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Show cxi By M. 1. T. It a Fine World This is a fine old world in which we live. And our own Uncle Sam's republic is among the greatest nations in the world. The people of our country may have their political, religious, social and economic differences, but when everything is taken into consideration they are the greatest people on earth. The democratic form of government of the United States has no equal under the sun. The .other countries may have SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. JUNE 12. 1936. VOL VI; NO. 49. anks Platform AFL Urges Labo For Republic ON ORGANIZING citizen. We extend congratulations to the senator, and at the same time . STEEL INDUSTRY By A. F. of L. News Service. J Steel and Tin Workers recently, WASHINGTON, D. C. William This plan of the Executive Council now been has thwarted through Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, made the fol the acceptance of the proposa made by the Committee for Indus owing statement regarding the ac tion of the Committee for Indus trial Organization. The officers of the Amalgamat-e;rial Organization in its campaign of Iron, Steel and of organization in the steel indus Tin Association Workers the organ rejected of well balanced mind one who try Execuoffered the plan izing by Counci Executive the Because class does not tolerate legislation, and tive one the Council, accepted La but at all times stands wholeheart- of the American Federation of b ythe Committee for In proposed tremen the in the xr fully appreciated edly for measures that are dous difficulties which would be en dustrial Organization. interest of all the people. Under the terms of the agreeI had an occasion to keep close countered and the powerful opposi ment entered into, the Amalgamatwhen a met be tab on his work when he was a tion which would ed Association of Iron, Steel and member of the lower house, as well campaign of organization in the Tin Workers becomes subordinate as during the last session of the steel industry was launched, it to the Committee for Industrial legislature, when he was returned sought to unite and solidify the Organization. The organizing camby Utah county voters to the sen- entire organized labor movement paign proposed will be carried on term. of the country behind it. ate for a four-yeby the Committee for Industrial Unity and solidarity were es Organization, separate and apart True, there were certain agitathe tors who blamed Senator Royle for sential requirements. This was in the plan sub- from the American Federation of things that did not happen but, principle embodied Labor these accusations came from the mitted by the Executive Council to For obvious reasons it will now the of ele-members harum-scaruand officers the ( inexperienced, be impossible to unite and concenIron of Association Continued on page 2) Amalgamated trate the full and complete economic. financial and organizing force of the American Federation of La. bor in an immediate steel organ izing campaign drive. It has been ciuite evident for a long timethat those in charge of the administration of the affairs of AN ANSWER TO REACTIONARY CRITICS the Committee for Industrial Organization w'ere determined to experiment in the application of their (Continued from last week) one form of organization which The New Deal recovery is being felt throughout the country, and thev had so definitely espoused. Roosevelt the denounce now so who all citizens, even those severly Having embarked upon an adconA few beneficiaries. its been percentages have administration, venture in which they plan to carry trasting conditions under the New Deal and under the Old Deal prove on experimental organization work that the New Deal has benefited the American worker, agriculture, along one line in the steel indusindustry and finance. all interested will have an opBetween January 1, 1935, and January 1, 1936, industrial produc- try, to learn of the virtue, portunity tion advanced 51 per cent, steel production advanced 257 per cent, validity and success of said plan. auto registration .advanced 326 per cent. Between January 1, 1933, All will await with interest the and December 1, 1935, the dollar' fortunes. They are opposed to that final outcome of this new organizavalue of exports advanced 33 per change. They have organized to tion drive of the Committee for Incent and imports 37 per cent. make war upon the Roosevelt ad- dustrial Organization in the steel Stocks Advanced ministration because it seeks to manufacturing industry. Listed stocks on the security ex- give an opportunity to the averadvanced 134 per cent age man. They are content to let changes from March 1, 1933, to January 1, your government nominally exist LOOKING AHEAD 1936. Listed bonds during that per- in the city of Washington, but they cent. 22 By Len De Caux iod .advanced want to return to the financial per To the worried public utility barons of America the power to friends it might be said that from dictate the policies of the govern1, ment. Theres a Reason For A. C. W.S January 1, 1933, to January increased Belief in Industrial Organization What Arguments? 1936, power production congratulate the majority members of the Tintic District Miners' union No. 151 for their wisdom and good judgment in their choice for the leadership of the union. I have been an admirer of Senator Royle for several years. His legislative record is thatof a man ar m THE NEW DEAL per cent. three-quarte- rs eral government. Sought Domination Through the instrumentality of tariff subsidies and expenditure for public works, the federal government developed certain sections of the country controlled by the dominant party, leaving other sections at the mercy of the favored states. These acts of the government contributed to the accumulation of great fortunes in the hands of a few individuals, and these few individuals, in turn, used that wealth to continue the reactionary Republican party in control of the government in order that they might continue to enrich themselves at the expense of the masses of the people. Among these favored citizens there are a few who have an appreciation of the great responsibility which rests upon them by reason of their wealth. But they are few. To the great majority a new deal means an end to the old deal by which they accumulated their 4 UXicirr COOPERATE r: In view of this remarkable record of achievements it is difficult to understand the vicious attacks that have been made upon the President and the Democratic ad ministration, unless you recall our political history. of a century, For with the exception of 16 years, the Republican party w,as in control of the United States government. Possibly because they were in control, they concentrated great power in the administration of the fed- 2 93S EDUCATE ORGANIZE their proletarian dictators, fascist CLEVELAND, Ohio. (AFLNS) convention of the Federation. It is A. F. o: dictators, or any other dictator The American Federation of La. based upon the following ship in one form or another, but L. declaration: they are not in it with our Amer- bor nonpartisan political commitThe American labor movement ican democracy. tee, headed by President William is not partisan to a political party We may have our trials and trib- Green, had a conference with the it is partisan to a principle, the ulations, but they are nothing in platform committee of the Repub- principle of equal rights and free comparison with the peoples of lican party here relative to the in- dom. those countries ruled by dictators. clusion of the demands of organIn carrying out this policy orLet us Americans stand for ized labor in the party platform. ganized wage earners are urged to America FOREVER! In addition to President Green, "stand by the friends of labor am the committee consists of the fol- elect them and oppose the enemies A New President lowing A. F. of L. officials: Frank of labor and defeat them, whether State Senator Elbert M. Royle Morrison, secretary-treasureT, they be candidates for president, was elected president of the Tin A. Rickert, second vice president; for congress or other offices, tic District Miners' union No. 151, Matthew Woll, third vice president; whether executive, legislative or International Union of Mine, Mill G. M. Bugniazet, seventh vice pres- judicial.'' and Smelter Workers, at the refer ident and Felix Knight, fifteenth The nonpartisan political comendum election held Friday at vice president. mittee will also present the de Eureka and Santaquin. The nonpartisan political policy mands of organized labor to the This is pleasing news, indeed. of the American Federation of La- Democratic convention in PhiladelSenator Royle is an able execu- bor was reaffirmed by the 1935 phia later in June. tive and leader, and an orator of no mean ability. He is a student of economics and a strong advocate STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT GREEN of a square deal for the average 19 AUG 1 Review oi Current Events News and Comment HBtuitr rT rx wir ur What are' their arguments against the Roosevelt administra- tion? They say the administration has 'increased the national debts. Thats correct, but not one of them is fair enough to say that of the in: creased debts four and one-habillion dollars is invested in loans amply secured. These loans are so secured that the government of the United States will not lose a dollar.. Some of the securities have already been sold at a profit to the government. In their efforts to destroy confidence the New Deal enemies assert that the credit of the government is in danger. The fact is, under the Roosevelt administration government credit is so good that outstanding obligations have been refinanced at a rate of interest as low as m per cent. , Campaign Pledge-Butsay these reactionary Republicans and cellophaned Liberty ieagures: You failed to live up to your campaign pledge to reduce expenditures bv 25 per cent. Every schoolboy knows that after the platform was adopted in June, 1932, because of the incompetency and inefficiency of the Hoover administration. the conditions no one could have anticipated made it impossible to reduce expenditures. And the last to make this charge should be those who most often make it, namely, the presidents of banks, railroads, insurance companies. and corporations, who, in the dark days of 1933, went to (Continued on page 3) lf It is no accident that the unions pushing most aggressively for industrial organization of the industries are-- unions with a record of organizing success in their own fields. The convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers in Cleve-an- d serves as a reminder that con. fidence in the possibility of spreading unionism among the unorgan ized has a solid basis in the actual experience of such unions. President Sidney Hillman did not lave to indulge in any flights of :ancy to convince his listeners that i;hey should not pay too much attention to the croakers who say, on mass-producti- It cant be done. All he did was to remind that 25 years old-time- rs ago the same kind of people were saying that the clothing industry could not be organized. Today he stands ,at the head of a union of 150,000 members in an almost completely organized industry. It is a union that is still growing, still organizing, and its approach to the needs of the whole labor movement is colored and determined by its own experience. When the delegates of the Amalgamated voted with such unanimous enthusiasm to continue the work of bringing unionism to the workunorganized ers through the Committee for Industrial Organization, they were mass-producti- saving in effect: By organizing along modern dustrial lines, and by planned on page 3) ined 5 Cents Per Copy Landon Appears to Lead As G. 0. P. Favorite Political Outlook In , Price: Utah and U. S. Compiled From Report i of Observers (Senator Steiwer It Boomed for Vice President Borah Is Debating On Platform Planks Hoover Delivers an Appeal to Republicans Kansas Coolidge Forces Claim Sufficient Votes to Assure the Nomination. Gubernatorial Drive The tumpuign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination is in I The developments in the Republican national convention U?iinnlrtPr iVfVmmn, Cleveland point to the nomination of Alfred M. Landon (the H. Blood, who is seeking reelwtio?, Kansas 1 have opened campaign headquar-Loolidgej to oppose President Roosevelt in the Novem-ter- s at the Newhouse hotel, with I ber election. Heber G. Taylor as executive sec- Landon a running mate possibly will be Senator Frederic n Arthur M c hTriane, f omestate senator, as director of the Salt Lake county campaign. Mr. Taylor resigned as chief ;S!nt The ' of the eownor governors campaign ernors closest rival in the f r?on St,ejer convention WJ as temporary chairman and keynoter a hit with the reactionaries, when, he (Continued on page 4) I GREAT NEWS FOR TIIE WOMEN READERS OF THE UTAH LABOR NEWS 'm- head- - Husbands Urged to Request Wives and Daughters to Buy Union Label Dresses. nomina- tion campaign Putting .all things, political, together in connection with the campaign for Democratic nomination for governor from the reports to the Utah Labor News from observers in all sections of the s.tate, I and laying aside all personal pref- erences, we would say that if the nominating convention were held this week Governor Blood would receive the plum by a safe mar- It is now possible to buy cotton they are buying union made cotton dresses with the union label. This dresses. We would appreciate it will be good news to thousands of if a committee w.ould call on local merchants and ask them to stock housewives in homes in label garments in the future. utaj, Advertise Union Label Union cotton dresses carry the Our international is doing evprosanis" label of the Interna- erything in its power to publicize tional Ladies' Garment Workers the fact that union label cotton union. dresses may now be purchased. It gin n communication to a has set aside a special fund for the Utah the from the reports we Judging have at hand this week we are Labof. Ne.ws' H(!len ,DLun,can west-saf- e purpose of helping to create a dern reetor, umon label activities mand for this union label merchanin saying that Governor Blood for the International Ladies Gar- - dise. It is contacting womens would receive 56 per cent of the Workers union, says: ment groups, church organizations, lib32 Senator Maw, party strength: The erals and trade union groups wherLetter per cent, and Senator Hugh Wood We would like to call your at- ever and whenever possible, trying 12 the third ward, candidate, per tention to the fact that the Inter- to impress upon them that colleccent. As the situation presents itself national Ladies Garment Workers tive buying and collective bargainat this writimr the governor has union has recently adopted a label ing work together to eliminate used.. in the cotton garment chiselers, sweatshops, long hours the lead with Senator Maw as the . to .be . and all the attendant misery and strongest competitor, and Senator 8e?,wL if the& ,lndustl7,l 'prosanis' label has oppressive conditions. Woodward as poor third. There are hundreds of shops in Of course anything can happen ben: U,sel m ,other departments of cotton garment industry still some was the it time, in politics. . The next 30 th? KWe are working day of this that unorganized. altogether. year the situation' daary change we la and cotton complete-th-tas- k to use. of for bql had3 night ip It de?iendMM active organization and campaigning. It must be con- garments. Now buyers can be sure bringing these unorganized workceded that the governor has a the cotton dresses they purchase ers into the ranks of a bona fide are made in union shops under American Federation of Labor strong and well organized cam- conditions fair to organized labor. union. You can help us accomplish paign committee, and his opponcome We to you, fellow union- this by helping us spread the news ents must do some tall hustling in ists, asking you to help us spread that union label cotton garments order to gain ground. the good news that union label cot- are now available, by contacting ton dresses are now available. We your local storekeepers, by sending Race Republican The Utah Labor News' observers ask you to see to it that the cot- us information about any unorganton dresses your wives and daugh- ized ladies garment factories there reporting on the G. O..P. race for ters buy with your union earned may be in your vicinity, and by nomination for governor give the are union label dresses. We INSISTING that the women in money to W. W. has who edge Seegmiller, you to inform your label sec- your families ask for union label lad his hat in the ring for the ask tion that women can now be sure cotton garments in the future. 12 with W. E. months; past Kelly, the Salt Lake merchant prince,) gaining ground daily. With the gains reported fori Celly during the past week, and if the gains should continue for the next few weeks it would not be at all surprising if Mr. Kelly should be the choice of the RepubThe Junior Label Party I . Gubs convention to oppose the A carnival spirit was in the air, But he strutted around very self Democrat nominee. The big meeting room of the milk confidently, while the boys and and the are Seegmiller Kelly only active and announced candi- - drivers' local was gaily decorated girls clustered about him trying to dates for the G. 0. P gubernatorial with colored crepe paper and the find out what his costume meant. He said, very mysteriously, Youll nomination. There has been talk of red and blue and gold union but, according to reports, ners. Children in funny costumes find out if youre smart. those who have been mentioned are were running around the room. But I Suddenly, Marian exclaimed. this was no ordinary costume see it! There it is 'way down on reluctant to enter the race. Some of those who have been party. These kids were not dressed the bottom. Hes just drawn some mentioned, in their heart of. hearts, up like butterflies or fairy prin queer bug in the corner of the it is said, feel that this is not a cesses or pirates. No siree! It was paper. The other kinds crowded around Republican year in Utah, and for a union label party, There was a loaf of bread walk-th- e and bent over, and there, sure this reason do not care to enter race. ing around. Jimmy Jackson had enough was the bug Marian had As matters rest now the race is taken ,a big cardboard box, painted seen. between Kelly and Seegmiller, with it white on the sides and a golden But it isnt a bug, it is the emthe latter in a slight lead, and with brown on the top, and attached it blem of the allied printing trades, Some of the John exclaimed. Kelly gaining ground its getting around his middle. interesting and those on the side kids thought it didnt look an awful Fatty nodded triumphantly. I lines are eagerly watching the race lot like a loaf of bread, but the (Continued on page 3) to see if Kelly will be able to gain big union bakers label left no enough strength to capture the G. doubt as to what Jimmys costume ROYLE HEADS 0. P. nomination. represented, It is going to be a merry race, Jane was inside some dark TINTIC MINERS to say the least, between the lib- - brown box, only her head, arms eral and conservative factions of and legs showing. The box said the party. Kelly has liberal lean- - cigarettes on it, and there was a EUREKA. E. M. Boyle of tobacco workers- - union ings, while Seegmiller is consid- - big was elected president of the ered a regular by conservatives. label right over one shoulder. Tintic District Miners' union No. Here came John Colt who was 151 at an election held Friday at I chairman of the committee that the union headquarters. School Superintendent Charles H. Skidmore, state su- - had arranged the party. He had Victor G. Pett, and Mr. Royle perintendent of public instruction, cut a big circle of cardboard and were elected delegates to the conwill be a candidate for reelection had drawn in crayon the union vention of the International Union on the Democratic ticket. This an- - button worn by the grocery clerk of Mine, Mill and Smelter Worknouncement was made this week in the store to which he always ers in Denver. went. He held it in front of him, Mr. Royle, after the election reby Mr. Skidmore at the capitol. Supt. Skidmore, a native of and when someone told him that turns had been tabulated, said that Utah, received his early education it looked like a shield carried by with the cooperation of the memwithin the state. This was aug- - a medieval knight, John, who bership he expects to do his best and ser-ua- for the upbuilding of the union. mented by two years of post grad- - would get very grown-u- p A number of very fine boys work at the University of ious at times, said, It is a shield. were elected to various capacities Chicago and Columbia University, It can help to defend workers. Just then everybodys attention in the local, the newly elected New York. Superintendent Skidmore has was diverted by the sudden appear- president said, and with proper taught at Brigham Young college, ance of Fatty Brown. Fatty had team work we should have a sucg presiBrigham Young university, the taken an enormous sheet of blank cessful year. The Utah State Agricultural College paper and seemingly considered dent, Mr. Ashley, and all those who and the University of Utah. He that ,a proper costume. How in the served with him have done a splenwas superintendent of the Granite world did he get into the party did job during their incumbency without any label picture on him? and the union continues to grow. (Continued on page 2) lican ban-other- s, I El-ber- ch I te 1 out-goin- ta |