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Show Friday, January 7, 1938 THE VOICE OF SHARON PICKED UP IN PASSING the next war literally be "in the American Labor On The March air? Smoke has no defense say the coal experts who declare that the black stuff costs United States coal buvers $300,000,000 a year, of which $140,000,000 is in spoiled merchandise and in cleaning buildings. Smoke s a demon Page Four and others also acted with similar brought to the A. F. of L. ranks. Tf not done, energy and success. they further argued, In the skilled trades, many' of then the opportunity would be the craft unions extended their definitely lost for years to come. The issue was argued up and organizations, but in the masq production industries whore no down the convention floor far lnt Editors Note: The following? is the 2nd. of a series At least 30,000 military airof on articles Labor in America written specithe situation planes are now ready tor war News for the Varro C. Jones of 263 West Third North adequate industrial unions existduty the world over, according to ally by an international report on prewho from Pittsburgh where ed, the opportunity of 1933 and returned street, Provo, recently 1934 was fumbled. paredness of various countries. he Steel Mr. Jones writes attended the Workers convention. This is the f,fth year since the Not that the workers in these rearmament derby started anew that menaces your health, they as he sees the American Labor Movement today. The News industries did not want union orafter the world war, the first evi- add. as they point to the pall of is a medium of expression for all phases of American life, ganization and the benefits which dent intensive preparation start-in- smoke which helps to destroy it could bring, for they flocked and does not necessarily hold the views of its correspc" dents. to In 1933. United States re- your property, to rob your pocket the A. F. of L., and beat upon In as the Ameri- - ployed, the night. But the big- - Aaft leaders, whose votes dominated the convention, finally had their way. The program of industrial unionism was defeated. (Next issue: "The C. I. O. is born). b ports 20,000 airplanes, of which are war planes; Germany has an air force of SO, 000 to 110,000, hut the number of planes is subject to dispute; Italy Is said to have more than 6,000 planes; Britain Is rated with 5, 000 planes ready for war duty; France is supposed to have 4,000 planes; but Russia is the enigma, her war planes and her civil craft being adjunct to each other, and the total variously estimated at from 4,500 to 10,000, with 150,-00- 0 pilots ready for service. Will four-fift- h Cktober, 1935, cloud dirty your can Federation of Labor held its book, soil your complexion, your windows, and clothes. General rules for firing for smokeless combustion are given as follows by the technicians: Be sure your fire box, chimney, and flues of your heating plant are free of soot and air tight; when feeding the fire, bank coal to one side or at the back of the combustion chamber; never heap coal on top of live coals; shake ashes regularly and keep drafts open after feeding until first coal Is burned. 3 Star SLIP COVER SPECIAL BRIGHTEN UP YOUR LIVING YOUR NEW FURNITURE with SMART, CRISP SLIP COVERS! ROOM-PROT- ( ECT SPECIAL LABOR OFFER! January and February only! DIXON-TAYLOR-RUSSE- LL its doors, but the A. F. of L. did not furnish them with the form of annual convention at Atlantic City, It found itself confronted with the dominating problem the issue of organizing the tens of millions of unorganized workers In America's great industries. From a total of nearly 40.000,-00- 0 wage earners. less than 3,500-00- 0 were represented by the Unions whose delegates gathered at Atlantic City. Since its formation, the A. F. of L. has aspired to speak for all American labor. Its craft unions had achieved a fair measure of success in the building trades, in printing, and in many of the more skilled lines of work. Industrial unions, like the United Mine Workers, the International Lady Garment Workers, the Amalgamated Clothing Vorkers, and several more had also been successful in organizing great numbers in their respective industries. But many Industries were almost completely .unorganized, Buch as steel,, rubber, automobiles. From the steel industry alone some 9,000 workers were represented at Atlantic City in 1935. Automobile, rubber, textile, radio, and electric manufacturing, and many of the other biggest Indus- tries of the land had hardly been dented by the A. F. of L. unions claiming Jurisdiction Ip their organization unions had paper jurisdictional claims to tha workers of Industries, and would not relinquish these claims to allow workers to organize industrially. The most the A. F. of L. would do in response to the overwhelming demand for industrial unionism was to set up so called federal unions as a makeshift. FEDERAL UNIONS These federal unions permitted the workers in a given plant to organize in one union for that plant, but they were no substitute for an Industrial union banding all the workers in all the plants of a given industry. Furthermore the craft unions were given a definite understanding that they might raid these federal unions whenever they claimed jurisdiction. By 1935 the failure of the A. F. of L, to organize the mass production industries through craft and federal unions had become clearly evident. Union membership which run to 100,000 in the steel industry had dwindled to less than 10,000. The same story was true In automobile, rubber, textile, and other mass production! industries. Though fumbled, the opportunity was not entirely lost. Progressive union leaders argued at Atlantic City for the A. F. of L. to revise its laws to permit industrial unionism, and to launch a vigorous campaign to unionize If industries. this were done, they arrued, millions of workers could yet be F. of L. had Though the made many efforts to organize these industries,! they had failed, due to concentrated financial power controlling these fields, and due to lack of adequate rup-po- rt for such attempts, and also due to absence of aggressive fcnd intelligent leadership, and finally due to the policy of organizing just craftsmen, Instead of taking the whole plant and industry into one union. At the Atlantic City convention the snot light was thrown on this last phase of unionising effort, the leaders of industrial unions charging the A. F. of L. outright with failure to foster industrial organization. Many of the farsighted craft leaders agreed, to the argument that the Industrial form of organization which enrolls in one union all orkers in a given industry regardless of craft or occupation, is better to modern industrial development. Men should be organized they argued on a natural line of division, rather than along the particular opera- A. ! Vi A;S u i .. t pyfG0vO V I olf ' Hansens 297 North t Japan is planning a people's health insurance law, social welfare bills, relief to agriculture, and government control of electric power industry, all of which shows how really modern Japan is. Soon she will have enough problems of her own to leave off aggressive warfare, maybe. C. Sylvan Stephens of Provo, graduating with his M. S. degree under Dr. T. L. Martin at the end of the autumn quarter, has been selected by the Parke, Davis and Co. of Detroit for a position in He their medical department. left Wednesday for Kansas City, enroute to Detroit, where he will take a short training course before actual employment. Bench Canal Stockholders from Pose One) . ICortinu-- d wide-sprea- water to do so. "It Beems not quite the moral thing to do to compel rion who now have enough water to take additional water through a subscription in this project by the declared Mr. Ray. l company, doubt If the company has the legal right to mortgage water rights to be purchased without the consent of all the water users. Homes Not Mortgaged. Following Mr. Rays address numerous questions were .asked, Does the including this one: mortgage which 'the canal company will require to give to secure payment of a subscription II 71 North 5 West f 11 I Phone 397 Met Hayward o o aaf XT AT O C WBtl MW 71 East if T I Flour 51.0V 20c Oxydol ly. 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"Stockholders becoming members of mutual water companies know when they take stock in these companies that there are burdens which go with the benefits. They liive the benefits which come froiivrunnlng larger streams togetherHa-'cu- t down evaporation and seepage and also to spread the cost of building and operating and maintenance ove a large number of persons so that the burdens are very light "It is not any more Inequitable for a majority to control in a company of this kind man it is in a school district or town where th minority are required to neip pay for school buildings and twon improvements, although they actually dont need them and vote against such propositions. A man without any children may not have any use for a school building, hut if the majority says so, be is compelled to help pay for it and his property is under the same bond lien as any property in the district. yv WE GUARANTEE TO SAVE MONEY IF YOU BUY AT y STORE. y y y Center inflows. This work wi)l be carried on throughout the period of j4 ::::::::::: mm:!::::.". Food Market First West PICKED UP IN PASSING and needed Scores of craft fields. V they asked cover the home and personal property of the stockholders of the canal company- Mr. Ray's answer wos; "No. not unless the stockholder haB hss home in the canal. The answer seemed to have an important effect upon doubtful stockholders, as it proved false statemi qts premany viously made that the subserffst'on contract and the mortgage secihs ing It provided that the individual home and other prostockholder's perty was- also covered by the mortgage. Mr Watkins Replies "The United States, through the Bureau of Reclamation, declared Mr. Watkins in reply to Mr. Ray's statement, "undertakes rfclama-tio- n projects to help the pbeple, not to harm them. It has already made ample provision to measure all the water which flows into the reservoir from all sources, including the return flow and seepage which comes into the stream along the reservoir site. This same problem of how much water belongs to the olu rights In the river and which must be released from the reservoir at all times is not a new one, con-- t tinued Mr. Watkins. It occurs on all reclamation projects where are built on old reservoirs streams, the waters of which have been appropriated by prior users. 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