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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, NOVEMBER 13, 1936. THE AMERICAN PEOPL- EHOW THEY ARE AFFECTED BY THE FEDERAL-STA- TE PROGRAM FOR SOCIAL SECURITY & R M every employer in America, name- Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and Wyo ly, about 3,500,000, also receives a ning. Address: Patterson Building number for identification purposes. 1700 Welton Street, Denver, Colo Even though this information is of Director: Heber It. Harper. the simplest kind, it may be reItegion XII California, Oregon confidential as on the garded part Nevada, and Washington. Address of the applicant and may rest lumboldt Bank Building, 785 Mar wholly as a private matter between ket Street, San Francisco, Calif. him, and the Social Security board. Director: Richard M. Neustadt. Everything is being done by the It is well now and then to look Social Security board to receive ap-- I at present events in terms' of his plications and assign social securi- torical perspective. There is little ty account numbers as quickly as ioubt that November, 193G, will go possible. down in hwtory as a great turning IIow Proceed point in the course of American This is what the wage earner life. It represents the actual beginmust do then during the period nings of the social security probetween the publication of this gram for great masses of people, article and December 5: Between February and November 1. Secure an application blank over 1 Vi million needy Americans either from his employer or from have received direct assistance his postmaster. The date on which through the Social Security board, these applications will become This month is being pavei available will be announced by for another theway of the segment great newspapers, radio, and in other population to receive benefits. ways. Until this date is announced Outlook Will Change workers should not apply to post As soon as unemployment comoffices for application forms. 2. Fill this application blank out pensation gets under way in all in the ordinary manner, that is, in the 48 states, dependent, of course, ink or by typewriter, printing the upon state action, the huge social name clearly and writing as legi security program will change the whole outlook of life for the wagebly as possible. America will 3. Return this application blank earning population. come have through. post free.' This can be done in This writer has confidence that any one of five ways: by returning it to the labor union office, or by American workers will not miss the giving it to the letter carrier, or great historical significance of this by taking it to the post office di- months events, lie believes that rect, or by giving it to the foreman labor is prepared to take part in at your place of work, or by put- f his great push of peace; that it ting it into the mail box in an en- will shoulder the responsibility to addressed: Postmaster, get every eligible worker to file his velope Local. application; that it will do more it will see that the In due course of time he will re- than this ceive from Washington from the minds of the workers are properly offices of the Social Security board prepared to understand fully the a card bearing his account number social significance of social securiand assuring his right to receive ty. If workers have followed the e benefits under the Social previous articles which have appeared in this series, they will have Security Act. Correct Information the means by which to prepare the When in doubt, the applicant way for participation in this procan always seek official and cor gram. Mine, Mill Workers Name New Heads DENVER Robert C. Drown, of Butte, Mont., was chosen president of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers following a referendum vote among the organizations membership in the United States and Canada. The results of the referendum completed Oct. 15 furnished by the Denver offices organization's showed other officers named for term are; Dan Orlich, the one-yevice president, Butte, Mont.; John ar M. Sherwood, secretary-treasure- r, McGill, Nev. District board members chosen for the ensuing term are: John M. Emmons, Anaconda, Mont.; Glenn Gillespie, Tooele, Utah; John Fitzsimmons, Georgetown, 111.; Tony McTeer, Richer, Okla.; Van D. Jones, llessemcr, Ala.; Jess Gonzales, Langeloth, Ia., and Oda L. Wilson, Spokane, Wash. amendments dealvarious with changes in the ing constitution were all adopted. Important among them was one that imits the holding of any office, to not more than two consecutive terms. The nomination of officers and the submission of amendments were made at the annual convention of the organization held in )enver last August. Twenty-thre- e thats about a ground hog shadow ? seen its The Union Label is the harbinger of Better Times! SPRING that on your merchant! old-ag- WHEN THE 77ie Master Salesman 99 rect information from the regiona office of the Social Security boarc Should Seek Cover established in his region. The list two hours he had been the ARREARS ON YOUR PRINTED For their with offices the of regional pest of the party. Hia imitations MATTER ALL UNION MEMBERS addresses and with their directors were KNOW YOU ARE THEIR terrible, ranging anywhere follows: to a Arliss from humming George FRIEND, ANI) ARE HONOR-BOUNRegion I Maine, New Hamp- bird. In the far corner had been TO SlIRRORT YOU, shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, the man with the screwed Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Ad sitting IN TURN. face. dress: 120 Boylston Street, Boston, up What would like like to see me Mass. Director: John Pearson. TRY IT ANI) SEE imitate now? asked the bre. Region II New York. Address: man moved. He spoke. IIow The 45 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Di .rector: Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg. Region III New Jersey, Penn- UTAH STAMP COMPANY Lylvania and Delaware. Address 118 West South Temple Wasatch 2588 Salt Lake City, Utah Widener Building, Juniper and Manufacturers of Pa. Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia Rubber Stamps, Notary and Corporation Seals, Brass and Director: W. L. Dili. Bronze Signs, Dog License Tags, Etc. Region IV Virginia, West Vir- Catalog Sent on Request ginia, North Carolina, Maryland, and District of Columbia. Address: National Theater Building, Wash-ca- n C. Director: G. R. D n II HEDGES " Editors Note: Something unusual, vast, and important is taking place in the United States this month the social security account e numbers are being assigned to 26 million workers eligible for benefits under the Social Security Act. In the third article of his series, Mr. Hedges drives home the significance of this greatest syn- chronization of man power in peace or war in the nations history. Xr old-ag- November, 1936 sees two great demonstrations of Ameri- citizens. The first was the regular quadrennial visit to the this year it was the greatest peacetime demonstration in poll the 'history of the Republic. The second great demonstration to be launched this month is new. It has never happened upon this continent before. It has to do with the assignment of social security account e benenumbers to 26,000,000 wage earners eligible for ' old-ag- fits under the Social Security Act. i , fear of insecurity, the wage Probably this program represents earners of America will join in the greatest synchronization of man power during peace or war that this country has seen. Mass exercises in cooperation such as this have had too little publicity in the past. Ready to Cooperate In a real sense the social security account numbers are to be assigned ' Familiar with the modern to 26,000,000 wage earners by wage alrf in set is earners. The machinery f cr motion in Washington by the well- - ?lcas of pne America reaeration oi per organized general staff of the So- - Labor has a number filed at his cial Security board in cooperation international office by which he is with the Post Office department, identified. His union card, also Forty-fiv- e N bears mfr ' amber. the great UmJd Sta.es as temational . office they not only curity board in this great push The success of the venture depends upon the intelligence and social consciousness of the wage earners themselves, in particular that group of articulate wage earners gathered in organizations which understand the underlying philo sophy of social security. Already members of the American Federation of Labor have informed the labor division of the InformaSocial Security Board tional Service that they stand ready to cooperate in this gigantic mobilization of wage earners. They have signified, too, their intention of bringing the program to the whether notice of all wage-earnenot. or are organized they No Confusion As the drive gets under way and as the press, radio, screen, and other agencies of public opinion inform the nation that there is somesun, thing new under the American the agenamely, a chance to dispel rthToStl1? teSalTe! - rs Ohio, and Michigan. Address: Bulkley Build- ing, 1501 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Director: Benedict Crowell. Region VI Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Address: 211 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111. Direc- WELCOME, LABOR y-Ke- ntncky, tor: Henry L. McCarthy. Tennessee, MissisRegion Alabama, Georgia, Florida, sippi, and South Carolina. Address: 1821) First Avenue North, Birmingham, Ala. Director: Bowman F. Ashe. Region VIII Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. Address: New Post Office Builing, Minneapolis, Minn. Director: Fred M. Wilcox. 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