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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. NOVEMBER 13. 1936. yellow dog still lives in the lies and threats which some VOTERS VINDICATE THE ployers include in their pay envelopes. STAND OF UTAH LABOR NEWS When a foreman says to a worker, Itll be better em NEWS AND COMMENT for (Continued from page 1) if the the have to worker doesnt don't ceived 661 votes; Dillman, 362; union, you you join mind-read(Continued from Page 1) boss know the is threatening his liveli Peery, 178. a be to who are in the executive offices of the state federation. Charlie hood. d district in Salt Coon and his cohorts have carried on a vicious campaign against Lake county carried for Blood by er Magna-Garfiel- the Utah Labor News since 1929. The reason: Because we urged a still thorough house cleaning at the temple. It needed cleaning andunderand needs it. Peterson, Crose, et al, have carried on a dirty handed campaign against us since 1934. The reason: Because we adopposed the federation being used by selfish labor politicians for vancement of their own political ambitions. They have devoted most of their time spreading venom throughout the state. But there will come a day of reckoning. The members of organized labor who desire to be fair, will not condone their tactics. Affiliated organizations will not continue to pay per capita tax when they learn that their money is squandered for dirty politics, instead of the advancement of organization and cooperation. The editor of the Utah Labor News can say with a clear con science and, without fear of successful contradiction, that we have played the game square and in the open. We have not sold our political prestige for a mess of pottage, nor have we sold the labor movement for 30 pieces of silver. We have not resorted to threats and racketeering in order to gain support for the Utah Labor News. We may have made mistakes, but the events of time have sustained our stand 99 times out of 100. and false accusations of our Salt Regardless of the half-trutadversaries we can hold our state federation and Lake Labor Temple head up and continue as we have in the past, advocating organization and cooperation, which is the true foundation of the American labor movement. The recent political campaign showed our adversaries in their true form. Their tactics were disapproved by a vast majority of laboring men and women of Utah on election day. It is to be hoped that for the good of the labor movement a g will follow in the Salt Lake Labor temple, thorough city federation and state federation. This cleaning is necessary if the labor movement is to win back the prestige and good will it has lost in the recent months through the bone-hea- d manipulations of leaders. hs house-cleanin- over-zealo- us WINNERS AND LOSERS WORK TOGETHER November 19th means a lot to Americans and to the world. On that day in 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered the immortal Gettysburg address. Some of the newspapers of the day derided it. It is now the most memorized speech of all time. Practically every person going through our schools has learned it at one time or another. It is a part of the ritual of one secret order. Its last two sentences are appropriate right now. There is g Americans. The a task remaining before all divided the had been to delivery of Lincolns prior country speech. For some months the war of words divided us prior to election. It is now time to heal the hurts, bind up the that this nation, under wounds and resolve to work together God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. And propaganda is hardly a degree more 996 plurality. subtle. Coming right along with a mans wages, its unspoken Bingham district gave the govmessage is clear: This is what the boss wants you to think ernor 752 plurality. Murray district and do. He pays your wages and can withhold them. gave him 643 plurality, and MidThe lying propaganda against the social security act with vale 299. known Ward 2, Salt Lake which anti-labcorporations stuffed their employes' pay en- as the working mans City, ward, gave effort to secure election of their man, Blood a plurality of 3350, and thus velopes in a Landon, is on a par with the whole propaganda campaign again led the city wards for democarried on by the same companies against union organization cracy. Salt Lake City and county gave the governor a plurality of in the steel and other industries. The aim is to fool rather than to convince. These em 18,976. Tooele countys plurality for ployers know that their arguments against social insurance Blood was 478. will not stand up in any fair debate, any more than will their In Weber county Bloods pluralicitin ty was 3788. arguments. They know further that Ameican zens have a right to vote by secret ballot, uninspected by their theThe above pluralities are from leading industrial, mining, employers. They know that a man has a right to join a union, smelting and railroad centers of whether his boss likes it or not. the state. Just to show that workers voted for Governor Blood. that their know union Furthermore, they by exercising and political rights American working people have the power A. F. of L. Meet to knock the props out from under industrial autocracy. The convention of the American So our 1936 autocrats relied on a judicious mixture of Federation of Labor meeting in intimidation and persuasion-o- n ruling by fooling. The idea Tampa Monday is the most mowas to play on a worker's natural fear of loss of his job and mentous one in its history. Upon this annual meeting depends to cajole him into voting and acting against his own interests. whether two factions shall the But labor's recent industrial and political advances unite under one banner, or go their proved once more that American working people are neither separate ways. More than a million cowards nor fools. In fact, it looks as if the would-b- e foolers members under the leadership of John L. Lewis in the Committee for got fooled Industrial will be pay-envelo- pe or last-minu- te anti-unio- 1 LABOR LEADERS ON WRONG SIDE government has declared for the UNION principle. It is a government of all the people, and we cannot reasonably expect that it is going to give us something which is against the interests of other entities in our social scheme, and I dont believe that we want anything of that kind, but I do believe that it is time we looked at our own house and set it in order for the grievous fight that is at hand. Let us begin by looking at the situation in the American Federation of Labor. As long as I can remember, during my connection with the labor movement for 30 years, the more enlightened unions have been struggling against the methods employed by those unions which place their chief dependence in force, the boycott, blackmail, I lisrepresentation and intimidation. Heaven only knows how much the unfavorable impression made on the general public and the employer has cost us in lost progress. It is in the hands of the REAL Organization ousted in the event the convention upholds the suspension order of the A. F. of L. executive council. William Green and John L. Lewis agree on the principle of industrial form of organization. There is no doubt about that. Green has been ilaced in a position where he has o translate the decisions of the Federation executive council, whether or not he agrees with November 8, 1936 Mr. M. I. Thompson Editor Labor News 2ity Dear Brother Thompson: I noticed an article in the last hose decisions. issue of the Labor Broadcast quotThe C. I. O. is supported by a L. presiGeorge Berry, Major ing majority of organized labor in dent of Labors Jtah. eague, as being sorry that a misThe rank and file are for reconmade in been had take Utah, ciliation between the two factions, which article stated that this ex)ut in the event of a break, a pression of Major Berrys had been the of the labor movement in made in reply to a letter from is Utah CounTrades expected to follow Lewis Salt Lake Building eadership. cil. Knowing of the unselfish and We believe the suspension order meritorious efforts that had been by the Federation executive counput forth by Utahs cil was illegal. We cannot find in believe that league, I could hardly the constitution of the Federation corhad Trades letter the Building THE AMERICAN WORKERS VOTED that would sustain the situation the Utah anything rectly portrayed councils action. to Major Berry. I therefore took It is up to the Tampa convention The greatest possession of a free people is the ballot-th- e the trouble to write Major Berry, to settle the matter. The conven- one of a letter, and am in receipt TT i. x dter-- ; right to vote. It is a defender of our liberties and a paragraph of tion delegates will either unite or which reads: Federation. Regardless of JSSL? weapon against injustice. I have heard no criticism from what happens the labor movement The election returns in November, 1936, indicate that anyone with reference to the apwill place the responsibility for the this invaluable heritage was prized by millions of good citi pointments made, with the excepa in corrected letter eiw1' splittinS of ax Federation directly zens. The workers, farmers and independent business and tion that I was the of f the the Up0n president conditions of tion executive council, where it attempttoetterour professional men voted. They voted for justice and demo regarding State Federation of Labor. I had labor, to patronize the Union pro . identified some gentleman as presi- duct, to meet cracy. The vote this year was exceptionally large. in an amicable at belongs. us Let this The results of fact president. tempt to solve serious hope for the best! years voting are proof positive that dent who was not incriticism problems, have I is the the people were aroused and took advantage of their rights This only when we are balked at every turn could not of of the activities of the WoI course, heard, and, officials were election when This the was as voters. one by our own leaders? What did report public written mens know except by Legislative Council. we out of the election? Were chosen by majorities the vote of the majority was not si- possibly Mrs. Percy Park reported on the acceptances of members of labor in thosegetof our ranks who voted Re lent. This is as it should be. Elections vitally affects us all the state who were willing to par- publican fighting for a return to the Union Label our government. ticipate in the conduct of Labors the American plan of life? Rather League. This year, there were great issues before us. It was our ntA Smfir talk wa? Slven for the AMERICAN PLAN of me that in quoting to It ' Harmon, a visitor, on appears duty as well as our privelege to mark an X opposite names only one sentence from Major Ber- employment. And we now have the the of our choice on the ballot. Only by doing that, can we main rys letter the Broadcast was guilty extreme pleasure of knowing that- v,r-u- and, s pJTp?sf.3 Asso once more Utahs OFFICIAL Laciation. tain popular government. of the most obvious effort possible, Mrs. W.. A. Parker, chairman, In Germany the right to vote has been virtually abro to mislead. Certainly, in view of its and indorsement other members of the W. I. A. of a Republican open gated at the last election German citizens had a choice of candidate and the final result of Christmas stamp committee, have endorsing Hitler or of leaving the ballot blank, there being no the election in Utah and the nation, movement. This will be played up .TS,' ? $50 worth opponent. That is true of Italy, of Russia, of Greece, of a the REAL union movement should hv the same press which L: Hamson to strove have no doubt as to which element return us to the American Plan of stamps had been sold. dozen other powers. The president, Mrs. M. L. Ham-so- n, Here in democratic America we have that right which in Utah is regardful of labors in- of Life; let us at every opporof has been Those members club chairterests. organpreserves our freedom and democracy, and it will be con- ized labor who followed the shame- tunity seek to prove to the public, man of the W.appointed A. I. Union Label tinued so long as the people will take the interest in the ballot ful lead of the leaders with their our employers and our friends that committee. , crew we are not the roughneck that they did this year. Mrs. Hamson has appointed Mrs. sample ballot, should, in the light some people would have them e. M. I. Thompson reporter for the They voted on November 3. They voted for Roosevelt, of public sentiment, hang aretheir Let us demonstrate by our so in shame that they auxiliary to the Tyographical JourLandon, Lemke, Thomas, Browder whomever they believed heads our moderation and nal.. reasonableness, affairs in with union touch little was the best man for president. They did the same for other as to be misled in such manner. our citizenship that we are merely The next meeting, on December great public of the U offices. It was their inalienable right to vote for whomever Those who justify their mistake part, be a Christmas party at TW of And home the issues the of Mrs- - Fred Mugleston, men and it on only by voting they pleased. by pleading that they thought no more than we are entitled to, 929 Princeton avenue. was labor another quarrel the time, can that right be preserved. just that we do intend to get that The will entertain at a would better wake up and take but auxiliary so long as we have our CONSTI- card on Tuesday evening, more interest in their own affairs. TUTIONAL party RIGHTS. RULING BY FOOLING November 17, at 8:30, at the home Personally, I am tired of seeing Fratemallv yours. of Mrs. J. W. Caldwell, 447 Westaffiliates to central bodies pay the J. F. RHODES. minster avenue. cost constant There, will be terrific of misreprepropaganda is a good example of the sentation of labors causes, all in tables for both 500 and bridge. border-lin- e over which economic autocracy infringes on poli- the name of labor. AH members and their families and Typo. Auxiliary friends are invited. Mrs. C. A. Rod-betical democracy. President Roosevelt, since the Will Entertain and Mrs. F. E. Morris will Slavery, and feudalism, are supposed to be things of the election, has stated that he believes assist the hostess. vote he the tremendous of country past. But there are still many employers who cannot get used for the New Deal is a definite manAn interesting meeting of Wo, .. to the idea that when they hire a workers labor-powe- r they date to the administration to see mans Auxiliary No. 16 to Typo plumbers Local SAN FRANCISCO (UNS) do not buy him body, mind and soul. V to it that labor receives the sort of graphical Union No. 115 was held The yellow dog" contract has been outlawed by the treatment we of the REAL union1 at the home of Mrs. O. W. Wil- - Local 442 of the Plumbers union for helmson Monday afternoon passed a resolution calling for the United States congress and by the Utah state legislature' Un- - ovement have been fighting A Mrs. new Roland more these rescinding of suspension of the is member, years. What der it a man was required to sign away his civil birthright to wanted?many C.I.O. unions and reference of the For the first time in the i Bess, was initiated, union organization in return for a job. But the breed of the history of the United States the I Mrs. J. T. OConnor presented a matter to the next convention. Non-Partis- an right-thinkin- Non-Partis- an ?n ma-;ori- ty - P. "T I Non-Partis- an r i ?d be-iev- J qiL Pay-envelo- pe 4 rg . . |