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Show r Ur- 'I'P .Published by (Vol. 1? , s . tKe Salt Lake Federation of Labor in the Interest of the Men. and Women Wlio Work for Wages. ' . Salt Lake City, Utah, Mar. 0 Price 5 Cents 24, 1917 v: No37 C0MPAW CHIAKGE WKKMEM iS PEM CENl FMTEMEST FM 1JM(G THEM 11 MONEY UTAH- (CdDPPEE - v, Company. Evades and Violates Laws at Will, Its Only Guide Being" Profits to the Company; Human Be- -, ings Are Cheap; Dollars and Cents the Only Things That Count. In the Psue of March 10, 1917, we (old the story. of a young man who had Worked two months In the- Utah Cop- f per mill - at Garfield, Utah, which served to illustrate the miserable conditions of the labor employed there men working from nine to twenty-fou- r athours a day, in a ' mosphere, their clothes soaking wet from the water constantly spraying throughout the mill through the overloading and improper handling of the "We touched briefly upon ''laundries. the fact that workmen get no pay until forty-fiv- e days after beginning work, how fifteen days pay is always held back, and how they are comof their pelled, if they desire own money before the expiration of the long waiting period established by the company, to pay interest on their earnings at the rate of 4 3 per cent & 'month, besides giving an absolute pow'er of attorney to the Utah Copper company through. one. of its subsidia- ., -- - - fume-poison- ed quired to fill out and sign a note similar to the following: fied. ' , -- . $G1 30, ray Roll No. 613. B COMPANY GARFIELD WRING Garfield, Utah, January 31, 1917. THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSETH: That in consideration of sixty-on- e and Dollars, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, I hereby assign, transfer and feet over to the Garfield Banking Company, all claims 30-1- and demands which I now have for the month of January, or which at any time between the date hereof and the 14th day of the next succeeding month I may liave against the UTAH COPTER COMPANY, for nil sums of money due, or to become due to me, for services in the month alove speci- 00 I hereby appoint and constitute the Garfield Banking Company, or its assign, , my attorney irrevocably, to do and perform all acts, matters and things In the premises, in like manner and to all intents and purposes as I could do if personally present. Witness G. P. , (Signed) Richard Roe, . By S. Wright. .191.. Payable The State Industrial Board : - Arthur, Utah. Jan. To G It FIELD TRADING COMPANY; Tiie lKarer, Richard Roe,' has due him tlii date from the UTAH COPTER COMPANY for the month of Jan. 1917, the stun of One hundred 0 DOLLARS ($108.50). $lght an.l PATE OF EMPLOYMENT, January 31, 1917. -- 50-10- 2, 1917. . UTAH COPPER COMPANY. By Chas. Howard. Richard Roe, . ' i (Identification Signature.) , NOT OVER ONE HUNDRED TEN 'DOLLARS $110$ This slip entitles him to credit for the amount stated as being 'due him, deductionhas been made for all a-ft- debts he is owing in the community board, rent, hospital fees. Insurance the means premium, etc. Slftee-lin of spending money that particular town- - are in the hands off the Utah Copper company, it is easy for them to see that a. workman does not draw moe than he ha3 free from all indebtedness in the town, no matter how immediately pressing any other obligations might be. If the workman doc3 not desire credit at the store,, but needs a little real cash, he can get a limLed amount, subject to the same rules that apply , to .credit, but Is re- l 2-- , r Corporation sho-f- urs. of labon 'nines, 'rufllVafv Smelters jV-'- - laden atmosphere clothes' faking wet all the time; that the Jaws against! usury are shamefully' J violated ' by'' ' charging interest at theraie per cent per, annum on money that-o- f right does not belong to the com- -, pany, but is the rightful pioperty of. the workman who Is compelled to pay the. interest. , The Utah Copper Company' owns the townsite and all the buildings erected thereon. To the limit of the accommodations of the dwellings and . boarding houses provided, the com-;- pany requires that the 'workmen live in company houses and' pay lent to v the company. When the number of workmen employed exceeds the accommodations piovfded by the company, accommodation trains are put on so men living in Salt Lake may' work at the mill, r Recently, however the company announced that the shift train wa only on temporari- ly and that shortly 200 new cottages would be erected and the workmen would be required, to occupy them . then the shift train would be discon- tinued. Apparently there Is more money In rents than there Is profit in railroad fares.. The affairs of the workmen are of no concern to t tha What does it matter to company. them that these men may have homes in the city, which they would have to" leave, perhaps empty and without care, to go to ruin? What does it matter to them that the workman y be buying his home on the installment plan, and that his moving awdy with tho added expense of renting a company house may be the cause of the workman losing his little savings represented by' his equity ih hie partly-paid-fhome? The poor company, with net profits in excess of $50,000,000 a year, needs the money very badly'. They cannot concern themselves with such matters as the loss of a workingmans home and his life's savings. The rules of the company must be complied with, there must be no company houses empty and the business of the company trad- i (Continued on Fage12.) . Pay Roll No. 013 . is-th- T h . Office of. UTAH COPPER COMPANY "'Arthur Mill .w - $61.30. tJie laws of health, by cor.xbeilmgTiien not only to work unreasonably long hours,' but also to' work Jin a fume-- 7 45-da- . f The additional $1.30 Interest the Utah Copper Company, through its subsidiary; the Garfield Banking Company, charges the . workman for the use of his own money, earned and Justly due him for the short space of fourteen days. This figures approximately at the rate of 4 3 per cent a month, or at the ra(e of 58 per cent a year .Why this big corporation is permitted to do, by in direction what It vould not dare to do openly and directly is one of the unsolved mysteries. The laws against usury seem to be letter, easily evaded and constantly violated by the big things that own Utah. A complete story of the wrongdoings of this great, beneficent corporation would fill more white paper . We than we can af have, constant,';. ries. When a workman desires to draw down an pf his pay before the expiy ration of the waiting period, he asks the foreman for a drag slip, which th4 foreman secures ror him the next day. It shows the amount of monej due him for wrork for the period of employment since he was last paid, and is in the following form; , the'note says how-ever- 2-- . , The amount of money secured on tho above note was $60 even, although William M, Kiirrr, Prnton A. Thatchra Governor Bamberger has appointed William M. Kncrr of Salt Lake, Preston A. Thatcher of Logan and Harrison E. Jenkins of Salt Lake to admin- ister the workmens compensation law enacted by the Twelfth legislature. It is said that the commission should be composed of an insurance man, one versed In finance and the third a man In close touch with the working people. Th-- j personnel would indicate that such course was followed. Mr. Thatcher Is a banker, Mr. Jenkins "was Indorsed by the insurance federation and Bill Knerr needs no introduction to Labor News readers. This commission is considered to be second In importance only to the utilities commission. It will have charge of the state insurance fund, will com (standing), Harrison K. Jenkins. bine under its jurisdiction the coal mine Inspection, bureau of immigration, labor and statistics and the state board of labor conciliation and arbitration. While not a few states have similar law's legardlng w oik mens compensation, It still is in an experimental stage will be and Utahs comralsnioners estabwith few to get along compelled lished precedents, It Is hardly possible that the legislature has drafted a law that the test of time will give the tstfinp of per-fectl- and these commissioners dn be- sides administering its previsions must also discover Its weaknesses with a view to having other lawmakers amend It here and there with the object of sometime saving it as perfect as it be possible to make it. t t k - of'-SG-l,' " ' ta or -- i t |