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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. OCTOBER 9, 1936. A labor laws await supreme court test express their opinion of the government either informally or in their official capacity as voters. To denounce Hitler in Germany means death or long imprisonment. To speak a word against Mussolini in Italy makes you the worst possible insurance risk. To mildly a public meeting is being arrangec criticize Stalin in the U. S. S. It. to organize a Box Elder county gives employment to a firing squad. So it goes in Poland, Rubranch of the Labors mania, Spain, Austria and elseLeague. where. By the way, the Democrats of In this country you can say that Box Elder county have nominate! Landon or Roosevelt is a Mrs. Johnson as their candidate and no one will bother you. for representative in the state leg islature. A very good choice. Otto Schenkel, an all around NEWS AND COMMENT hustler, is taking up the in work Tremonton. League (Continued from page 1) Ephraim the basis of his 90 per cent calSophus Bertelson, manager of which he said was founded Ephraim theater, writes and offers culation, nation-wid- e reports and the use of his theater, along with on a free picture show for a Roose tacts, that would mean 7,200,000 labor votes in Novemveit rally, Monday night, October organized ber for four more years of the 2(5. Mr. Bertelson is very much in New Deal. Expressing confidence of healing terested in the reelection of Roosevelt and also Governor Blood. lie the break in Federation ranks over In making selections for the issue of organizing workers says: to trades at which they speakers for Ephraim, I would like according for you to keep in mind that this work or along industrial lines, resection is mostly farming, poultry, gardless of crafts, Green said the matter would be considered at a sheep, etc. However, the labor of the Federation execumeeting element should also be taken into tive council in Washington this consideration." week. Jjg ggisss ISSTS Litigation involving the constitutionality of three federa labor laws await action by the supreme court of the Unitec States when it assembles on October 5 after the summer recess Two of them involve the right of working men and women to organize and carry on effective trade union work by means o collective bargaining, The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sec ond Judicial district upheld the constitutionality of the Nationa Labor Relations Board charging the Associated Press with hav ing dismissed a member of the American Newspaper Guild for union activities. The Board found the Associated Press guilty of unfair labor practices prohibited by the Act and the Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Board. The Associated Press ap pealed the decision to the supreme court. The Labor act is also before the supreme court in an appeal by the Bradley Lum ber company of Arkansas, which lost its case in the lower courts. The National Labor Relations Act prohibits employers from: Interfering with, restraining, or coercing employes in the and collective barexercise of their rights of gaining. Dominating or interfering with the formation of or admin istration of any labor organization, or contributing financial support to it I Discriminating in regard to hire or tenure of employment LABOR NEWS Most Important or any ter mor condition of employment to discourage memberThe most labor the that with em an for in important provision ship organization, any the A. F. of L. executivething (Continued from Page 3) council with from a is into not an precluded ployer entering agreement the purpose and the reason for to consider in the controversy beunion of the appropriate craft or unit of employes making union their place in the community." tween the council and the Committee for Industrial Organization is membership a condition of employment. The annual convention of the the Federation constitution and the Discharging or otherwise discriminating against an em- 3hio State Federation of Labor, instructions of the Federation conploye for filing charges or giving testimony under the act. leld at Springfield, Ohio, adopted vention. Refusing to bargain collectively with the representatives of a resolution reported by the comThe San Francisco the employes. mittee on miscellaneous business of the Federation in 1934convention went on There is also a provision that nothing in the act shall be stressing the paramount necessity record by an overwhelming vote in of the labor movement and in favor of the industrial form of unity construed to interfere with, impede or diminish in any way the emphasizing the belief that the organization in mass production right to strike. controversy between the American industries. The executive council The other law involving the right to organize which the federation of Labor and the Com- failed to out the convention carry supreme court will consider is the Railway Labor Act of 1934 mittee for Industrial Organization instructions. Because of this failwould ultimately be adjusted so as ure the C. I. O. became active, and affirming the right of railway employes to organize and bargain to restore unity. is organizing steel, rubber, autowith of their own choosing, collectively through representatives mobile and radio by industries. the provision that the majority of any craft or class of employes This active organizing should Economic Highlights shall have the right to determine who shall be the representanot stop. It should continue. And tives of the craft or class for the purposes of the act. The law the A. F. of L. executive council ( Continued from Page 1) should lend its cooperation to the also outlaws yellow dog contracts by prohibiting carriers from AIR TRANSPORT: Is establishcampaign. new contract to Busiing sign any records, according to requiring any person seeking employment or agreement promising to join or not to join a labor organiza- ness Week for the first time in Let us not forget the principles involved. Organize, cooperate and tion. A decision of a United States Court sustaining this act the industrys history, passengers educate. carried exceeded in 100,000 July. has been appealed to the supreme court by the Virginian RailEMPLOYMENT: All surveys show that the unemployed rolls are way. See that the Union Label is on The third law of interest to labor on whose constitutionality decreasing, but slowly. And it is your bread and youll decrease the the supreme court will pass is the Ashurst-Summer- s Act of 1935 ain sad but true fact that the rise bread lines. industrial production has not prohibiting the interstate transportation of prison-mad- e products been accompanied by an equivalent into states that have established the state-us- e system and pro- percentage rise in workers emviding that such goods shall carry a label designating the penal ployed. One interesting result of institution or reformatory where they were manufactured. Spon- this is found in the political platforms. When the President started sors for the perpetuation of convict labor competition with free federal Non-Partis- an relief for the unemployed, labor are under the hallucination that the nations high judicial Republican spokesmen were biting tribunal may determine that some of their "constitutional in denunciation. Now Republican leaders, including Governor Lanrights are destroyed by this constructive legislation Non-Partis- so Non-Partis- FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT For Supreme Court Justice MARTIN M. LARSON For Secretary of State E. E. MONSON For Attorney General JOSEPH CHEZ For Treasurer REESE M. REESE For Auditor JOHN W. GUY For Superintendent of Public Instruction CHARLES II. SKIDMORE For Congressman First District ABE MURDOCK For Congressman Second Distric J. W. ROBINSON HENRY II. BLOOD VIOLENCE IN STRIKES an Hear Labors Alleged violence in strikes is a favorite theme on which the police and daily newspapers are employers, united in making public and deploring. Hardly a day goes by don, favor it, though they criticize in times of labor unrest without the newspapers featuring head New Deal methods. lines like these: Yes, the business picture is Paint Thrown on Employers Home. painted in bright colors these days. , And the commentators are still every Monday, "Violence Flares in Transit Strike." Tuesday, wondering what effect that will "Two Killed as Guards Battle Pickets." and Wednesday, Thursday have on the presidential race. Will Landon Is Ignorant After reading such headlines and the articles written to Friday nights, 8:30 p. m., curing trusts and our prosperity. the electorate give the credit for The daily newspapers fumbled lit to Mr. Roosevelt and endorse Governor Alf Mossman Landon bear them out, many readers are likely to blame striking work-- 1 over KSL. (CBS network). is either ignorant of the provisions the Winant speech and others in him or will it ers and their friends for the violence. the betterregard of the Social Security Act or his as being But the real source was disclosed in testimony before the a(ivjsera wh0 misled him are, John ?SWli failed of their duty a.ment This arrangement continues to that a Republican inevitable, think president could La Follette Civil Liberties committee in its investigation of labor G. Winant, twice Republican their readers to present both sides speed matters up still more? The every week until Nov. 3. in industrial disputes, with Railway Audit & Inspection emor of New Hampshire, said in a of current issues. betting odds favor Mr. Roosevelt. Partisan company as its subject. Here is a summary of some of the tes- Roosevelt Will Be Reelected! Thought for election day: In timony: League. few worn-is countries to can and man very It the up every j people E. J. Dade testified that he had been hired by the Railway it Governor Winant answered residen? Roosevek. iL,,,,l,im,miiiiiiininiimiminiinmmiiinimiiiminnmiiniimunmNnMi; & Inspection company for the express purpose of creat- - dons claim that the act imposes election0 o? savings upon the Consider the dark days under Re- ing disorder in strikes and thus discrediting the strikers in the compulsory man by saying the can- publican Hoover, and working the the of eyes public didate forgets the greater compul- days under Roosevelts New bright Deal. There was a milk strike in Cleveland. Frank Tabor was sion of savings which come from Election of Landon would be a the head of the Tabor Ice Cream company, whose employes had the fear of the lack of a job and backward step. You do not want walked out. In order to stimulate resentment against the strik- from the fear of old age. to go back, therefore it behooves He said Landon s desire to use you to get busy in behalf of Rooseers and arouse sympathy for Tabor, who was the .client of a spy the states as laboratories is either velt. Re-Electe- d? service for which Dade was working, the latter and his strike the result of his ignorance of the in your contributions Send for breaking associates daubed red paint on Tabors home. provisions of the act or of his ad- the campaign fund to reelect In the same strike, in order to make it appear that strikers visers who mislead him on this Roosevelt. Mail them to the Lawere firing on the company guards, the guards fired on them- subject. bors League, 24 In conclusion Winant said, South Fourth East street. Salt selves. This emphasized the apparent necessity for more guards "Hazards to life, liberty and Lake City. Every penny received If Vu haye not contributed to Labors and more business for the concern that furnished these thugs. E stalk our land. A de- will be used in the campaign to reproperty In the strike of the employes of the Pittsburgh National pendent childhood, unemployment elect Roosevelt. E campaign fund to reelect Roosevelt, do so now. E We need stamps to carry on cor- E The money is needed. Dairy company last year, guards were ordered to slug members and old age are common enemies against whom the nation should respondence, stenographic work, of trade unions and thus induce a counter attack. A contribution to the Roosevelt a united front. An advance traveling expenses' of speakers, ra- E Seven hundred strike breakers were recruited during the press campaign fund will has begun and no man has a right dio, etc. Every penny counts now. E you a membership card in the Labors n E Wisconsin Light & Power company strike in Milwaukee. The to call a halt. jrng Do not fail to do your part. and a beautiful League,' button. The lapel S and strikers We amount as the them a with must handles nation to in ax 2 slug provided you and, company be used in the campaign to reelect President S ?n the American spirit, seize the occaturned live steam on the picket lines. Brigham City E sion to Roosevelt. insure the se- B. of of Johnson Henrietta blessings BrigDouble dealing is the regular practice of these spy concerns. The Railway Audit & Inspection company sent one of Send your contributions to the Labors E n its spies into a refrigerator strike in New York City. He posed League of Utah, 24 South Fourth East Street, Salt Lake E as a friend of the strikers and became the union's publicity City, Utah. agent and at the same time furnished the company with daily Use This Form E E reports on union activities. I. The testimony also revealed that the R. A. and other E E Labors League of Utah, 24 South Fourth East -spy services make a regular practice of using bribery and threats j Street, to persuade union members to become spies. E E Salt Lake City, Utah. Federal Laboratories, Inc., is a subsidiary of the Railway Audit & Inspection company. According to the testimony this Enclosed find $ a contribu- E tion to the campaign fund to reelect President Roosevelt. Please E concern sold tear gas bombs, machine guns and other weapons ave my r?Tme entered as a member of the Labors 10 E to both companies and police for use in labor disputes. It was of Utah, and send me a membership card, and a League but- lapel Under Auspices of Labors the practice of the companys spies to stir up violence. ThereLeague E ton of the League. E fore, it is easy to see how one branch of the business helped the other. It worked like this. The more spies and company E Name.. Speakers: Alf E. Gunn and Others guards there were to create violence, the more gas bombs and GOOD UNION MUSIC guns were required and the more workes killed. E Address.. business netted the Duing the depression this spy concern a profit' of $1,300,000, after paying its officers Admission Tickets 50 Cents per Couple large salaries. The money was contributed by concerns which (Paid Political Advertisement) refused to pay their workers enough wages to prevent strikes. anti-lab- or League Speakers I ( gov-spi- es Lan-Aud- Do You Want Roosevelt Non-Partis- an Of Course You Do! Non-Partis- an Non-Partisa- Non-Partisa- E&ooseveUtt EaUIly BDfflim At Rainbow Garden Helper Saturday Night, October Non-Partisa- Non-Partis- an Non-Partis- an n an niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiimniir I f |