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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. MAY 20. 1938. Page 2. Wit af) labor J Established 1929 A Labor on Its Forward LEWIS CALLS PROGRAM FOR 3,500,000 WPA JOBS MODEST INDEED JEM second-clas- s matter March 28, 1930, at the post at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March Subscription. Advertising rates by request. office 3, 1879. $1.50 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. M. I. L. M. THOMPSON THOMPSON March; C. MEMBER OF THE This paper receives Union News Service, a C. 1. 0. affiliate. Entered as court upheld a Labor Board order compelling reinstatement of C. I, 0. union members after a strike. The court decided that a workman who goes on strike is still an em1. ploye of his company within the meaning of the Labor Relations I ed on work suited to their needs Act, and therefore is entitled to I the protection of the Act. The and skills- 2. Projects should be socially court decision wTas unanimous. necessary and productive. 3. Workers should not be requir- SAN PEDRO STEVEDORES ed to degrade themselves as pau- WIN BATTLE TO JOIN C. I. 0. pers in securing relief jobs. 4. Funds should be appropriated LOS ANGELES, Calif. (UNS) in such a way that emergencies San Pedro union longshoremen can be met as they arise. now have been legally recognized Nations Boast as having the right to give up their One of the proudest boasts of A. F. L. charter and join the C. 1. 0. our nation has always been the Reuben S. Superior American standard of living, Schmidt, whoJudge ofdeclared formerly Lewis said. ficials of the International LongFor those who are on WPA, shoremen & Warehousemens Union that American standard of living in contempt of court for protesting means an average of less than $52 against his ruling preventing the a month income. That is an aver(Continued from page 3) age of approximately $620 a year. In the southern wage region workers on WPA receive as little Welcome, Labor, for your as $21 a month and 15c an hour. Most of the men on these projects Outing Decoration Day, Monhave families to support. day, May 30 Government has the obligation SEE US FOR FOOD of operating decent standards. It now pays at levels below those of BARGAINS sweatshops, below those universally accepted as absolute minimums for American citizens. Publisher Office Manager We stand for what the Constitution stands for -"domestic tranquility," the "establishment of justice," and the "promotion of the general welfare." UTAH LABOR NEWS. WASHINGTON, D. C. (UNS) Describing as modest indeed the New Deals relief - recovery program, Chairman John L. Lewis of the C. I. 0. has recommended immediate passage of a relief appropriation sufficient to provide 3, 500,000 jobs. Pointing out that there are now 13,000,000 workers able and willing to work, Lewis said that the federal government had assumed the obligation of giving jobs to the its acreedy unemployed, but thatfailed to tions since that time had carry out this responsibility. The Presidents relief and re- covery program, Lewis added, substantially meets the request we have made. Demands Hood Congress 0. Is Active Lewis statement to the Appropriations committee came as the demand for passage of the bill continued to flood the capital. C. I. 0. union affiliates, local councils and progressive groups let their Income Levels Too Low NATIONAL C. I. O. DIRECTOR congressional representatives know AULTMAN be must I cannot express in strong that spending government L. SPEAKS IN TWO S. MEETINGS hastened while industrial activity enough terms how inadequate CASH GROCERY remains at its present low levels. these levels of income are to pro Lewis advised the appropriations vide livelihood for American fami a good thing for industry. Was. 6169 450 So. 9th West (Continued from Page 1) can condition Such relief a the lies. that only committee program in the propaganda ranks, and Automobile Industry four-poi-n bring a deep sense of shame to re spread by the Tory press. Similar success was made in or- should be based on a sponsible citizens. I am convinced that if a ref- ganizing the automobile industry, program: should be All workers 1. employerendum were taken today of the Mr. Brophy said. Attempts of the Best Wishes to Labor. Call A. F. L. membership, they wouk A. F. L. had failed, but when the LABOR BOARD WINS Mr. Brophy differences, ploye the COURT HIGH S. U. puroverwhelmingly approve an organizing said. C. I. O. initiated H. A. HIGHAM poses and the plan of organization drive, this industry became well orWhere employers have acceptof the C. I. O. Relations Labor National The two-thirihe of ganized. Today ed the Wagner Act, peaceful rela Whenever the executive council auto won two victories in workers are under union tions with Plumbing Co. labor have been the rule Board Monday of the A. F. L. is willing to recogdecisions. court The supreme and hours contract. nize the Tight of workers in cer wagesone outside is the Ford Motor Strife developed only when em The court decisions were preComplete Service in only the principles of sented opposed ployers tain fields, especially in the mass company, in a test challenge of Labor is and headway being the Act in defiance of the law anc Plumbing, Heating, Gas, Air Board power filed by the Mackay production industries, to establish made even there, and it will be as defined by con Radio policy public Conditioning, Etc. industrial unions, then there can and Telegraph company, and a matter of time when Henry gress. be accord between the two labor only action in a mandamus brought by Ford will recognize the Automobile n Labor's League Let us Estimate Your Job in connection Board with its the groups, and both can unite under Workers' Union. men Mr. Brophy urged all union Mr. Brophy conone banner, Steel the case Republic against Absurd Propaganda and women, and other progressive tended. 663 8th Ave. Was. 6175 corporation. the Labors to citizens support The propaganda of the Tory Recounts Results In case Third the the Republic League for the sake circuit court of To prove his claim that the in- press and some of the A. F. L. appeals is directed and progressive legof C. I. 0. the that democracy eaders charging dustrial form of labor union is show cause by next Monday why to most practical he recounted the s communistic is absurd, iBrophy islation. an injunction prohibiting further It is necessary for labor to ex- Labor declared. The eight heads of the success of the C. I. O. in organizBoard action should not be CAREFUL ercise both its arms the economic The Board seeks to withvacated. ing the steel workers, automobile, eight original international unions and the trade arm were union, C. O. I. through the formed who rubber, glass, textiles, clothing, and draw its Republic case from the MOVING d the political arm through the Laother mass production industries. among the ablest and most courts the purpose of taking for bors F. League. leaders among the A. lie said that after 50 years of additional procedural steps. Through the Labors effort to organize the steel indus- L. affiliates. Their unions were Efficient Service In the Mackay case the supreme and League a unity of progrestry under the A. F. L. craft union among the most progressive sive forces in government can be Call Wasatch 1562 plan, it failed. Under the C. I. 0. successful ones in the Federation. has The obtained. of some proven League of In Labor Welcome, were workers steel the representatives fact, organplan Night Phone Was. 7095 101 UNION HOUSE hese unions were original A. F. L. its worth and it should be supportized within two years so that toed all those citizens who believe Household Goods Packed and day more than 500,000 workers are affiliates more than 50 years ago. in by both in industry and GUY HERICS comes democracy, Most of this barpropaganda working under a collective Shipped at Reduced Freight government. gaining agreement of C. I. O. :rom sources which desire disunity SANDWICH SHOP Autocracies and Rates. Local Moving Carefuland dictatorships union, and these workers enjoy and labor strife, but the rank chance where no the Main have labor at 21st South fall not will members better wages, shorter hours, and ile of, union ly and Economically Handled. or the lies being spread through- movement uses its political arm Famous For Our economic freedom. Even the emInsured Carrier. Estimates and is committed to democracy, Steak Special ployers in the steel industry now out the land about the C. I. 0. of the Given No Obligation speaker concluded. The rank and file membership admit that union organization was SANDWICHES secM. E. Senator State it? Royle, L. in of is not favor he A. F. Union Made Beer on Tap of the Utah State IndusThe only Union Drive-I- n ligh leadership in its tactics in retaryUnion Mollemp Moving & over labor-hatin- g trial Council, and presided agencies joining Best Wishes to Labor Stand in Salt Lake Storage Co. persons in attacks on important both meetings. He introduced W. Heric, Proprietor Guy C. James I. 0. Morgan, regional pieces of legislation beneficial to 155 South West Temple Member Musicians Local 104 director, who in turn introduced abor, he said. HARRIS The C. I. 0. is consistently Mr. Brophy. the local unions jacking a relief program that will ofDelegations from Jersey Farms Dairy Mill and Smelter the Mine, provide jobs with decent wages for Workers the state throughout Americas unemployed. Dacro Protected Creamline The C. I. 0. has worked in the heard the speaker. Products A delegation of coal miners and interest of labor unity, while the wives from Carbon county their reA. F. L. leadership has acted Call Hyland 683 was headed widen by A. M. Peterson of to the In split peatedly For Further Information labor. The A. F. L. execu- Castlegate, president of the State tive council has chartered company Industrial Union Council; Frank 1315 S. State Order Today unions in order to bring disunity in Bonacci, C. I. 0. field representaand certain sections of the country, tive for Utah, and Albert Roberts, UNION Printing district vice president of the UnitMr. Brophy asserted. ed Mine Workers of America. Labor Relations Board Mr. Brophy, who was accomMr. Brophy lauded President Best Wishes to Labor panied by Mrs. Brophy, left Salt Roosevelt and liberal legislators. Lake for Washington, D. C., City Resolve to own your own He predicted that the wages and Sunday morning. hours bill will become a law in Home this session of congress. The National Labor Relations WELCOME, LABOR McConaugliy Act is a good piece of legislation, INCORPORATED BIG SALE he said. We have fought the efReal Estate Co. forts of' all big Tory industrialists, Throughout the Store Members of the Multiple and its Tory press propaganda, Everything Included who were bent on repeal, emasculaListing Bureau. Also Agents BUY NOW AND SAVE tion or sabotage of the act. 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