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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DECEMBER 4, 1936. ROOSEVELT of President Roosevelt, has become the pub- COERCIVE TACTICS lisher of Hearsts Seattle P.-- I. BRING PROTESTS (Continued from Page 1) It has also been definitely education, of thought and of free arranged for Mrs. Boettinger, the Steel Workers Ask Roosevelt to former Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, to expression. Push Law Steel That through it we can obtain a write features for the P.-- I. Tactics In Company Seeking greater security life for our citito Protest Stir White Agreement zens and a more equal opportunity After Election House. Hello, John. for them to prosper. How are you, Alf? That through it we can best fosWASHINGTON (UNS) residter commerce and the exchange of John Hamilton meets ent Landon science between for the first time mendRoosevelt was urged to recomart and nations; legislation to eliminate such that through it we can avoid the since November 3. coercive tactics as were employed rivalry of armament, avert hatred comanies in connection the steel by and encourage good will and true CHRISTMAS SEALS with the agreement, justice. in a visit to the White House by That through it we offer hope This is the chairman of the for peace and a more abundant life when all of us time of the year Elmer J. Maloy, District Council of emshould make use Pittsburgh to the peoples of the whole world. of Christmas Seals, and thus as- ploye representatives, and George sist a worthy cause. The Utah A. Patterson, representative of South Chicago Works, Carnegie-Illino- is POLITICAL OUTLOOK Tuberculosis Association, affiliated Steel Corp. with the National Tuberculosis AsThe steel workers thanked been has sociation, doing a splen(Continued from page 1) did work for a number of years. Roosevelt for clarifying his stand Reader's Comment The Christmas Seals supply the on the wage basis I would suggest that the funds with which the association which steel companies have atH. I. Utah Labor News friends sub- puts on its campaign against the tempted to impose on their emscribe to this splendid paper for dread disease. They supply a child ployes. The president corrected any their friends and relatives as a health camp, diagnostic clinics, impression that he favored the Christmas gift. It will make a and nursing service, and support companies proposal, when he dethat the cost of living should splendid gift. I am going to sub- a continuous health education pro- clared not be considered if it is to curb scribe for several of my friends gram. This year, as has been the cus- improvement of wages. during this Christmas season. Tactics Described tom for many years, the AmeriD. T. Every man and woman in Tactics of the U. S. Steel Corp. can Federation and of Labor, Utah should be a reader of the to humanitarian other compel signing of the agreeLabor News. It is one paper organizations Utah have endorsed the Christmas Seal ment, according to the steel workI can' believe and depend on. ers, included using a threat that C. S. Enclosed find $1.50 fora sales. the plants not signed may not par- renewal subscription to the best little paper in Utah. I am proud RAYON WORKERS mediate meeting for negotiations. of the Utah Labor News and hope ASK UNION RIGHTS Besides the 15 that all your subscribers will pay increase, the union also I a asked clearer this season. Christmas explanation of up during how the $900, Q00 allotted by the know every dollar you receive will CUMBERLAND, Md. (UNS) help to make the paper bigger and The big plant of the Celanese Cor- company for increased wages better. poration of America has been com- would be distributed among the pletely shut down by a strike of its employes. 9000 employes, demanding a 15 They claimed that the manageA Terrible Funk ment had deliberately confused the increase. The were workers wage are passing since the Weeks organized in the United collective bargaining provision of election, but the Literary Digest is recently Textile Workers, with the aid of the agreement by attempting to still in a terrible funk. the Committee for Industrial Or- inject a process of individual bargaining not acceptable to the union. ganization. Cant Beat Em, Jine Em The workers also insisted upon the settlement of the Proposals for The Liberty League crowd is de- strike were submitted by the work- policy of shop committees provided comoonistic ers at a conference in Washington for in the agreement. ciding that the The Celanese Corporation is a Roosevelts arent so bad after all. with officials of the Textile Labor British-owne- d $40,000,000 concern. Miss Ethel du Pont, daughter of Relations Board. Cumberland range at Its F.D.R. call union the for has These for wages recogniJr., picked Eugene, a husband. Some time ago, Hearst tion accorded by the Celanese Cor- from 23c an hour to a maximum took Elliot for a radio executive poration in an earlier agreement, of 77c for skilled men, in contrast the under which the employer agreed to salaries to officials of over news that latest and the says Boetto collective bargaining and an im- - $100,000. John husky, ringer, son-in-la- w Anti-Coerci- on cost-of-livi- ng cost-of-livi- ng fake wage increases and bonuses, he said. They expressing their fundamental Union as Drive Gains are desire for their own independent and their resentment DETROIT (UNS) As many as organizations at raises and bonuses that alleged 3200 Detroit auto workers in a were more made than up for by reweek have joined the union, in the! classification of speed-uand jobs, upsurge of organiza- cuts in piece rates. tion, reports President Homer Martin of the United Automobile! FLINT, Mich. (UNS) More Workers. than 500 auto workers joined the This is the workers answer to union in one evening, and many applications are continuing to come ticipate in an increase; keeping in, following a successful these representatives in almost at the Fisher Body plant, reports continuous session for three or four Vice President Wyndham Mortimer days to force them in line; telling of the United Automobile Workthem most of the other plants had ers, in charge of organizing work already signed when the truth was, in Flint. Some 700 workers on the bodythey had not; calling in individual representatives so that greater building lines stopped work for and four and a half hours until five pressure could be exerted; even going so far as to place on discharged employes were put back bulletin boards all over these plants to work. circulars erroneously crediting the Enrollpresident of the United States with CANTON, O. (UNS) approving such a yellow dog con- ment of 234 members at a single tract. meeting is reported by the United The employe representatives also Automobile Workers. asked for a law with teeth forbidding the financing of company CLEVELAND (UNS) The unions by the management, in any United Automobile Workers has way, and providing for complete won wage increases of from 5 freedom from employer interfer- to 10 per cent for 800 workers in ence, so that employes may choose the Murray-Ohi- o plant, following their collective bargaining agency negotiations between the managewithout fear or favor. ment and Local 65. Thousands Join Auto on I sit-do- MORE AND BETTER TOYS FOR LESS MONEY TOY PARADE AT GRANT'S THERE IS A MAIL BOX DIRECT TO IT SANTA IN GRANTS TOYLAND. WILL BE A MERRIER CHRISTMAS IF YOU SHOP AT GRANTS. ed i ...from the... SYSTEM OF BANKS TO ALL OUR CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS WE EXTEND WISHES FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR FIRST SECORITY BANK OF UTAH, II. 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