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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER 26, 1937. Page 4 LABOR ON ITS LEAGUE SUPPORTS FARMERS LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM . FORWARD MARCH NON-PARTISA- N (Continued from page 1) Corporations Govern "The corporations who fix the of grain or of butter or of Let govern you more than the this of state, more than ,H any official In this state or United States. How much voice do you have in determining those prices? How much are you consulted? How frequently do you have a vote in the election of the run those corporations? How much representation do you corporations have upon these dailv? The oviW Jmrte t?uth is tLt this vitally conduct- important government isconsent of entirely without the governed you have no voice at the prices make you want to force the prices of other farmers down below a decent living? Or do you farmers sit down here together, regardless ?f your individual nroJuct. mg out your problems jointly? ar- bitrator. The award, retroactive to Octo ber 1, sets up a minimum wage of $30 a week for retail and $35 for wholesale drivers not working on the nation even more than among commission, and 35 cents an hour farmers, it Is true that each man for inside workers. Weekly hours must buy the products of other were reduced to 45 for women and Shoe workers, 48 for men. wage earners. o Other provisions include time clothing workers, tomobile workers every worker and a half for overtime, one weeks must buy the output of other wage paid vacation for one or more AND D. C. earners. Does that make them years service, days off on legal MARYLAND TO MEET UNIONS rest peri UP STATE COUNCILSET eager to force down wages of holidays, and do those other workers? Or or .work-govern- - tool-make- au-wh- rs, 15-min- they join together, in great nationalwel-the ganizations, to pronwte the fare of all labor? Why then, if farmers buying each others lives. There, ucts can cooperate, and wage is most neces- - earners buying each others why are is wholly lacking, ucts can cooperate and earners farmers our wage in Now the wage earners vented from cooperation simply have the same problem, because they buy each others lives their things that governreceive and products? You farmers know the are the wages they f f00j answer; these two groups can, and p - do, cooperate. Their great joint J"Cdhicnt unorthe Uut . w efficient ex- is in honest, workers have so that all of products and benefit equally fairly of wheat They may about the from the abundant resources of SE? in gilnmcngt which de- - this wealthy nation, fam- Are Human Beings tennines how they and their farmer knows he must wage these When Every live. to ilies are their have sugar and cotton and wool; earners organize, through knows he that he must have shoes they power collective bargaining ir and building and upon influence machinery some can exercise worker industrial wages and their working terials. Every must have milk and Without organization- knows that he conditions. farmBut neither farmone and meat as grain. thev are as helpless - er nor wants those earner highto get wage er would be in trying his will force which at to ship products prices pr Drices by refusing extreme poverty, to market. With orgamza- the producer into foremost, of lion they gain in strength-j- ustwere Why? First and course, because both farmer and as vou would if the farmers to earner are human beings; able keep be to wage as so organized until to be considered as want market the off they their wheat I man reasonable. beings, and they are ready to are fair and I all others as human beings. treat Answer to Despotism - But even on an economic basis, newspathe in You will read know to dictasense have are enough unions they labor ners that run be to to are that if they supplied, torial and they are trying the whole world and that they are this year and next year and the The truth is that year after, with the products they have need, then the men and women we have in industry, as we must be in the marketing of farm prod- producing those things Each farm- destitution. from a despotism kept ucts a dictatorship are and every wage by private corporations thatdem- - er knows, too, he cannot find of that earner kind knows, wholly free from any own unionism an outlet for his product unocratic control. Labor human other less beings m this is one answer to that despotism to buy means have the nation American the one way in which farm-secon- - what they need. But both by principle of government know in earners that ers and wage of the governed can be made orthe between Farm them, controlling effective in industry. is one other indispen- - chinery of production and exsable method of curbing economic change, the giant corporations of When this country are seeking to take is America. despotism for themselves as much as possi-bot- h farmers and wage earners are we ble of the produce of both fann then organized strongly, and democracy restore factory. It is the primary m-i- -n will be able to terest of both groups of producthe United States. that Those who try to make you be- ers, therefore, to demand con-yoare be efficiently earners production lieve that the wage enemies will tell you that the trolled, that prices be not juggled,a industrial workers must buy your and that profits be notomore than investors, buy reasonable return products, and you must in Here is a common aim, a joint interested theirs that you are purpose, within which the inter-lohigh prices for what you sell, and ests of farmers and wage earners prices for what you buy. That the wage earners are likewise in- - are identical, and which far in high wages and in low ceeds in importance the points in conflict. prices for the necessities of life,- which their interests interthe Forces Must of Join , So, by the reasoning To achieve that joint purpose, ests who oppose both farmers and wage earners, these two groups of- to bring the highest possible should not form an alii- ing standards to farmers and city ance. Lets look at that reason- - workers alike, we must join our forces. We must present a united ing. Can Cooperate opposition to that group of finan- the prod- ciers and industrialists who con-ucEvery farmer buys of other farmers. Dairy farm- - trol the factories employing wage ers must buy flour; wheat farm- - earners, and who control the mar-er- s must buy meat; live stock kets for your farm products. The raisers must buy sugar; sugar sole hope of these financiers and n beet farmers must buy cotton; industrialists is to keep us must is sole in united our potatoes; buy hope rated; planters and potato growers must buy effort against them, wool. But does that make your in- Labors League terest different from the interests will support the program of the Does that! farmers of the United States in of other farmers? - Se (Continued from Page 3) versity of Pennsylvania was the National Labor Relations Board, November 9. Local CIO of the C. I. 0. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, which defeated the independent United Employes Association, plans to follow up its victory by asking the company for a signed contract establishing a week with no reduction in pay and double time for overtime. C. J. Clements, local president, hailed the results of the election as a triumph of genuine progressive unionism over the new company tactics of independent unions. cy pre-factori- - "change tr ma-the- hu-Dric- es ods daily during July and August. 30-ho- ur lumbia, which opened in Baltimore to set up a State Industrial Union Council November 8. Some 250 delegates representing nearly 100 local unions in the area attended. ROARD RULES AGAINST USE OF A. F. OF L. AS COMPANY UNION The WASHINGTON (UNS) employment of an A. F. of L. union for company-unio- n purposes, to interfere with the of the workers in a union of their choice, is as illegal as the usual comforms of employer-dominate- d pany unionism, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled in the case of the Consolidated - Edison Company of New York. The Boards decision, invalidating a contract with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, held that the company had imposed this A. F. of L. union on its employes and had discrimi-(Continuon page 5) on BALTIMORE, Md. (UNS) Unity in the labor movement and the need of industrial unions for organizing the unorganized were stressed by speakers at the three-da- y convention of C. I. O. unions in Pa. PITTSBURGH, (UNS) and the District of Co- of the Maryland Employes Westinghouse Airbrake Company at Wilmerding voted 2,309 to 1,908 in favor of the C. I. 0. at an election conducted by BEST WISHES TO OUR LABOR FRIENDS I. O. UNION WINS WESTING HOUSE VOTE; NOW ASKS FOR PACT C. every possible way. Anchor Lumber Co. We will be for you in every industrial district in the United States. We will insist that congressmen and legislators who represent city workers must vote with the farmer representatives, to protect farmer interests. 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