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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER W Sltaf) labor 04 V W "V 17, 1933. Economist Says NRA Has Qualities of Permanency V V Why I Am A Member of The Teachers Union New York. NRA policies have of permanency, C. T. qualities W. T. Stone, Teacher of English, De Witt Clinton High School Revere, economist for the Stock Exchange firm of Munds, Winslow I am a member of the Teachers Union because it is the only & Potter, says in a survey of ecomatter March 28 1930 at the post office Entered as second-clas- s organization in its field that stands for democracy in industry nomic and business conditions. at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. (in the broadest sense); its leadership is brave, disinterested, inone is justified in basing his If telligent, idealistic, and indefatigable; it approaches the problem judgment on recent expressions, Official publication of the Utah State Federation of Labor, and of education from the angle of social progress; it stands for exeditorial and otherwise, in the curthe International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers. perimentation as against rule of thumb, traditionalism, and narrow rent press, he would be inclined to $1.50 per annum Subscription pedantry; it is free from cheap politics, view the that there is a growing and racial or religious prejudice. Advertising rates by request. sentiment against NRA policies, ' Thousands of teachers are members of the American FederaRevere. This was unfortunate says tion of Teachers. Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, and perhaps inevitable. 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Why Not You? Opponents of the NRA seem to have forgotten that business and Ask for information and literature at the Utah Labor News of.Published weekly at 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, industry for several decades, in refice, 24 South Fourth East street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. spect to markets and prices, at least, had been attempting to do self-sam-e M. I THOMPSON Publisher thing demand-al- l. shop. The workers got nothing at I much the COMMENT NRA NEWS ed the AND codes, but they al- by L. M. THOMPSON Office Manager The retailers are perfectly in I ways had been barred from such (Continued from Page 1) sympathy with the NRA, but when cooperation by the archaic anti-- it OUR PLATFORM comes to enforcing the part of trust laws. When this cooperation the teachers, and that is why we the law that gives their employes a was made compulsory, however, a are interested in teachers unions The Utah Labor News platform; arose, Teachers organized in unions af- right to organize, that is a differ-- 1 I spirit of antagonism 1. Public ownership of natural resources and those activities we state our conviction Again ent thing. with filiated the labor movement vested with a public interest light, heat power and transportation. Organize, retail clerks, organ-- 1 I that the basic philosophy of NRA will be helpful to each other. 2. The elimination of war profits. has unquestioned qualities of per ize! Labor can cooperate with the 3. High inheritance and income taxes to be levied on the benemanency. In respect to details, we teachers in the betterment of the ficiaries of monopoly. Who Will Buy? may be warranted in looking for schools and in the stabilization o. 4. The development of a strong trades union movement. substantial modifications. farm-1 I have been informed that 6. The development of a strong farmers cooperative movement. Pi, teaching profession, which is to of Utah are opposed ers high weare 6. Restrictive legislation which will prevent the centralized con- - I s? ?eces5ai7 state nation. wages. trol of credit and banking. I do not believe it. 7. The development of a liberal political movement. How can a farmer get a decent! Fight the sweatshop with the Labor Representation 8. The development of producer-consumI Union Label. cooperatives. Every time you de-n- o Employment of jobless workers price for his product if there are Each issue of the Utah Labor News will contain feature articles Union Label you are do- the mand laborers able to buy? and increased buying power for the on some phases of the above platform. to bit to your ing put the finishing If the farmer objects high I masses, which are the underlying to touch who profit on kikes the his in he be will not of the Is merely standing wages NRA, purposes their underpaid employes. achieved unless the working people own light. Low wages and low prices gof are accorded representation in al' TEACH THEM NOW bodies which participate in code hand in hand. Likewise high wages I and high prices. under the act. The people have a bag job ahead of them if the NRA and other I The children of today will be the The reason we are in this depres-- 1 I coae m The makers attempting functions to benefit are the important governmental people. of tomorrow. Teach them to and low sion of is because in buyers are direct wages The corporation controlled press is carrying on a publicity cam-- 1 planning industry, I demand the Union Label, Shop low I and anc industrial prices. unemployment, policies setting up paign belittling the NRA and Roosevelt program. and Card 1 Button, If we are to get out of depres-The open shop employers and corporation controlled daily press I standards that affect wage-earnesion we must strive to raise ourf do not want labor to organize because if labor organizes it will mean I profoundly. . ANDY MELLON order to exercise any real con-tal- k standard. a successful enforcement of the NRA law. Therefore the daily press I We cannot expect dollar wheat I must have the about freedom of the press and uses it as a smoke screen to trol, wage-earneknock Section 7A out of the NIRA. wages. Laborers eam- Among the richest men on earth right of representation where de- - and and certainly among the five The kept press is doing this with the definite object of in- - cisions are made that limit their ing 25 cents an hour must, of necwheat. I insist own men in the United States richest upon essity, the opportunities, fluencing congressional candidates and putting into congress men Farmer and laborer must pull to- - Andrew , W. Mellons aluminum If the NRA is to achieve its pur whom Roosevelt cannot control. The purpose of the press is to influence the people who will unemployed gether for better wages and better I trust was revealed at an NRA code e. ibs I increased and force the law in Washington not to be in sympathy with the president buying power rep-an- d prices for farm products, if they hearing as paying the most miserly must ever expect to get along in life. wage-earneof resentatives NRA. the wages of any American industry, code voice in of have some girls earning as little as 63 a staSe still are a eveiY They kept press of the big interests, the big corporacents a day. tions. making. Recovery Bulletins They will try to fill your minds with all kinds of propaganda, I and the big job for you is to keep your mind straight so that you can Who Are the Chiselers? ONLY TWO EXPLOIT New Federal bureau created to I KIDDIES There are business houses bear intelligently stand up and defend the rights of the people. It is up to the people to fight, tooth and nail, for its rights, and I ing the brunt of false rumors aDout make 4,000,000 new jobs imme-- 1 make the big corporations like it. Code which has NRA code violations. We have re diately. Genera! Johnson swings through L Practically every NRA agrees ceived numerous complaints of code violations, some of which, no child labor. Newspaper to ,,cXbv eliminate I? F. up loan board to at aad some blishers and the retaii farm im. Ldcubt IIARRIMANS BRAINSTORM are two excep-cit- y bomfLneS gage'b del"ed plementr 11industry tempts to injure firms and individiv Ju, nn n waTaf f a I uals. Public Works Administration Dons. children bctweei n 14 and 16 I to The I. patriotic citizen, desiring Harriman, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the Henry full speed in building I employ United States, one of the organizations which strenuously opposes that I support the President in his recov- - predicts years of age. by January 1. sectioin of the National Recovery Act which guarantees the right of I ery efforts, wants to know who the irogram Eastman urges railroads to rush the workers to organize in bona fide trade unions without interference I chiselers are. and purchases. from employers, is reported in the press as having told the Cincinnati, I Names are freely mentioned by equipment repairs mine strikers return Captive Ohio, Chamber of Commerce that in his judgment the Recovery Act I local residents in their conversation 1 The autumn leaves are falling, Roosevelt work after gives I about NRA activities and viola- - sonal assurance to rank and per-bars union shop agreements. file Flaming red and brown and gold; I tions. What a brainstorm I coal diggers delegation that he I Which shows winter is approaching I Perhaps it would be best to Undoubtedly Mr. Harrimans belief is father to his desires. will see that steel companies obey I With its bitterness and cold, and subversive antiunion employers of the Harriman I lish the names of persistent viola-typ- e peace pact. Those who dwell in warmth and n whose law of supply I tors. comfort policy is to use the Administration moves to appease J and demand to beat down wages and lengthen hours, know that trade I Do not worry, not at all. ; arm strikers. Do Some Thinking unions with union shop agreements resulting from collective bargaining Workers must have rep-- 1 They know nothing of privation are the only real protection working men and women have against the I It is a pity to go to some of the resentation on all codeadequate When the snow begins to fall. boards dealsubversive labor policies of industrial dictators. the hear labor and with organization meetings ing questions, NRA But how different twill be They would like to see trade unions outlawed by law in the United I members ask what they are going chief rules. I States just as Hitler has outlawed them by decree in Germany. Among the millions unemployed, Consumers board says big boost to do if the bosses do so and so. Of course there is not a paragraph or sentence in the National I If we build up our labor organi-Recove- in retail coal prices will not be jus- Some completely down and out With all their happiness deAct that prohibits union shop agreements. Nation we will make the NRA mean tified. I In fact it is likely that those who phrased the labor section were what it says, because we will en- stroyed. Ford lays off employes in effort To reeve this sad condition animated by the desire to encourage collective bargaining and thus I force the law. to discredit NRA. As our leader, Green, has said, enable the workers to participate by bona fide unions in determining as The NRA law will mean vv,v,t41( I We must have a shorter work-wee- k their wages and hours under the fair practice codes set up under the I much as the people make it just on mean. wages forest camp construction I Or tough sledding is ahead. Recovery Act. jobs. THOMAS H. WEST. As William Green, president of the American Federation of La-- 1 First Swope business 'control! Thats Different I 1933 convention of that organization: board flayed by labor. He pro-- j The right to enter bor, told the The publicity which the daily an agreement providing for a closed union shop has been conceded I pers are new scheme. the out poses against getting 1 and recognized by the courts in all their decisions. NRA indicates that the open shop That right is not vitiated in the slightest degree by the National I employers are willing to get the PUT YOURSELF ON THE Recovery Act, nor by any responsible interpreter of its constructive benefits, but they are unwilling to FAIR LIST to NRA of the benefits provisions. the extend Show your employer that .you, employes. t When the master retail code was too, are an employer of Union Laand bor by purchasing goods bearing signed, the department stores all other stores were perfectly sat- the Union Label. You ought to be isfied with that code. Why? 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