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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. MARCH 13. 1936. POLITICAL OUTLOOK ECONOMIC WAR IS DETRIMENTAL Continued from page 1) I SItafj labor Established 1929 MM but that may be on account of the papers wo see out here. However, he is a long way from being named, That is a matter the gentlemen who furnish the financial . neu-beco- s matter March 28, 1930, at the post office Entered aa at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. second-claa- Advertising rates by request. INDUSTRIAL ISSUE Tre-- . WASHINGTON. (UNS) backing for a campaign will decide niondous interest in Industrial either shortly before, or at the .unionism throughout the South- time of the convention. west and West is by llar- Ihere is one thing th. atan is yey C. Fremming, reported president of the out like a wart on a pretty girls 0j, FieI(1 Gas Weii & Refinery nose, providing she hasnt money Workerg, union Craft unionistg to have an operation, and thar t i . , wh0 attended he ad- meetings I lioover hasnt yet even r dressed in Oklahoma and Cali- honorable mention r,n...a"X 8t. too.l fornia were just as enthusiastic on and that goes thg Bubject ag thg memberg of hig I Hut he is not discouraged abUt itS I own union, he said on his return to The Republicans chasing the rainbow just as wildly Washinjrt0n "In the hoP that Jt may prove as ever, running from one end ofrdavkvP2basThe date and The gubjects for di8CUS8lon were m the country to the other and talk- , f . Jen as to the local unions a yu for the Ute demg at the sl.ghtest provocation thp meetings, but in every care j vention to choose delegates to the! with and delivered on Armistice day, lJ3o. viewing nouncing convention they chose industrial unionism as a Republican national on httle are doing convictions lately ma?or though alarm, My strong BUbiect Frem- Juno o in rwhmrl mlir. T meetine. wire lareeljr Thconvention will al.o elect national committeeman and a na . .. I tude of others t,0Thi tfoT my views will not bound Republican papers confine. i fore they can receive benefits and this provision is taken from an, old pension law that has never Prevfnt war and to refuse to per been repealed. If this is NOT a nut labor to be exploited by mill pension law then why demand tarists and imperialists, I a liens on that property? supporting the ndmims- I dont 8 Utah can be trusted to do the fratin neutrality bill. unwise thing on all occasions andhclieve that it will solve the the laughing stock of all I trality problem, but 1 believe it is a step in the direction of Ameri other states in the Union. can neutrality, and I will do what A MEMBER OF TIIE This paper receives the American Federation of Labor Newa Service. Subscription ARE STIRRED BY $1.50 per annum 0"l tL'pLj Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. . I . .. I 1 1 ..."hrordrirbuiTiUtam! infnrnpat k. th not to inside pages trends. A . bers would crowd up on the plat- ing of a committee to draft tn. tative party platform, which is to 8ay that they had beIon,?e1 of the Dicture and form The voters are sick and tired of be presented at the regular state hfs isut a craft for years or some one ur'ion and to a convention late in the summer. them. rnPPch it he blres him xes The voters will not stomach t mend the Committee for Industrial 8pf understanding them any longer. They want the out, Pcnely 0rpanization for the fine work it ig words. the half party promises fulfilled and desire I doing. legislation in the interest of the we ba(j a chance to vote on NEW MONTHLY people. the question, the vote would run , The demand or the voters to both . jjtab Labor News has re- - two to one in favor of industrial When all of the routine business parties is. to clean house, and it received Volume I, No. 1, of the organization, Utah, who were anxious to join a bona fide labor unfun. the craft unionists An employe of a small town municipal power plant said: "I oper- - of the committee was completed at must be a thorough cleaning. Utah trades Journal, & monthly told him time and again, Frem- ate the pumps and engines, the switchboard, keep the log, do the oiling, Saturdays meeting there was a . publication in Ogden, Utah. Its ming said Hoover peaks answer the telephone, test water, treat water for the boilers, call out general discussion of the prospects and manager is R. II Hoover has again spoken. ln3 publisher help in case of an emergency, polish the bright materials, and I nm re- - of the 1936 state campaign. The and Fuller the editors listed are I Political campaigns may come most optimistic ones expressed time it was a national radio hook- R - H F ller sponsible for the efficient operating condition of all equipment. o. Fleming and but the Union Label Drive Does that bring him under the jurisdiction of the operating en- - high hopes. for G. 0. P. success, ho from Colorado Springs Com. gJoes go, The on Johnon publication forever, K - while others resident Hoover. pointed to the diffi- - hou rememberso I much g tbe endorsement of the Ogden gineers, the firemen and oilers, telephone operators, electrical worklaBe culties which will have to be met. promised prosperity, Trades and Labor Assembly, ers, boilermakers, metal polishers, machinists, plumbers, carpenters, John P. Holmgren, a brother of and tben pave us empty stomachs,L borers, or what? As a matter of fact, he is a member of the switchmens purpose of the publication is union. At least he can remain undivided by staying in the union of his state senator from Box Elder! undernourished children, and mis-keep organized labor move- former trade. Iment of Oirden county, was not as optimistic asjery. informed as to its Hoover may not know it, nimseif, The boilermaker, the pipefitter and the machinist go into a boiler some of the others. What the and northern oden know of most the people Then they party will have to answer, he said,! but furnace and lay up a brick wall, continued this worker. issue of the March The Utah an unjuiced orange a8 L. from there on top is the fact that in 1932 farmers M16 3 go in the engine room and work on a switchboard coiurnn3 and eiVht f.ur j, and 1S I16 own Cool Drinks of the building to put on a roof. So you see what a chance we have were getting 30 cents for wheatlfar a3 pe0 LL. rnncicHnp- of interesting P,arty pages to follow craft, lines in the municipal enterprises in small towns of II and wheat has since jumped to 75 nla n ronromod. adver-howell as as material Hoovers failure to realize just reading cents and more. Utah! He also cited Tasty Ice Cream he is viewed, and also his tismg. The typographical makeup When the A. F. of L. organizer could give him no advice on how to that livestock prices were higher land of 0UTse, Creations divide a dozen workers among the score of craft unions existing in and that many jobless had WPA mentality, appeared in a recent is- the in shop printed It national of sue a magazine. Utah, although none in his town, he wrote to A. F. of L. headquarters jobs, etc. man, Inc. in Washington, D. C. Sentiments in line with that of We welcome the new periodical Andrew) us reminds Which that Mr. The reply read something like this: Holmgren were expressed by The Popular Drug Corner and wish it continued success an Hobel of Omaha, Neb., spent You state that the workers for whom you speak are employed as committeemen from Summit, linemen, boilermakers, stationary firemen, locomotive fire-- 1 chesne, Davis, Utah and Piute evening in the home of a friend WM. THORNTON The most effective way to give C. Hoovers . , listening to Herbert men, stationary operating engineers, locomotive engineers, machinists, counties. to ride is industriesa So things did not look so rosy, voice pour out of the radio for a unorganized DRUG pipefitters and common laborers. You then express the desire to or- hour or so. Listening, too, see that the Union Label is on the ganize a union in which all of these workers could hold membership The fortnightly radio messages of half Mr. 10 BUSY STORES right spot. Hobels friends Hoover are another obstacle in the was in a local union to be chartered by the A. F. of L. , had Hoover Mr. American When old son. quit. In reply thereto I would advise you that under the constitution way of Republican success. There Fork, Murray, One man sells shoes, another Provo, Delta, Salt Lake, sneaking, the boy asked his father: ami laws pf the A. F. of L. these workers, if organized, would come is no doubt about that, the of The use Brigham City, Ireston and under the jurisdiction of the national or international unions whose I Campaign funds were among the What was Mr. Hoover talking knowledge. pi makes the sole to disappear. interests are involved. Enclosed is a list of national and international worries also. The need for the Ogden (2). the latter helps the The father suggested the hoy Th use unions chartered by the A. F. of L., with the names and addresses of funds was recognized, but the I lad did sou reappear. chairman assured that their respective presidents." there is ask Mr. Hoover. And thehis com- on a post-carlimiting After his experience our small Utah town friend is not surprised money and there will be money for hrief to munication the request: that only a handful are organized in Utah cities outside of the miners this campaign. what your Tlease explain Someone whispered during the and railroad men. He says that there should be at least one healthy labor union in towns of 500 population or over. "Then we could get funds discussion that it should be speech said and oblige yours re-- 1 spectfully. trouble with the du Ponts somewhere, he remarked. Understand, brother, I am not against A week later the lad received but when it is impossible to follow craft lines then I think it is nancing the Liberty league. .... ' Chairman Tingey declared the a reply. It reqd: high time something is done about it, he added. I Democrat requests that we He certainly said a mouthful. party is making all the thankMr. Hoover you for your loyal and symOur experience in trying to organize small town workers showed issues we need. He urged a cam-thpathetic appreciation and is happy they were willing to be organized, but there were not enough of paiffn of Americanism, If the chairman had his way it to know that millions of stalwart any one class of workers to organize by crafts. We tried to organize them into Federal Labor unions and were successful, but these efforts would be a flag waving campaign Americans like yourself are preiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiniiiiii were killed by craft union walking delegates from Sait Lake City. They a"d throwing of charges of pared to restore our country to ,up by dividing the Federal union members into craft organi-- 1 munism, socialism, et cetera, et sane and honest standards. zations, with the ultimate result that there was NO union left in the cetera. Rather Pitiful town. Of course, there are serious ob- The Los Angeles Citizen says We could name several small cities in Utah where this has actually stacles in the campaign of the sort to keep happened during the past three years. suggested by the state chairman. the Republicans continue The vast majority of the voters are busy lining up their multitude of THE STRENGTH ESSENTIAL not afraid of that kind of night- presidential candidates, states are and out getting delegations picked mares. NEWS and COMMENT SENATOR MADOO WANTS preliminaries arranged. So CONSTITUTION AMENDED! Together with the activity of the all the a number of favorite sons are far, the business league, Liberty big (Continued from page 1) a numcared for, being profiteers, and the Hoover mis- ber of whom will probably WASIIINGTON. staff members on the Wisconsin (AFLNS) as as be-- 1 far go in minds the management News, a Hearst-owiie- d in daily, has Firmly convinced that adequate of the voters, freshly named convention at the ing inlooks it gloomy been only $22. At least one re- - federal legislation to To Cleveland. looks if as it date the improve deed for the "g.o!'p" porter was paid $15 a week. Copy economic condition of American Kansas Landon had the best of it, desk men, who edit the news storThe Biggest Problem ies and write headlines, were paid farmers is jeopardized by the de- The biggest problem facing both WHEN IN PROYO as little as $18.05. The refusal of cision of the United States su- the publisher to entqr into negotia- preme court invalidating the Agri- - the Democrat and Republican ITS Adjustment Act, Senator ty organizations, is how to rid the tions resulted in a strike on the of the chronic Wisconsin News, the only means William G. McAdoo of California party leadership SUTTON CAFE left for the employes to gain rec- has introduced in the senate a joint hangers-o- n and reactionary double1 resolution to amend the Constitu-- crossers. A Good Place to Eat ognition of their rights. Both parties have plenty of SOME THINGS, SOMETIMES Generally, salaries of working tion so that "congress shall have power to enact laws in aid of agri- these. newspaper men are lower than culture d what persons with lation. and for its reasonable regusteady jobs earn. The amendment, when ratified! Especially, Comrade Hearst, who m is now busy nominating Governor by the legislatures of Alf Landon of Kansas for the Re- of the states, would prevent the In December, January, February publican presidency, is noted for supreme court from invalidating laws designed his autocratic treatment of the federal regulatory you shouldnt advertise bathing suits to benefit the farmers in the fields newswriters. and electric fans. Most folks who Since the Newswriters Guild, a of production and distribution. was newspaper reporters union, would take them south have gone oldest and organized, he had trouble on his Francisco. in San the Now, papers and the well, why UNION Printing Plant Hearst publication in the Wisconsin is trouble. that metropolis having up? bring are The newspaper workers members of the guild and, no Nor would you advertise spinning doubt, will make Comrade Hearst such-and-su- ch I jl I ... I - w 13on David-Sto-sai- d: I f 12-ye- ar . form-abou- t? d, I I I OFIFEE R3. JJ. ffi. at corn-follow- ed COFFEE You Shouldnt Advertise par-cultur- al , IN OUR NEWSPAPER semi-skille- three-fourt- hs CENTURY PRINTING come to time. Milwaukee is a city and it is reported Utahs largest stay-at-hom- es wheels, rule stretehers or round well-organiz- ed that all or- ganized labor are giving wholehearted support to the members of the guild. The Milwaukee Leader, a Socialist daily, is also giving the striking newspaper writers splen- INCORPORATED Commercial Printers did cooperation. to local Catering organizations HELP US BY ASKING THOSE WITH WHOM YOU SPEND ana out-of-to- who desire firms and Union-mad- e squares. BUT ... Think of the many things our readers want and could he interested in wanting. Paper and 100 7o Union Printing. YOUR MONEY TO REQUEST The MASTER SALESMAN the UNION LABEL is TnE SYMBOL OF HIGHEST QUALITY PRODUCTS. OF AMERICAN-MAD- E ON THEIR PRINTED MATTER S. L. 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