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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JULY 1, 1938. Page 7 Without Fail Read President Roosevelts Fireside Chat in This Issue of the Utah Labor News. Save It for Future Reference United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing & Allied Workers, a C. I. FORWARD MARCH 0. international union, and the United Fishermens Union, has just been granted a provisional C. I. 0. (Continued from page 6) charter, pending the formation of the near future, at which the workers will be assured of a free choice. an international union in the fishAbout 80 per cent of the world ing industry later. supply of carbon black, used in making tires, radios, phonograph NEWS AND COMMENT records, telephones, printers ink, rubber goods of all kinds and in highway construction, is manufac(Continued from Page 1) tured in Texas. the prosperity of every industry The company has its headquarand of every community depends ters in Charleston, W. Va. absolutely on the purchasing power of the people. Wage cuts mean C. I. O. ASKS ALL MEMBERS want and suffering for the workers, TO AID WESTERN UNION but they mean distress for farmORGANIZATION DRIVE ers and all other groups and none will suffer more than the railroads, All merchants, theaters, professional WASHINGTON (UNS) affiliates of the C. I. 0. have been men and eating houses. called upon to lend aid in organIs it any wonder that there have izing the exploited workers of the been protests about those wage Western Union company. cuts in the metal mines and Fointing out that the current smelters? campaign to organize the employes Is it any wonder that during the of Western Union is of extreme few weeks the President of past importance to the entire labor the United States, and many farmovement, John Brophy, C. I. 0. members of congress, have sighted director, asked that all possible earnestly protested against the be lent assistance the American Communications Assn., C. I. 0. by proposed raid on the? pay envelopes of railroad workers existing unions. g They appreciate that The nature of the communicais national a calamity, only tions industry, with small offices scattered at almost every point in a little less appalling than war. The surprising thing is that all the U. S. makes it imperative that business and professional men do the message of the ACA be connot this truth. recognize veyed to telegraph workers through Instead of cutting wages, all the the machinery of the C. I. 0. and its affiliated unions, Brophy said. energies of the nation should be concentrated on the problem of increasing the purchasing power of C. I. O. UNION SIGNS PACTS the people. WITH 17 COFFEE FIRMS Even as far back as 1929, when America was supposed to be rollSAN FRANCISCO, Calif., ing in prosperity, it would have (UNS) Renewal of agreements with 17 coffee firms, including an required an increase of 75 per cent addition gain for the union of two in the production of consumers weeks paid vacation, not in the goods and sendees in order to give family in the nation a standprevious contracts, is announced by every ard of living defined as reasonthe Warehousemens union of the International Longshoremen and able by the Federal Bureau of Home Economics. Warehousemen, C. I. O. The demand was there. All that Three of the last companies to was needed was purchasing 'power. sign did so after a threat of a But we didnt increase purchasing strike to be called on power in 1929. Instead, we increasnotice. ed the profits of the very rich. Stuart Chase tells us, and he cites SALMON PACKERS SIGN the Brookings Institution as auTWO C. I. O. UNION PACTS thority, that of the $15,000,000,000 FOR WORK IN ALASKA of savings in 1929, $13,000,000,000 accrued to 10 per cent of the popuSAN FRANCISCO, Calif. lation. Sixty thousand families at in both the top saved as much as 25,000,-00- 0 (UNS) Salmon workers the canning and fishing industry families at the bottom. who have sailed for Alaska this Thats what brought on the deseason will have the burdens of pression. That is why the deprestheir hard jobs lightened by union sion is still with us. We will not conditions. They will work under get rid of the depression until we contracts signed between the salm- get rid of the crazy notion that the on packers and two C. I. 0. way to restore prosperity is to cut unions, the Alaska Cannery Work- wages. ers and the United Fishermens Union of the Pacific. The ACW is affiliated with the LABOR BOARD RECORD UPHELD BY COURTS LABOR ON ITS wage-cuttin- 24-hou- rs Yes! Trimble Hats Have the Union Label SKIDS HAT SHOP 250 South Main That the record of the National Labor Relations Board before the courts has been unusually successful, prior to the recent decisions in the Ford and Inland cases, is revealed in a summary of the boards work published this week. The summary is contained in a BEST WISHES TO LABOR MODERN ELECTRIC COMPANY Fixtures and Supplies 37 Richards St. WHOLESALE I pamphlet entitled Labor on New Fronts, prepared by Robert R. R. Brooks, assistant professor of economics at Williams college, and published by the Public Affairs committee, 8 West 40th street, New York City. During the first full fiscal year of the labor boards operation, Mr. Brooks reports, there were 19 appeals to circuit courts. In only three cases was the board denied enforcement of its orders, and in no case were the boards findings of fact reversed because of constitutional or other defects in the boards procedure. Of 97 appeals for injunctions against the board in Federal district courts, 96 have been settled in favor of the board and one is pending. In considering the arguments for and against amendment of the Wagner Act, Mr. Brooks lists a number of reasons why the incorporation of unions might prove socially undesirable, namely: 1. American trade unions are quite as impressed with the sacredness of a contract as is American business. During the first full year of the Steel Workers Organizing committee, for example, no violations of contract by the union have been reported among the hundreds signed. . . . 2. The officers and members of unions may be sued under the present law for illegal violations. 3. The use of the injunction during the last four years has proved to be a far more effective method of preventing breach of contract, as well as of destroying unions, than the damage suit. 4. Employers associations are not themselves incorporated. 5. The mere incorporation of unions does not protect them from the imposition of racketeering from outside, or the development of this tendency from within. 6. There are several dangers to a free labor movement in compulsory incorporation: (a) an employer may introduce a spy into a union to commit illegal acts for which the union, incorporated, would be responsible; (b) a corporation is subject to state visitation and inWhere sentiment spection. visitaagainst unions is strong, tion and inspection might become a simple and effective means of relaying to employers the membership list of the union. The Wagner Act is seen as an important instrument for industrial peace. Although organizing strikes may be more frequent than previously, it is pointed out that struggles for union recognition now take place at the ballot box or are settled by action of the NLRB which otherwise would have had to be fought on the picket line. The existence of the board also serves to reduce the number of strikes for causes other than recognition to the extent that it encourages employers to try peaceful bargaining Jbef ore permitting a strike. During the first two and a quarter years of the boards activities, it averted 489 threatened strikes. The pamphlet also contains a survey of the growth of the C. I. O., and the increasing tendency for labor to resort to political action. Labor on New Fronts is the in a series of factual twenty-firs- t ten-cecurrent pamphlets on problems published by the Public Affairs Committee of New York cup of coffee no matter how good we do not see. The longer we conthe coffees radio program nor centrate our memories on any given experience and related or assohow expert the cook. ciated experiences, things' and the to only way get Furthermore, at the good water is to let the stale events, the clearer do we perceive water run off so the reserve of the special incident we wish to review. sparkling water can come along. It is also true that by the reflectThis simple fact suggests someed light of memory, (much as the thing regarding your energies which you have probably observed moon lights up an otherwise dark but which we are all prone to for- night by the light it reflects from get or disregard. You have doubt- the sun) may we take a look into less often gotten up in the morning the future. All visualization or imagining of feeling punk. You had a good coffee experiences we hope to have hapbreakfast thinking the would bring you to life. But it did pen to us must depend to a large not. You thought you just could degree upon light reflected from pot get going. You turned a little past experience, lived, or read will power and made a start. Pres- about, or observed. The future we visualize may be ently you found the stale feeling and now life off a combination of past personal exworking began tingling through your veins, nerves perience, past things read about, or and muscles. The reserve PEP was past observed experience. there. It just could not get through of a Nor is this advance-livin- g until stale energies had been future we picture for ourselves limworked off. ited to sight impressions. If you do work requiring creaThe young man who sees himself tive thought or concentration you as being the head chef in a hotel have probably knowm something where he once worked as a helper to happen mentally. When the (Continued on page 8) mind lags, a five or 10 minute period of relaxation, in a quick nap will often restore you as good as new. Many have, of course, found that a cup of good coffee will whip up dormant powers. However, you may have also discovered that a change in mental work or merely sticking at what you are doing will use up your stale mental energies and new sparkling power will thus get through. Presently you feel a new zest in living) and tingling, scintillating ideas begin to pour. Theres something in it, as the monkey said, sticking his hand into the coconut. SEEING AHEAD BY REFLECTED LIGHT John Edwin Price, editorial writer for the Maywood Syndicate, says that memory throws a searchlight into the past and makes plain former experiences which ordinarily WELCOME, AND BEST WISHES TO UTAH LABOR E. E. KELLER, OPT. D. Practice Limited to Optometry Wasatch 4395 South Main 71 BEST WISHES TO UTAH LABOR SPECIFY ALEMITE The Alemite Company of Utah, Inc. Phone Was 4789 Salt Lake City, Utah Pierpont Ave. Distributors of ALEMITE MOTOR OIL ALEMITE LUBRICANTS The Triple Safe Way of Lubricating 331 nt City. 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