importance I tional union and sever all relations the I. L. W. U. The Longshoremen and Warelimit to every downward spiral of this industry, which accounts I with organized labor. Cycol and Veedol housemen filed a petition with the The closing down of .the plant and that limit seems to have been for nearly 15 per cent of the na-- l I Motor Oils approached in the present situa tional income. The 1938 cars are was called a clear violation of the regional board on September 9, requesting an investigation and certion. out, and are little changed from National Labor Relations Act. tification of a collective bargaining So far as industrial production last years with the exception of ' ! . representative for inside employes is concerned, there has been a sub- one or two makes. Many minor, but I UNION LABEL of various warehouse companies in stantial drop but the drop was no few major improvements have! BROADCAST Look the San Francisco. . where near as severe as the drop been made. Prices are higher. The L. I. W. rec-U. members say that dein stocks. In two months, shares prediction is for a 1938 sales J I. M. Ornburn, secretary-treas-or- d which equal or surpass 1937. urer, Union Label Trades Depart-Un- it spite the fact that A. F. of L. as a whole went down 38 per cent FLYING A declining to the late 1935 level profits may also be larger, I ment, will give an address on Teamsters do not represent the warehouse employes and have not Lets Get Associated though not to the lows of 1932. In inasmuch as increases in the retail been to the same period, business activity selling prices of most cars are a asked as represent them, Reason to Be Proud trifle greater than the increases in dropped a little over 9 per cent. Two pars0ns were having lunch the C. I. O. union has claimed A few industries notably steel manufacturing costs. Independ-- 1 a farm during certain celebra-ent- s will not, in all probability, recovsome inroads tions connected make may with the local er much of their recent losses in into the Big Three but they will church. The farmers wife cooked THE GREATEST LINE OF FUR COATS 1938 MODELS production for a considerable be insignificant, according to ob-- 1 a COuple of chickens, saying the A Small Deposit Will Secure Your Selection and General Mtors I family could dine on the remains length of time. Most industries, servers, however, hope for a good winter Chrysler and Ford will be the big after the' visitors had gone. Cleaning Repairing Storing Done by Expert Furriers and spring business. The predic But the parsons wolfed tion is that this years Christmas Senn?oT7Cj Recent deflationary I the chickenshungry bare events have caused a downward buying will hold up well. was conducting farmer Later the Some specific business informa- trend in retail prices, especially I round the farm, when hs guests tion of interest follows: Utahs Oldest Exclusive Furrier foods. Increased consumption is an qJj rooster commenced to crow, COMMODITIES: 124 East 3rd South in the result. This is especially no-- 1 geemg mighty proud of himself, Dropped phone Wrasatch 2692 value along with securities, but to ticeable in the meat field zooming said one of the guests. a much lesser extent. Belief is that prices had brought about consumer No wonder, growled the far- the trend in the future will be strikes in many areas. mer, hes got two sons in the slowly upward. ministry. POWER AND LIGHT: America Board Approves is constantly becoming more com The Regal Touch Sanatorium Site pletely electrified with the utility industrys output holding to a high touch with royalty, have you ? level. New power production recThe battle over the location of ords have been constantly record the state tuberculosis sanatorium! by a queen he. ed. The industrys net earnings, was closed Tuesday when the site stung however, remain at practically the finding commission voted unani 1932 level, due to greatly increas- mously to adhere to its previous ed taxes and higher fuel and ma- choice of Ogden after a three-hou- r terial costs. Its political troubles, public hearing. such as Federal competition, have The board formally accepted the not been abated, and retard its deed and abstract to the normal development. ;ract in Ogden that had been purRETAIL TRADE: Has held to a chased by the Ogden chamber of high level throughout the country, commerce and donated to the state IN ALL VARIETIES substantially surpassing the same as a hospital site. in 1936. period Governor Henry H. Blood conSlightest improvement 3 per cent has occurred in ducted the hearing, and was aided 20 New York. Agricultural buying is iy occasional questions from other alcohol heavy. joard members, who are: : CONSTRUCTION The rise in C. B. Hawley of Salt Lake City, by volume building costs has at least tem- Ora Bundy of Ogden, Mrs. D. C. porarily stopped. As a result, con- Gibson of Helper, and James Bant tracts let have been rising. of Eureka. COTTON: This seasons exports have been about 10 per cent ahead A bookless house is a poorly fur-- 1 of last seasons. Domestic con- - nished one. ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS for PANEK FUR COMPANY 33-ac- wmvffl WINE re WELCOME, AND BEST WISHES TO LABOR Ammei?nsaim AT MMaMs 241 SOUTH MAIN REVAMPED NEW MANAGEMENT y (MirnmsBiimLmm OnDtonBUD |