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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY. FEBRUARY 26, 1937 4 Icise tax on imports of copper will only to bring or-- 1 automatically expire unless it is ganization to the unorganized mass eluded in the new revenue bill All you need to do is to take note of the persons in Utah who are (Continued from lage i) production workers. Organized la- - which is under consideration by opposing President Koosevelts court reform plan, and then use your tj,ejr imagination. Consequently, tor cannot survive long, except as congress. Decause of the abund-ow- n skeleton or a fossil, unless there ance of cheap copper abroad, con- judgment. frequently receive lying In the opposing ranks in leadership are the lawyers for corpora-- 1 employers ac-i- ? union organization of mass produc-- 1 tinuation of this protection for the of anj horrifying reports tion tions and special interests, G. 0. P. opponents of Roosevelt, Liberty I tivitics workers. domestic industry is essential to in their factories. And League sympathizers, and those who have already stood as barriers to Jhn Frey, president its future welfare, labor spy agenevery Practically the advancement of the people of Utah. the Metal Trades Department Because the excise tax on cy also operates possibly under Enough said!. a strikebreaking0 the A. F. of L., Martin contiq-- 1 copper has prohibited the impor-- I another name d, wants to be on the side ofjtation of foreign cheaply-produce- d agency. One concern engages in General Motors, let him go that I copper since its enactment in 1932, both activities and, in addition, the domestic industry is now on way used be to sells gas and munitions And if Bill Green wants to go I the threshold of prosperity and, if Jin arbitrating workers grievances. Those who have eyes to see, ears to hear, and a nose to smell with, Most labor spies are merely rats that way, he can go along, too, this prosperity is to be continued, do not necessarily need be radicals to realize the fact that times arelwho work under cover of secrecy, the stocky industrial unionist de-- 1 protection of the United States copper industry must be changing and mighty fast to the recognition of the American work- - A select corps is composed of kill-- 1 I dared. The meeting unanimously passed tained. ers and farmers, both economically and politically. but the and frame-u- p jers artists, It is remembered that not so long ago our great business men, in- - majority are just plain sneaks who relations supporting the strike. I For the first time in years many Martin said Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., miners are able to earn their livdustrial employers and financial dictators were the acknowledged lead- - do nothing more dangerous than ers in the development of our nation. But in their selfishness they led write inflammatory reports and I head of the General Motors, ing instead of depending for their America mostly in the old way of ruthless and rugged individualism. sjgn them with a code number, weeps crocodile tears over the sit- - subsistence on government relief. And for this they were enormously rewarded in political prestige and More strikebreakers, however, are dwn strike. The copper camps are again active Sloan has said in effect, To and a new vitality is in evidence financial return. They even became social lions. vicious criminals. Recruited from But now we are in a new era, and these monarchs of industry and I the underworld, the majority of hell with democracy if it inter-- 1 on all sides. I feres with Sloans power. finance must mend their ways or capitalism may tumble into a bot-- 1 them have vicious records, In order that this prosperity may I tomless pit. The senate committees list of I .. Just think of a situation, Mar- I continue, extension of the import a noolninl mi NEWS AND COMMENT hi5,'idiS(! I 1 over least less fortunate to tighten their belts and starve if need be. They have where a check-u- p has failed to dis- - head. Weve said, All right, get found that men will no longer starve quietly and that the old leader- - close long criminal records. Yet your chopping axe out. This is a means both colossal taxes and possible social upheaval. these are the men that employers battle between the autocrats, tor- Foreign trade has largely stopped. We cannot keep factories go- - hire to defeat justified demands of pcs. and gigolos of Wall Street and ing by dumping goods on the foreigner, nor can the farmer, by doing their workers. Men like the notor- - the democracy of America. remain a customer for the manufacturer. lious Chowderhead Cohen withal. They are trying to set up lawj American labor is wanted; or not to have one, which will benefit p eign indentured and peon labor, foreign governments and foreign capitalists. Shall the employment of Ameri- for-shi- raising pie them how strong we were I The Utah Labor News made a haps business can be saved only by benefitting and not exploiting the penitentiary and two states pris-6homasses. If they dont see it, it will be too bad for them. by our membership cards. They valiant fight for the excise tax in 0ns. The problem of a more equitable division of the profits of industry bound us up by an injunction three 1932. It will make a senate the committee, for its Although has ceased to be a patriotic, religious or humanitarian one, and has I headed by La Follette, has un-- 1 times when we wranted them to I continuance in 1937, fight I become the practical one of assuring any profits at all. earthed a multitude of damaging I hey the Wagner Act. Now they I Lets keep our own miners It is not necessary to point out that the leaders of the American I facts against spy and strikebreak- want an election of the sort that working, and at increased wages, I men and women outside the I labor movement and progressive-minde- d , it has merely scraped they will set up, supervise agencies labor movement, have been saying something about the , new era we the surface would be a trag-l1are reaching, for a good many years. It is gratifying to note that a edy if its workIt were stooped now. They talk about obeying the few business leaders are beginning to have a keen appreciation of the And there law. it that Theyre strangers to that js grave danger will be stopped unless the people srt of thing. They have bought S1uami.n . . This situation boldly challenges the iniquities of the old order. I make themselves heard S against P lawyers, judges, police and all v brothe? TcvP,? eT,to d This editorial is written as a warning to the business men, so that that possibility. else for so long they dont know J they may realize that the masses of our people are weary of exploita-- 1 what law is. They now cry Give ta1.for thl5 gramophone, and lm see which of em gets tion. And, because the majority of our big business leaders are ap- lf.uous us back our proyerty. I The American Way We thought that when they it. parently just as greedy and just as stupid as they were before the crash of October, 1929. What the real American way is wer(? buying all that tear gas, ma- If the producers and consumers are to become economically in-- 1 was demonstrated by Eternal Feminine chine guns and other munitions of dependent they must prepare to do the job themselves. Farmers and Mrs. Rebecca Goddard when sheWar, which we expect to be shown He And so you think women industrial workers must organize and cooperate to defend their inter- joined the picket ; line at Flint, j by congressional investigation, have great strength of mind? Do ests. There is no other way out. Mich., in front of Fisher Body that they were, for the you think that any woman would preparing plant No. 1. now we have do as Caesar did and refuse a plague they say Mrs. Goddard,. - a groat-S:ranthem. crown? brought upon THE FORGOTTEN MAN mother, lives m Clio, Mich., but1 She I think so. Of course, she decided to do her bit for the workCopper Excise Tax might try it on and see how it President William Green of the American Federation of Labor ers, among whom are nine or more In June, this year, the ex- - looked rushed into print on the day of the auto strike settlement to declare of her own relatives. that the whole labor movement had been injured and that the settle I just came down from Gio to ment represented a complete surrender of all major demands. show some of my neighbors, she As regards the closed shop principle, the defeat is complete, said said. There are a lot of sitdown BEST WISHES TO UTAH LABOR Mr. Green. You grouches up there in Clio. The San Francisco Labor Action notes that it would be hard to dont know what sitdown grouches find any person in the entire range of American life who is less are? Why people who entitled to criticize the auto agreement. It was Greens A. F. of L. dont believe theyre in the union. which accepted the infamous 1934 auto labor board and agreed to Asked whether she really was a elections in the individual plants which rivalled Hitlers best efforts. Mrs. Goddard Optometrists The consequences of that complete surrender was very nearly fatal to said emphatically: the young and struggling auto workers union. Certanly! I have six children, 71 SOUTH MAIN It was again Greens organization which maintained a virtual ;wenty WASATCH 4395 grandchildren and about over auto the dictatorship workers, refusing for many months to allow tert great - grandchildren. My them to have any voice in the selection of their own officers or their youngest son, Robert, is in that own policies. The result was a steadily dwindling union and the creilant right now. ation of dozens of independent and company unions in the industry. In addition to Robert, the Still Mr. Green has the gall to talk of the need of solidarity of all picket said there were At Your Service Night or Day labor in America. several grandchildren and nephews Throughout the recent strike, Green pulled every string and vio- there with him. lated every fundamental of labor ethics to weaken, and if possible destroy organized labors support of the auto workers. General Motors Let Them Help G. M. chief argument against the closed shop principle was that they must In Cleveland, Ohio, representa- deal with minorities among their employes. Although Greens craft tives of 90 trade practicalunions have never made any headway in the auto industry, he publicly ly all of them A. unions, F. of L., and 116 seconded every corporation statement with a demand that craft rights civic organizations, packed the be protected. This is the Green version of solidarity. public hall to hear Homer Martin Protection of such an aristocracy of labor as Green, Frey, Hutche- excoriate the General Motors offison, et al, at the expense of the working class as a whole leads inev- cials and John P. Frey, as well as g Convenient tactics. While the Committee for William Green, A. F. of L. itably to anti-lab, Safe Industrial Organization throws its whole power into the most vital dent, for attempts to frustratepresithe economic campaign that American labor has ever undertaken the or- unionization of the auto industry. ganization of the mass production industries the work of Green and There was no desire on the part his litte group of craft reactionaries is reduced to mudslinging. of the C. I. O. to destroy any The kept press still gives these statements space, but in the Martin said, functioning union, real struggles of the working class there is no room for William Green amidst the shouts of approval from and his associates of the Frey, Hutcheson, et al, type. As a matter of truth Green and his associates are secretly making a A it their principal business to aid and abet 'the enemies of workers. WE SHIP BY RAIL Instead of spending money for the upbuilding of the American labor movement they are spending money to send emissaries throughout LABOR MISTER UNION MAN the country to form combinations with open shop employers, so as to make it harder for workers in industry to organize and reach collective Buy Your 1937 bargaining agreements. These emissaries have visited Utah and other western states. We can name them. 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