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Show Slab or : Jlttos t Published every Saturday by Salt Lake Federation of La.bor. Endorse by the Utah State Federation of Labor and the Salt Lake Bailding Trades Council. Editor A. P. MOORE. ... F. E. MORRIS. .. .. Manager A. E. BOARD OF CONTROL Chairman HARVEY Barbers No. 377. F. E. MORRIS Secretary-Treasur- er Typographical' No. 0. E. ASHBRIDGE Plumbers A 115. Steamfitters Director No. 19. Director F. LEWIS Brewery Workmen No. 252. Director GEORGE W. FAHY Electrical Workers' No. 354. J. S. DIXON. Utah State Federation of Labor. .. .Cooks and Waiters No. 815 JAMES HALL.. Building TTadea Council Building Laborers' No. 79, D. JLOO a year In advance. rates on application to Advertising P.uainess Phone Subscription, Office, Labor Temple. Wasatch 1921. matter July Entered as second-clas- s at the postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 14, 1916, 1879. per capita assessments, have quite readily taken the matter up in their locals and made provision for doing their share in taking care of the expense. incidental to firmly establishing Utah Labor Newa as a publicity medium for putting before the public the workers side of industrial controversies. What has your organization done? If it has done its part, you as a member are not at fault. But those unions which for one reason or another have stood aloof from giving their moral and financial aid to the Salt Lake Federation in its endeavor to so entrench itself that It can give its affiliated bodies assistance when their cry for aid is made, will be the first to complain of the Federations impotency. Already Labor News has come to be acknowledged as a factor in the adjustment of threatened trouble, but It seems that some must first suffer from lack of preparation before seeing the necessity for preparing to meet future exigencies. The Salt Lake Federation of Labor believes that it will be in better position with the limited funds it has to do with to give you assistance Jn 444444444444 4444444444 44 Subscribers who do not receive 4 Labor News regularly will confer 4 a favor by notifying this office, 4 If your orgmization subscribes for 4 the paper for its entire member- - f it would be well to notify 4 ship, f 4 your secretary. We know of sev- - f 4 eral1 subscribers that are entitled 4 4 to the paper, having paid their f 4 subscriptions some time ago, but 4 4 the papers addressed to them are f returned by the postoffice marked f 4 "Removed, left no address. We4 have no way of delivering the pa4 per to you unless you let us know 4 4 4 your present address. 4 A post card will do the trick. 4 A Give old address as well as the 4 4 new one, and if not paid by you f what f 44- - direct to this office, state 4 organization you belong to. 4 To secretaries of unions that 4 4 4 have subscribed for Labor toNews 4 for their members, we wish im- - 4 4 press with the necessity of 4 4 furnishing us with the names and 4 4 addresses of your members. We 4 4 want all of our readers to make 4 4 the freest use of the columns of 4 4 the paper, so If you have anything 4 4 on your mind that you believe will 4 4 interest them, send it in. 4 4 Phone Wasatch 1921. 4 4 4 4 4 4 -- 4 4444444444441444444444444 UTAH LABOR NEWS AND UNION MEN On last year, Just thirty weeks ago, the Salt Lake Federation of Labor began the publication of this paper. The Federation is called upon for moral and financial aid when any of its affiliated organizations is in trouble, and these organizations receive Its support to the limit of its ability. The biggest help that can possibly be extended Is the giving of publicity to the merits of industrial controver- July Saturday , Feb. 10, 1917j UTAH LABOR NEWS Vage Four. 15 sies. The cheapest way to do this Is through the columns of the press, but inasmuch as the privately owned is the particular publicity medipress um of the interests which control it, and because those Interests are usually opposed to the bettering of the working nun and womens conditions, it seemed the logical thing to establish a paper that would present the $lde of the workers- to the public. Workingmen usually have the best of these controversies and the cause for failure is attributable to their inability to get their case before the court of public opinion. Every time a local union loses a fight with an employer, each labor union in the community is weakened Just that much. Bo when an organization wins, your union is strengthened by Just that much. The Federation has been to a considerable expense In putting out this publication and the funds came from the various unions affiliated with the Federation, many of these unions, realizing that the Federation has no way of raising funds through assessing unions In excess of their regular - the square is made a victim of the system that allows the capitalist to have the use of his energy without days. payment for forty-fiv- e Had the bill become a law it would not be necessary for the merchant to sell his goods on a basis that must take care of bad debts over so long & period. And those who eventually pay would be absolved from this additionhave al penalty monthly pay-dabuilt up. We all know that every days labor that is not paid for at the end of the day it is performed is just that much capital belonging to the workers that the capitalist is having the use of and extracting a profit. The business community suffers on account of this system and that suffering would be reduced by one-ha- lf by the enactment of such a law. If capital is going to take all the profit, it is no more than right that it also make all the investment. Every atom 'of quality possible is put into our coal. We sell it for your profit as well as ours. We are not unmindful that a satisfied customer is a mighty good friend and we want to help ourselves by first helping you. exclusive We are agents for OUR ADVERTISERS Bamberger ys Listen! -- You union men who have been constant readers since the first issue, do you appreciate that the advertisers have been a big help to supplying the times when strife overtakes your orfunds that have 'been necessary to ganization or other organizations, if keep us going? it has a medium of publicity with some Do you realize that they have been in the columns of the pastanding in the community, and is derepresented, termined to make Labor News that ' per because they want your business? medium. And also that they are thus showing If, when controversies arise, the their friendliness to the principles for fight Is lost because of the inability of which we stand ? the Federation to give enough assistDont you think that it would be a ance in the way of putting the workfair proposition to favor them with ers case before the public,- it will be your patronage if they do as well by because the union men who have you as will a withheld their support have not been The principle of rewarding your provident at a time when they were friends and forgetting your enemies is made easy by glancing over the adveramply able to do so. Just ask yourself, Mr. Union Man, tisements of Utah Labor News and what is the object of your union befixing in your mind the names of firms of Federation to Salt Lake the who longing are'helping you to maintain the Labor? newspaper that you will come to apIf it Is to be In position of having preciate when you become engaged in the Federations moral and financial strife with some employer who Is support in times when your union is more interested In adding to his bank up against it, is It not also your duty account than he is in the welfare of to give the Federation your support those who assist In making the bank when you are enjoying industrial account possible. peace, to enable It to give aid to other There are many things you can do unions which are not so favorably sitto help yourself with no very trying uated and also support its efforts to expenditure of effort on your part. be in position to insure success when One of those things Is- to . prove to clouds obscure your sky? these merchants who are friendly and You can give the Federation this want your business that you are apsupport by doing what other unions preciative of their good will. have done and are doing to strengthen Do business with your friends. You the position in the community of the should not be, too exercised over the newspaper that the Federation will lack of business yonr enemies do. use to present the workers side of inTell your merchant you saw his addustrial disputes. vertisement in Utah Labor News and he will gladly help maintain your paSEMI-MONTHLPAY. per as a medium of telling you where you can make savings in your purThe state Legislature has killed the chases and leave with you the assurpay-da- y bill. .We canance that the profit from your businot believe but that this action was on ness will not later be used to further account of lack of appreciation of the enslave you. merits of this proposed legislation. - non-advertise- r? - That Good Coal The Alan on Mcighn. High Quality Sugar You want the purest, whitest and sweetest sugar that can be produced your assurance of curing this is to ask for Table and se- Preserving Sugar AiBiLiymiLY ewg made by the Utah-Idah- o Sugar .company from beets grown in these mountain valleys, in sun-- 1 lit factories, by clean, white men. This sugar may now be had in 10, 25, 50 and 100 pound bags. A special bag may be 48-pou- nd ordered from any dealer to be sent by parcel post. Made by Sugar Co. Utah-Idah- o Y semi-month- ly Large corporationss like the railroads employ men, say, on the first of the month. The employee Is not paid until the 15th of the following month and then only up to and Including the last day of the preceding month. When we prate of the large investments of capital, isnt it Just a little inconsistent to ignore the fact that every employee of these corporations has invested in the business of that corporation his energy for from fifteen to forty-fiv- e days and invested dollars have had the use of this invested energy with no outlay? These men must live during this period, so It has been the custom for the small merchant to extend them credit. So in this way the small merchant has been compelled to Invest In supplies that have gone to feed the men whose labor makes possible the profits of the wealthowners alleged investment. Some of these, employees allow their obligations to. small merchants to rest all too lightly upon themselves, and quite often the merchant is compelled to garnishee the wages of these men. Usuatly the crook so arranges matters that he Is successful in escaping his just obligations, while the fellow on WHAT DID YOU DO? Did you give him a lift? Hes a brother of man, And bearing about all the burden he can. Did you give him a smile? He was downcast and blue. And the smile would have helped him to battle It through. Did you give him your hand? was slipping down hill. And the world, so he fancied, When You Serve Royal Bread If you are one of the many thousands of housewives who have learned the economy of using ne was using him ill. Did you give him a word? Did you show him the road, Or did you just let him go on with his load? ROYAL BREAD ItswAttl The bread that made OfjjjD mother stop bakinq k what it means to be losing the fight. When a lift Just in time might set everything right? Do you know what it means just the clasp of a hand, When a mans borne about all a man ought to stand? You'll admit that your meals always have an added zest and This perfect bread goodness. presents the most healthful food in the world in the most apeti7.ing form. what it was why the quivering lip? sob, and the Why the Order it fresh your grocer. 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