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Show . T ixirsssn -- '' v , A'VM i - v CJ2IT tu. rfv EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER VOL. IV; NO. 19. CHECK-O- FF ,.'l Review o Labor Activities i JUU ' U' IX 10 UTAH COAL 4,000,000 Jobs by December 15 HS Price ; 5 Cents Per Copy STARTS TUESDAY ' News and Comment Planned by President Roosevelt 17, 193A By M. I. T. HlffiB Union Officials Visit 3000 Miners Within 48 Hours Happy Family What? The employers have Local Union Secretaries Directed by Secretary Morgan and Work to Finance Provided Funds Projects been open shop $400,000,000 of Federal about their happy bragging International Organizer Fontecchio In Activities for Week and Prevailing Wage Throughout the Nation of employes. family Beginning Work Under Signed Agreement on Time-St- ate Plan Will Remove from Ten to Fifteen Rate Will Be Applied They have made claims tha; Federation Rushes Necessary Printed Matter Into Price, Million Persons from Relief Rolls. they do not desire outside union workers. their the Center of Activities. agitators among desired to run their own They none Mr. Hopkins declared that President Roose Washington. business to suit' themselves. This velt announced a broad expansion of the work will be done by con- desire to run their own business PLEASE NOTE The Utah Labor New will print the workof the Federal relief program to tract. naturaliy meant that they woulc According to the plans, city anc pay a3 low wages as was possible, agreement signed by Utah Coal Producers and the United provide jobs for 4,000,000 uneming Mine Workers of America in full next week. The Labor News Now into these open shop parployed now on public relief rolls. county engineers will be asked to reaches every member of the union. This issue, no doubt, will Work will be provided on minor submit at once lists of projects adises serpents are stalking in the be preserved by the membership for future reference and projects throughout the Nation, ex- which can be undertaken with the form of labor agitators, who perleast and thus each member of the union will be familiar with study, delay. to suade union. a into the county. every employes join tending all of the provisions of the agreement under which he is working. It was estimated- that jobs will The projects planned cover a This certainly is a villianous probe created for 2,000,000 by Novem- wide range and will be of such ceeding. It does not tally with the 2,000,-00- 0 nature that men can be employee additional claims of happy families of open an and for ber 16, United in the in December. of middle locality every the Utah coal mines started working shop employes. by President M. I. Thompson of the It is these Open shop employ- under union agreements Tuesday Utah State Federation To achieve this object, President States. of Labor The work will include park and ers who desire to see the NRA Roosevelt announced the creation November 14, as a result and A. M. Scott, vice chairman of morning, of the Civil Works Administration, playground improvements, sanita- failure. Thats natural. of signed contracts be- the federation organizing commitIf they were so convinced of the tween the working with Harry L. Hopkins, Relief Ad- tion, highways, streets and roads: of the tee, made a rush drive from Salt representatives general public .im justice of open shop why are United Mine Workers of America Lake to Price ministrator, as Director. The proj- 0 waterworks, work Saturday afternoon on utilities anc they unwilling to lay their cases at and the Utah Coal Producers. provements, ects will be financed by $400,000,-00with necessary printed forms- to In order to start the check-of- f from the Federal Public Works public structures, handling of relief the front door .of the mediation take care of the immediate needs Administration and by funds ad- supplies, and professional and cler- boards, instead of using the back and other provisions of the work- for starting the check-of- f at each J door? vanced by local governments and ical employment. ing agreement on time the head- mine in the district. 7A work Under of Section come the Adwill Under the plan NIRA, quarters of the United Mine Workthe Federal Emergency Relief Cole Recovers to combat grasshoppers in these the workers have the right to or ers at Price was the busiest place ministration. George Cole, president of Disganize and bargain collectively. in Utah. In announcing the plan, the areas where this pest has become trict who ill at L. D. S. 22, was a menace, and the elimination of This the open shop employers are James Morgan, of Dis- hospital at the time of President said: Secretary signing the1 and is it the core of their trict 22, and General Organizer working from rats and mosquitoes. resisting, It is designed to remove Those hhs agreement, recovered, ; include will controversy. The playground work Nicholas Fontecchio were busy and left Salt Lake for Price relief all employable persons. TuesThe News Utah believes Labor of swimming pools, final instructions to the of- day to remain in the coal hired will benefit by an immediate construction giving mining that Section 7A is the foundation ficials of the several local unions, area of Utah increase in income 'over their for- golf courses and other recreational to direct the activistone of anc the NRA enthe program, and who to rushed the throughout various camps ties during the coming week. facilities, mer relief allowances. to secure the signatures of some tire program public works that can upon it rests the chances for sue Week With full cooperation of the uncess of the program. This is be- 3,000 members to the orders for miners and coal producers Utah The President laid down the be started immediately will be un cause Section ion 7A is designed to the check-off for as dertaken. week the in coal the of provided production is expected to adprinciple Mr. Hopkins declared that none bring about a better balance in the aggipent, between , the.. union, and vance- - with of the jobless employed on the all greater results than the1 national economy? fit " the producers. of: the work 'undertaken will be lamentable ever before in the history of Utah. "7" V relief projects. condition which the Heads of families will be given done by contract. He said it will he vast majority of our by people live at supervised by the local engineers or near the jobs first. It is estimated that work level. This is poverty skillfor for the 4,000,000 will remove from and the prevailing wages own hoist is its why industry by 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 persons ed, and unskilled labor will be 'paid petard. By keeping wages too in every community. from relief rolls. low, American industry has destroyed its own market. It will Living never recapture that market until it gives labor a fairer share of the A. F. of L. Business Survey Claims Fair Practice Codes Reduce profits of industry. Our sympathies, then, must lie Minimum Wages, While Employers Slash Higher-Pai- d with the job of righting the whole Unorganized Workers. national economy. Bitter as the leson is, we must Washington. President Roos- jobs and when their debts are ing establish better requirements all learn it. evelts Reemployment Agreement cleared, the new Organize, labor, organize! At a well attended meeting of in the school room and necessary will and the direction over those who come into effect. buying power teachers at the Tooele high school benefits for the pupils, said the The Quid or the Dollar? own and control industry exercised Opening of closed banks and building , Monday night M. I. speaker. the or with education is the union The teachers Illiteracy Utah State iy the Government in fair practice guarantee of bank deposits will reThompson, president codes . established under the lease further buying power. Federation of Labor, explained the cooperation of the entire organized question of the hour. led a magniffaces a choice beUtah has movement labor the today of Act have four and Recovery NRA Wage Reductions objectives put program million jobless men and women On the subject of wages under American Federation of Teachers, icent fight against all sorts of tween the child and the dollar. It cannot afford not to put the ack to work, according to the the fair practice affiliated with the American Fed- propaganda in the schools. It has child codes, the survey first. Any other policy de- monthly survey of business issued says: of thought, fought for freedom eration of Labor. The first and y the American Federation of La-io- r. The speaker pointed out that academic freedom. It has done a stroys progress. NRA wages have not brought test of ast statesman is his the service. of Teachmighty, public the American- Federation higher living standards to the avertoward education. If he Teachers affiliation with the One million seven hundred thous- age worker. A 6 ers is affilated with the American cent increase Federation of Labor because it bona fide trade union movement cannot meet that test he has no and of the four million went on the in wages has beenpereaten up in an feels that in this way it can bet- particularly fits the teachers for place in public life. Only as the jayrolls during July and Septem-)e- r, 8.5 per cent increase in costs 8 per cent the and he finds his real living ter serve the public. The affilia- public service. The labor move- schools move forward today can by increasing inmonthly the in its government, industry and s. tion with the labor movement ment is strictly of the Nations come power mying in below September actually By it and standard of living move forward therefore makes the teaching pro- political activities. . March by 2.3 per cent. tomorrow. the fession more professional. productive citizenry Boost Prices through it Some codes have reduced miniEducation costs more now than The organized teachers unions of a community is afforded a On the other hand, the survey mum wage rates below those achave done more than any other edu- means of working collectively for it did in pioneer days because declares manufacturers, merchants tually in force in the industry, as schools are better and more chil- and others who cational organization in this coun- the common good. Teachers, determine in prices silk; in other cases, employers dren attend them for longer peri- have boosted the cost of on Page 3) so have reduced their try in fighting child labor, in help living ods. higher paid drastically that NRA wages have workers to raise the lowpaid group. A majority of parents now de- not brought higher living standards Thus better paid workers where sire their children to have the ad- to the worker. average there were no unions have lost unof which vantages high school, The increase in employment, the der codes, while the minimum costs more than the elementary Other And yet our schools are survey says, was brought about group has made progress. school. Set-u- p work time by five benefits are more general. Hours run so economically that they give by shortening hours per week through voluntary are shorter, men are going back your child books, classroom, equipagreements and raising wages to work. ment, a playground and a days in- cents per hour. The worker knows, however, The daily papers of Salt Lake new to readers of the Labor Ne.ws. struction under a Labor for records in is another been There Department have government that the week, of the ball teacher for a golf wage and hour scales are riot during past price show and in in Utah watered average industry generally the facts about for wages must be adprogress of or cost of vestigation a box the permanent; publishing candy. of the when it is made public it is apt to stock and In proportion to the magnitude hours shortened from 43 to 38 a justed upward as prices rise, hours Utah Power and Light Co. This cause an earthquake. of its helpfulness the number of week, average earnings raised from downward as machinery shortens We believe many of the work time. was in evidence presented at the children, the i umber, of hours, the 49.3 to 51.5 cents per hour. Workinduers' total over and citizens best buying manippower utilities for care the before the political of public activities, variety heaping CAUSE FOR REJOICING commission by the U. S. army ulators will be revealed in the man- each individual child, the; prepara- strys product has increased 20.5 per Bob Hesketh, Secretary of the when they asked for lower rates at ipulations of the power trust and tion necessary for teaching, the cent. . . other vested interests when the high responsibility the school is Unemployment was still de- Hotel and Restaurant Employes Fort Douglas. creasing in October, according to International Union, feels good The readers of the Utah Labor findings of the investigators are relatively inexpensive. Let us join hands to give our trade union figures, which showed over the fact that he has issued 58 News are familiar with these facts. published. The Labor News published them young people the best possible 21.9 per cent of the membership new charters in the last 58 days Please! the when Taxi, more . than a year ago preparation for life. .Let us keep out of work in early October, com- and he takes occasion to thank the Labor Councils, the Labor Press is it? The child first. world made its the isnt pared to 22.5 in September. commission round, Federal Trade Retail earners concern and A education the A. F. of L. for the splendid over to states buying Senator be, wage and by yes. Supposed investigations public, Well, if I wanted to go east I measures its interests in its own has increased, and trade is well support given his organization. Norris had them inserted in the above the early part of the year, could eventually get there by go- future. Congressional Record. movement is Granite School district is seeklabor The interested I? and couldnt what although higher prices brought a The army investigation ing west, our welfare drivin in the of decline schools and taxi are a what have September. you, the daily papers ing a federal loan of $626,500 for published Say, on When are their sure of its workers not (Continued 4) are Page building program. er? few the days past during 30-Ho- ur - . , - 30-Ho- ur . 30-ho- ur 1 , 4,000,000 Get Jobs; Price Boosts Prevent Higher Standards Tooele Teachers Hear Educators, Union Explained Na-;ion- al 1 at-;itu- de - non-partis- an em-iloye- there-continu- Salt Lake Citizens Are Learning About Power , ed , well-prepar- over-capitalizati- on so-call- ed ed |