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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, JULY 24. 1936. prevails today, among us human creatures, even in the north, and all professing to love liberty. The above words might have been written yesterday, but they were not. They were spoken by Abraham Lincoln at a fair in Baltimore on April 18, 1804. He was answering those who contended that the abolition of chattel slavery would destroy liberty. Today the problem is not chattel slavery, but wage slavery. The reactionary industralists and financiers in control of the Republican party contend that thft abolition of wage slavery would destroy liberty. Lets get the meaning straight. When reactionaries and reactionary politicians speak of liberty they mean liberty for some men to do as they please with other men and the product of some other mens labor." They mean the right of capitalists to exploit labor. When New Healers speak of liberty they mean the right of labor to be free from capitalist exploitation. Our Candidates For President For Vice President NEWS AND COMMENT LOOKING AHEAD which, one after another, have been convicted by labor boards of firing their workers for union ac- tivity. A Bed-Tim- e Bargain Story bedtime tellingcould not stories in a kindergarten be more incongruous than the next morsel that falls from the jagged teeth of the steel trusts publicity mill. The steel industry believes in the principles of collective bargaining, and it is in effect throughout the industry. To back up this fairy story the Institute points to the company union plans, under which the work-- , ers are periodically herded together) by foremen so the company can King Kong play a game of heads I win, tails you lose with them. Under the rules of this company-devise- d game, the workers may elect representatives to talk things The over with the management. last word in these talks is always had by the boss. He umpires the game as well as plays in it. The company unions have no treasury and in fact no independent existence of their own whatever apurt from the management, whose assent must always be obtained. The citizen who buys Union-mad- e goods every day is doing more to aid recovery than the citi. zen who votes once in four years. There is no good reason why he can't do both. The strongest Union Label plank in any economic platform is: Demand the Union Label, Shop Card and Button." Continued from page 1 1 By Len De Caux the Utah Labor News has always HOLDING OUR OWN AND GAINING held an even balance on matters When a water pipe bursts or the roof suddenly develops a bad pertaining to issues of the day, King Kong of Steel both politically and economically. leak, we are glad that there are men in Utah who can capably come It has never wavered in its policies A dinosaur prowling around the to our rescue. of education, organization and Empire State building in New Everyone is glad that we have our own stores especially in cooperation. York and peering into upper win- - emergencies. The Utah Labor News has gained A community that has men of various trades, businesses and prothrough its policy of fair dealing a Mow8 might create a sensation. fessions in its midst is fortunate indeed. But when the bellow of a King place in its field of service that There is, however, a tendency nowadays on the part of some to go cannot be destroyed by plain Kong comes from the vicinity of to the larger centers to shop. The variety is sometimes a little better Wall Street, no one even calls out and the nuts and is pleasant. trip would-b- e the fire department. dictators. While we likes to get out occasionally and The challenge which the Amer-I- t sometimes it realize that everyone to outside tradesmen, the editor appears employ necessary I ican Iron & Steel Institute roared of the Utah Labor News Has Happened To Us feels that our own best interest points to excla-into the one faces of and hears the the public Frequently local loyalty. mation. Why did this have to hap-- 1 the employes in the steel industry Expert craftsmen and professional men have found it necessary e in its 375 ads is a to leave The other fellows pen to me? other communities because people did not turn such business I editorial car can be stolen, the other mans startling reminder of prehistoric as Several months ago in the Utah Labor News appeared an could their way. Then, naturally, they missed them in emerthey y bill, which was submitted to wife prove unfaithful, or the other survivals in modern industry, urging the passage of the gencies. More than a century ago his neck, or lose his congress to prevent sweatshop and chiseling industries from obtaining man breakmother-in-laLet us that mistake in cities and towns of Utah. As the but when I ing people fought and won the home is the not make center contracts. It created quite a stir in Washington judging precious natural of community life and loyalty, so are comto comes it home we say, Why did right from the results. We surely started something! organize in labor unions. munities the vital centers of what is best in national life. I They were beaten, arrested, de- The American labor movement, and particularly the labor unions I this have to happen to me? selfishness would therefore appear to point to the Intelligent a na-1 same The won holds in significant ported, tortured and killed in the thought affiliated with the Union Label Trades Department, the tional affairs. We read of spies in struggle. But before the present practicality of buying at home and employing community workmen. law. became y bill a when Congress passed the victory bill in the waning hours of the last session and the Iresident signed the foreign lands, of men proving false generation was even born, this If your emotions only run from A to B, how do you ever expect to homeland for a few paltry dol- - right was legally established in the measure within the last few days. to experience the thrills of a Zioncheck. So sad! I United States to we lars but insist that with it and the couldnt elsewhere, government Under the new law, all firms contracting Now in 1936, American steel provide it with supplies in amounts of $10,000 or more, must agree to happen in America. Well, it hasSome happened again, in these enlight- workers are setting out to exer- - the hounds Uncle Toms Cabin companies have been so poor that even conform to certain labor standards and conditions. . yowled at their fellow actors ened times. It took a Los Angeles rise this legal right by organizing A maximum working day of eight hours and a maximum working federal jury just ten minutes to into a great industrial union. And week of forty hours are required. bring in a verdict of guilty suddenly, over modern wires and rate of wages in the locality is established. The ' The prevailing of Wall against Harry Thomas Thompson, radio, comes the battle-cr- y Jaw prevents the employment of child labor. Provision for factory sanitation, at least equal to that of the state a former yeoman of our fleet, for I Streets over-siz- e hairy ape who selling naval secrets to Japan. never has and never will allow laws, is now required. n Harry was original in being the union rights to the The new law abolishes sweatshops, child labor, and home-wor- k first of his kind to dothis. Pos- - modern workers it rules! labor on all supplies which are sold to the government. By Sidney R. Phillips Outsiders Run Industry Senator Walsh and Representative Healey are to be congratulated sibly during the next 20 years or on obtaining the passage of this measure on the last day of the session, so he can figure some nice orig is Not that You all have heard of Roosevelt, inal way to pass the time pleas We thank all members of congress who supported it. to be attributed to the literally Our President so great. in federal a prison The, American labor movement appreciates the loyal support it bankers and lawyers who lord it He s been in Washington four years. ceived from citizens throughout the nation, who wrote and urged their over steel. They are smooth and senators and representatives to vote for it. We handed want him there for eight. soft gentlemen. Their A high salaried lobby of manufacturers, sweatshop employers, and He is a of great renown. man crooked chiselers went to Washington in a last effort to kill the measbut their are contacts physical he told a those in which Outstanding we will say. Diamonds, ure. They were unable to head it off! of the counting-hous11 We of who the a man y It the bill Federal Statutes. story is now an Act on sought The give three cheers for Roosevelt, J. P. Morgan knows the grouse will be a great advantage to those labor unions which have adopted a wide world over in search of moors of Scotland better than Hip! Hip! Hip! Hooray! he union label because this emblem is the best guarantee that products wealth and who upon returning does the steel mills of America. Oh! Mr. Roosevelt, Oh! Mr. Roosevelt, in home found diamonds penniless are manufactured under the conditions required in the new legislation. The lieutenants he places in charge The greatest man the country ever knew. a brook on his own farm. U. S. Steel probably never asLouis Voss of Sunbury, la., did- of Quite diplomatic, and democratic. sociated an open hearth with anyfind diamonds find did he but nt There is no other man like you. THE MEANING OF LIBERTY thing more than a crackling log $234,800 buried on his 880 acre fire before they got their present farm after the demise of his cousin The flowers that directorship. The author of the song, Oh! Mr. Roosevelt, is a resident "The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, whom he cared for, bloom in the spring have as much of Salt Lake City. Mr. Phillips is an ardent Democrat and a is a The ground queer bank for to do with and the American people just now are much in want of one. We all blooming mills as they Roosevelt supporter. It was played for the first time at the declare for liberty; but in using the same word, we do not all mean money, especially if you dont tell ever had Roosevelt rally at Liberty park, June 27, by Helds band. The the same thing. With some, the word liberty may mean for each anyone where it is. But Louis Voss Lawyers and other outside agimusic for the song had been arranged by John Held, the pioneer man to do as he pleases with himself and the product of his labor; while is probably glad that his dear tators were by the cor bandmaster and a member of the Salt Lake City Musicians union. with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they cousin chose the sand banks in- porations to employed devise and impose some the state stead of banks of men and are labor. other with mens Here the of other please product their company unions. When extwo, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same for the safe keeping of the golden perts are needed, they are brought name, liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the re- hoard. in from any or all other industries. Cheer up! Although it may cost) Yet spective parties, called by two different and incompatible names, libwhen the Amalgamated to bad be can you your liberty you erty and tyranny. Association of Iron, Steel & Tin d for nothing, The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheeps throat, for which be Workers turns to big sister unions the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces for expert advice and assistance, Are They? him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep Wall Streets interlocking directors here are was a black one. Plainly, the wolf and the sheep are not agreed upon Sappy days again. of- of every-whic- h in Ameri- That8 !he way the crabby the definition of the word liberty; and precisely the same difference La rajse the cry industry that persons and lfice bachelor Put t when he readorranizations Qt conected with in two New York that boroughs of have the of industry charge City June brides led 1,358 more drive. IRe-Electe- d? to the than altar were grooms Rule of Force Fears Force last year. Crabby dotes The next cry that comes from on the divorce scandals so he does not realize that there are many the King Kong of Steel is one of men who have been married many mock-fea- r of coercion and intimi- years who can say as did Elbert dation in the campaign. The Pinkerton gunmen who shot Hubbard, I have never fully an- alyzed the mind of the woman I down steel strikers at Homestead, If you are not now an Original Roosevelt Nominator, love, for there is always and for- - the state cossacks who beat Fanny it is not too late to enroll. ever an undissolved residuum of Sellins to death in 1919, the coal wit, reason, logic, invention and and iron police who murdered John comparison bubbling forth that Barkoskj, the deputies whose guns The One Dollar, or more, you contribute to the makes association with her a con- - barked death at Ambridge work-tnuRoosevelt campaign fund will bring you a certificate that delight. I have no more ers- do these represent the co-- 1 sounded the depths of her soul ercion which the Institute fears ? you are a Roosevelt Nominator, and the amount you send Or does it mean the threat to the than I have my own. will go to the national campaign fund to reelect President What she will say and what workers of the arsenals of deadly she will do are delightful prob--1 weapons now stored in the mills? Roosevelt. By intimidation, does the lems; only this, that what she says Stovall Department Store Company remodeled the building in and what she does will be regal, stitute refer to the fear for his Join the millions of Roosevelt nominators. You may which they were located in 1933 in the City of Sacramento, and worked right, gracious, kindly tempered job that hangs over every steel in cooperation with the labor movement, carrying on satisfactory to with a lenity that has come from) worker? Is it thinking of the foresend your contribution through the office of the Utah Lasuffering, and charged with a san- - man with power to withhold live-- 1 organized labor and the various trades involved. This work embraced ity that has enjoyed, and which lihood from a man and his family bor News. the various trades of the building industry, including labor and con- knows because through it plays who goes through the plant tellcrete work, carpentering, painting, steel work, electrical work, plumb- unvexed the Divine Intelligence ing workers theyd better not join that rules the world and carries the union, theyd better vote in Use This Form- ing, etc., all of which was done by Union men and satisfactory to the the in safety on their ac the company plan, or else ? planets Council Trades of this city. Building Does it mean the hosts of customed way this I know. who make it unsafe even Having such a wife as this, I M. I. Thompson, Publisher In recognition of the fair attitude displayed by Mr. Stovall, man-- . do not chase the ghosts of dead to think aloud of unionism? Utah Labor News, Or are these bold barons of steel tbe graveyard of ager of the Stovall Department Store, this statement is made so that bo,fe,sr - e as Proved herself coerced and intimidated because 24 Fourth East Street, Salt Lake City. any party or parties interested may know how this particular job was an ideal mother in that their workers are now finding courcarried on and that the Building Trades Council appreciated receiving tenderness and loving service age to defy discharge by joining a Enclosed find $ which is contained in the word, union and pledging to stand up to-- 1 both the work and the cooperation from this concern. as a contribution mother. She, of all mothers, real- gether for their rights unterrified? to the campaign fund to reelect President Roosevelt. Please have izes that the mother is the true The Institute fears the closed M. J. KUNZ, Secretary, my name entered as an Original Nominator of Roosevelt, and (Signed) teacher that all good teachers are shop, it says, speaking for comsend me a membership certificate. (Official Seal) Building Trades Council. really spiritual mothers. I mar- panies whose mills are moated, ried a rich woman one rich in guarded and armed like belealove, lovalty, gentleness, insight, guered castles, whose gates are Name one who locked in the face of union men, gratitude, appreciation caused me at thirty-threyears of and whose real fear is that their Prior to opening their store in Salt Lake City at 256 South State age to be bom again. Address.. shops may be opened to union While it may be true that some organization. street, this year, the Stovall Department Store Company paid Employment in the indusfry $2,188.56 for union building labor employed during the remodeling of men do not appreciate their wives it is certainly true that Crabby, does not depend upon membership the store building. The orders of the management have always been the office bachelor, cannot appre- or in any organito employ union building tradesmen if it is possible to get them." ciate what he has never had. zation, says steel companies! f stabbers-in-the-bac- ki full-pag- I Walsh-Heale- work-governme- nt I w life-givi- ng I Walsh-Heale- - I I I I I OH! MR. ROOSEVELT half-millio- 1 hairy-chestedne- ss re-ant- ly e. Walsh-Heale- Do hT on Want IRooseveit I wed-locke- Stovall Department Store Go. d Of Course You Do! Employs Union Building Labor al In-T- I , stool-pigeon- s- - s' |