Utah Labor News | 1936-12-18 | Page 7

UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. DECEMBER 18. 1936. 7 and is now close to the 100,000 Christmas thenost accurate of business baA RISING TIDE OF Trade mark. rometers increased 19 per cent in LABOR UNIONISM In Detroit alone, 3,200 joined the the Pacific states, the largest gain. Best Since 1929 U. A. W. in one week after the Second with 18 elections, and in the following week 3,000 more. In Flint, 1.000 new members in 10 days; in Anderson, Ind.f hundreds more; in Canton, O., more hundreds; and so on all over. Rayon, Rubber and Radio Or consider textiles, where the C. I. O. is throwing its weight be hind the United Textile Workers. More than 8,000 rayon workers organized at Cumberland, Md., in the short time the C. I. O. has been on the job, is not so bad. And still better is the recent strike settlement there, bringing substantial wrage increases and firmly establishing collective bargaining in the big Celanese Corporation plant. Or look at the rubber industry. Since the C. I. O. was formed, a nucleus of some 3,000 unionists has developed into a strong union of 35,000 members. Seven new lodges, many negotiated wage increases and a series of beneficial strike settlements are reported since the unions September convention. Or tune in on radio labor news. The United Electrical & Radio Workers report a settlement giv- (Continued from Page 1) izera and with money, energy and ambition to take full advantage of every opportunity for unionization. It is the major factor in promoting the present wave of unionism that is beginning to sweep the country. And the results already achieved seem to indicate that this is the tide which is going to lead on to the fortune of a real or ganized labor movement of Ameri cas working millions. Rapid Strides In Steel In steel, the C. I. 0. drive has been attracting new union members at the rate of 2,000 a day since the elections. The last membership figure given by Philip Murray, chairman of the Steel Workers . Organizing committee, was 114,000, and by the time this is read it will be far greater than that. The steel campaign from stretches Nova Scotia to the Pacific coast. It is almost impossible to visualize the simultaneous activities of the hundreds of organizers engaged in it in every steel center of the United States and Canada, ing them virtually a 100 per cent let alone report their daily prog- union shop in General Electric at ress. New Kensington; election of a maWe have to content ourselves of union men in the comwith .scattering reports of inde- jority union elections at the big pany pendent and company unions won Westinghouse plant in Pittsburgh; over here, there and everywhere, of new lodges chartered (scores in and notable progress in nearly all other big plants. the Chicago area alone), of local theAnd dont overlook the Shipstrikes settled, of agreements building encouraged to signed, of improved conditions launch a Workers, drive since nationwide new hundreds and of of won, C. I. O.; the with affilated members signed up here and they Coke Gas the nor and Workers, thousands there. O. C. I. a now the of through part If reports to S. W. O. C. head- the United Mine Workers, and and quarters were so immediate complete that we could add up all making noteworthy membership these varying signs of progress, gains. we still would not have a true picture. For even as we were making CULINARY ALLIANCE the addition, the picture would ELECTS OFFICERS have changed, so rapid is the present advance of unionism in steel. Auto Workers Advance Culinary Alliance No. 815 electC. I. O. progress in the auto in- ed the following officers Wednesday for the ensuing dustry has made the headlines even more than steel of late, be- term: Wesley Walters, president; cause of the novelty of the work- Albert H. Hughes, vice- president; strikes. P. S. Peterson, recording secrers' stay-i- n and The success of the United Auto- etary; Thomas Startin, secretary-treasure- r: Eldoras Williams and mobile Workers at South Bend was in the nation Robert trustees; Ernest Wilson, picturized throughout the laughing faces of the men and Dixon, inspector; Frank Zirbell, resentinel; John Mullins, Jack Johngirls who for seven long daysBen-dix be out to locked the son and Wesley Johnson, members of fused their The of of high spirits joint board; P. S. Peterson, plant. to Mullins and Lester Larson carried John through parade victory the hundreds of workers who later delegates to city federation; Leengaged in the equally spectacular ster Larson and Mabelle Kelleher, strike in delegates to union label league Midland Steel stay-i- n John Mullins, chaplain. Detroit. The newly elected officers wil But less publicized have been installed January 6. in dozens of plant after and the industry, plant throughout Now, children, asked the Sun the almost daily union gains in you wages, reinstatements and many day school teacher, why do minor improvements. suppose that in our prayers we ask All of this is the result of . a only for our daily bread and not carefully planned organizing drive enough for a week? Well, tetacher, replied little of the U. A. W. with C. I. 0. assistance. The auto union has more Johnny, thoughtfully, it might be than doubled its membership since sos we will get it fresh every it cast in its lot with the C. I. O., Way. . six-mon- th - sit-do- sit-dow- A fc-- ns furniture factories covered by the settlement. The agreement specifies week. 40-ho- ur per cent were the east Alaska Cannery Workers Free north central states. Americans will spend more than Themselves From Contractors four billion dollars this Christmas season on gifts, apparel, jewelry Uphold Workers Rights San Francisco, Cal. AFLNS) and food, according to estimates Norris, Tenn. Following a re- A recent report to the San Franof leading retail agencies of the lent meeting here of the Fellowship cisco Labor council revealed the nation. The total may even ex- of Southern Churchmen, at which fact that the Alaska Cannery ceed to top the outpouring of Rev. Thomas B. Cowan was elected Workers Local No. Federal union, funds spent in 1929, the record president; Rev. Howard Kester, Amerithe affiliated with 20195, general secretary, and Rev. A. can Federation of year. has Labor, The impetus comes from bigger Nightingale, treasurer, the organireached membersubstantial the zation issued statea resounding payrolls, bonuses, extra and speof 1687. cial dividends and Christmas club ment favoring the right of workers ship was It also brought out that, for funds. The latter alone total to organize and bargain the first in the history of the time $355,000,000. Wage increases, bosalmon industry in Alaska, the nuses and dividends amount to workers left for Alaska this year around $1,000,000,000 for the seaWins Burlington Election under union conditions, free from son. A resounding victory for a real the exploitation of contractors, reJobs for 600.000 union over a System Association, sulting in the membership of the The National Retail Dry Goods best known as company union, union $200,000 more association estimated nearly GOO,-0- was achieved by the Brotherhood than earning nearly The union has alformerly. additional workers would be of Maintenance of Way Employes, ways displayed a cooperative athired by stores for the Christmas when employes of the Burlington titude with other unions and in rush together with the regular 4, Railroad voted 3299 to 1636 for turn enjoys the cordial support of union representation. Pacific coast labor in general. 000,000 employes. The association legitimate estimated November and Decem- The election was conducted by the ber retail sales at $6,200,0000,000, National Labor Relations Board. of which nearly $4,000,000,000 wil The Burlington System Division SURE, YOUR be spent for Christmas purchases consists of the Chicago, Burlington Merchants estimated the number & Quincy Railroad and the Quincy, CREDIT IS GOOD! of extra workers which will be re- Omaha & Kansas City Railroad, quired to handle the holiday comprising 9434 miles. The clear-ccrowds will be the largest for any On Goodrich Silver-tow- n victory for the union is being hailed. 1929 since some and widely that in year Tires Electro-Pa- k fields the total will even exceec 1929. Additional thousands of per Gain Week Batteries sons in affiliated industries will a Tacoma, Wash. Following benefit indirectly from the larg- strike Motorola Auto over two months, est spending spree since the de- furniturelasting workers here recently Radios pression. won a smashing victory, along Authorities predicted holiday with upholsterers, engineers and trade this season will show a 15 to building service employes in the GOODRICH 20 per cent gain over 1935 and that its effects will carry well over into SILYERTOWN next year, making a bright start Merry Christmas, Labor STORES for a prosperous 1937. Merchants Optimistic Finance & 2661 Washington Avenue Indicative of the optimism in rePhone 795 Thrift Co. tail trade quarters, wholesale stocks in many lines have been 24-Ho- ur Service 2506 Wash. Ave. Ogden depleted for several weeks and sellers market has developed in some fields as a result of fear on the part of retailers that their orChristmas Greetings to Labor iginal holiday orders were too OWN A HOME small. 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