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Show i Jevs and Comment! r. - ' Review oil Current Eventoxil"':'' f MAU o Ur m. 1. 1. , & J . -- ?... ' EDUCATE Liberties ORGANIZE Excerpt from a new story in Time Wednesof York New the COOPERATE day, Febuary 17, concerning the Senate Civil Liberties Investigation: After an exchange of ideas about the merits of espionage. VOL VII; NO. 35 Senator Thomas (Utah) told the General Motors officials: The point, of course, that Is of great interest to me is that a corporation like General Motors , has spent thousands and thousands of dollars trying to perfect' the AND LET, THE LEAGUE HAVE A COPY engineering skill of their employes and make money by so doing, When you write your congressman and senators on this The thought has occurred to t court business, send a copy to Labors supreme i me that probably if a they spent Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C. League, to little bit of money trying bring '' about a knowledge of industrial re Congress is tired of hearing from the boiled shirts and top hats. It wants to know what the real people of this country are lations and labor relations profits thinking about judicial dictatorship. would flow as the result of that And the League wants to knotfr what the real people are too. expenditure, em. So let the League have a copy. telling Now, it is not for us to sug of course, anything ' gest directly, of that kind, but I know, and you stop judicial dictatorship! know, that when two rights clash fend strife this SENATE HEARINGS you have strife never pays. In an international xr n Udi irlAKLIi sense war is just simply a clash- I ing of rights and, in the sense of Hearings on President Roosevelt's supreme court reform CivU SUPREME COURT , L . Non-Partis- an I I inrir J "I s- - In either case if you will Judiciary dis- - ,3?.2) '" luy-Marc- be(0" ,he h s'na'' . It is important that all senators, and particularly those on cover some medium that will over-- 1 come that clash you will save tre- - the Judiciary committee, should have YOUR INDORSEMENT mendous loss, because, in war, we of S ,392 before then. The foniythde of the committee is Henry F. Ashurst o pXilegef StiSg around c!"rn,a" I he other members are: William H. King of Utah Arizona. a table and discussing things and, in strikes, you accomplish nothing Matthew M. Neely of West Virginia; Frederick Van Nuys o else but thatyou fight for the Indiana; Pat McCarran of Nevada; M. M. Logan of Kentucky itVS William H. Dieterich of Illinois; George McGill of Kansas; Car A. Hatch of New Mexico; Edward R. Burke of Nebraska; Key over with. In each case you have Pittman of Nevada; Tom Connally of Texas; Joseph C. OMa- loss. dead a So let us save the money that honey of Wyoming; William E. Borah of Idaho; George W. comes out of the peoples taxes to . 8lop protect us from threatening let--. ters by passing that responsibility on to the government itself and let PUBLISHER STIRS us 8&V6 money, if we esn, for rest of us, by trying to find the UP HOML-MAD- L route or course, to use Mr. Hales tiiy 70x11 mouvi expression, to avoid these clashes of these two rights. Well, well, sentiment throughout the land is "rising to a Evidence that the labor spies tumult against President Roosevelts proposal to alter the su employed by Chrysler were mvesti-- 1 S re P or.ts the Associated Press m wiring Pub- gated by the Pinkertons was PrIeracout' lisher Frank E. Gannett s remarks at Rochester, n Labor's League has also noticed a tumult, but of it of favor in Bill reform, except for a few reaction- judicial jail Neutrality Senator Elbert D. Thomas has aries. Publisher Gannett's rising tumult. seems largely synthetic, e introduced the only American happens to be a DIRECTOR OF THE ASSOCIATEE1 selfish not Is which bill trality . p RESS. This may have nothing to do with how his home-mad- e yarns get on the wires. He is the OWNER OF 19 NEWSPA- Worid ' The writer.Clark M. Eichelber-- 1 PERS in four states.. He has made himself chairman anc treasurer of what he calls the National Committee to Upbolc ger, in a discussion, Vhat About Neutrality, Socharacterizes Sen-- 1 Constitutional Government. AncLheJias put.out aeJtenive.jnaailing--to4he,right.xof The nma sJ resolution- of course of five pieces of literature. The literature is the or senate before pie house, the several sort. It includes petitions to Best knowh are the Pittmann bill, money-begginpressure-buildin- g the bill of Senator Clark of Mis-- 1 congress, printed pledges to be signed for organizing lobbies, I I . Tin SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH., Green Applesauce I. Or Sour Graj By LEN DK CAUX There has been little dispo: on the part of C. 1. O. and union leaders to argue with liam Green and his the anti-labpress on the come of the General Motors m The right of free speech, all, includes the right to voicepal-pabl- e absurdities and to expose a complete ignorance of the furts in any given case. Against such an exercise of this right, argument often seems superfluous. Green has broadcast to the press a formal statement that the strike settlement is a surrender in a very large way because the sole bargaining agency demand was completely abandoned in the final settlement; because "no direct agreement was signed by the management of General Motors and the representatives of the United Automobile Workers; and because there is nothing in the letters exchanged . , . meaning recognition of the closed shop principle. When the agreement was signed between General Motors and the U. A. W., the court room where the cerenonv took place was so crowded with photographers that you could hardly move an inch in without knocking any direction over a tripod or jostling a kneeling, standing or swearing picture-takeAll newsreel companies were represented with a steady grinding, and reporters of the countrys press recorded every squeak of the pen with which the document was signed and every expression of the signers. (Continued on page 4) co-thi- or r. 1 Political Outlook Non-Partisa- In Utah and U. S. Neu-lj-J- Compiled From Reports of Observers AfSfo Jefferson Memorial I . -- . is-on- o. e J g, Utahns may come and go is and out of Washington, D. C., but there w bps. name wilLhe .caryei in marble to endure forever in the shrine of the man wiom he openly is-)- -- Price; :H 5, 1937. 5 Cent Per Copy 0. Union and Steel Industry Spring a Surprise Special to Utah Labor News. PITTSBURGH (UNS) Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers and the steel industry sprung the biggest surprise in the history of organized labor and American big industry when collective bargaining pacts were signed by the steel workers union and the chief unit of the giant United States Steel Corporation. Philip Murray, chairman of the steel workers organizing committee of the Committee for Industrial Organization, made the first announcement of the forward step taken this week. A preliminary contract was signed by Benjamin F. Fairless, presiSteel Corporation, the biggest unit of the dent of the Camegie-Illinoi- s U. S. Steel. It affects 120,000 workers. It grants a minimum wage work week. of $5 a day and a The contract recognizes the C. I. 0. union of steel workers as the sole bargaining agency. The pact will bring into the Amalgamated all of the 550,000 workers employed in the steel industry. 40-ho- ur Steel Union and Employers Meet to Negotiate Wages Special to Utah Labor News. Phillip Murray, chairman of the steel workers organization committee for the Committee for Industrial Organization, reported to the Union News Service the biggest news of the new year, when he said Steel Corporation the union representatives and the Camegie-Illinoi- s opened wage and hour conferences at Pittsburgh. Mr. Murray, who has been directing the steel workers organization drive from Pittsburgh for the past six months, reports that within a short time all of the 650,000 workers in the steel mills will be working under collective bargaining agree- - ficials 'f the new jodge forme ments, and as members of the there. Steel Workers' union, an affiliate Burn Money Boxes of the C. I. O. Steel comThe Camegie-Illinoi- s Wage Increases pany, to show that their company Ten cents an hour wage increas- unions are financed by the workes were announced by the Republic ers, set up a defense committee to Steel Corporation, the Youngstown save the company union plan by Sheet and Tube company, the In- asking the employes for contribuland Steel company, and the Beth- tions. But the workers shun this lehem Steel company. fake defense" of a fake union and The National Steel Corporation many mills have flatly refused to announced many of its employes to go along with the committee. To would receive a $5 daily minimum show how popular this move is, a wage. meeting called by the defense comThe new wage rates go into ef- mittee at Youngstown, could show fect March 16, together with time only 38 men present in the hall. and a half pay for all time over In the Gary (Ind.) plant, the 40 hours a week. money boxes where contributions Uniform Scale were to be deposited were burned. is w placed Mr. Murray and other represen Now a - r - watch r ' tatlves of the Steel uniondeclayfec around them. 4 in workers With the campaign on in full that majority of the steel have been unionized, and that swing in the United States, Canabefore the collective bargaining dian mills are also pushing the agreements have been concluded drive and are making preparations there will be signed agreements to have about 30 mills represented between the union and the entire at the international convention. steel industry for uniform hours Bring Liberty In the Chicago area, business for and wage schedules, and recognition of the union as the sole collec- the Steel Workers Organizing tive bargaining agency in the in- committee is moving so fast that the personnel finds it hard to keep dustry. 24-ho- ur r- , worships. The Utahn is United States Sen on ator Elbert D. Thomas. The shrine t.r l! afd COn8r"rniinrflMaCTnpr?M E. Gan- - s that of Thomas Jefferson, whose the house. The resolution of Sen- - tom m big memorial will go under construe ator Thomas gives power to the nett. 1. Senator Thomas tion No wonder Chairman and Treasurer and Publisher and vice May n chairman of the Thomas AP Director Gannett sees sentiment rising to a tumult." OK, Memorial commission, first under officer in this organization Frank, stir well before using I Congressman Boylan of New York, judicial .stop Flock to Union At Cleveup with developments. who is chairman. esis the Unionism Association rapidly land, being Amalgamated SORRY, BUT Senator Thomas is peculiarly tablished in the steel industry. signed a contract with the Ferro for a high post in connec There is nothing that can stop us Enamel company fitted News to Labor Utah IN THE for Special providing ion the Jefferson memorial with declared. SAN FRANCISCO The Tom raises of between 15 and 18 wage now, Murray am life the dis reverence for Mooney habeas corpus proceeding UUiiS 111 Throughout the entire steel area per cent. The agreement also proworth of the pioneer Democrat is workers in the California supreme court is have been flocking by the vides for full recognition of the IT IS TRUE THAT THE testimonial to the fact that thousands into the union union and time and tens of for marching steadily toward a cH- - DOES NOT EXPRESSLY GRANT TO THE SUPREME aman may attain high place ana during the past few weeks. overtime. 25SaP3 wLn hero a still be FEDERAL and RIGHT COURT TO worshipTHE INVALIDATE lonor (to kill) the date At Gary, Ind., more than 1,500 The C. I. O. union victory in the per himself, and still, however auto industry brought added en- steelworkers packed the hall at a peptions to the referees findings STATUTES UPON THE GROUND THAT THEY ARE be be submitted by the counsel CONSTITUTIONAL U. S. Senator Frederick Van Nuys of ligh his own standards may of thusiasm into the steel areas. It meeting recently to listen to Van ideals the and emulate study the court time this At for Mooney. proved to steel workers that indus- Bittner, regional director of the S. Indiana on the air February 16. Mr. Van Nuys is opposed to another great man. is ready to recognize and deal W. O. C. is expected to set a date for argu-- 1 , The day after Senator Thomas try supreme court reform, We want to make Gary an unions. with ment, and a decision should be spoke on the existing supreme judicial Mr. Murray said the present American city where American forthcoming shortly thereafter, court controversy, an elderly man, Bittner probably early in March. The Cal- campaign in the steel industry is Ideas of liberty prevail, MISS accepted as the best living author- being pushed to a quick comple- said. "Gary no longer will be court is d ifornia supreme expected ity on Thomas Jefferson, approach- tion. to adopt the referees findings as OUT ON THE by the U. S. Steel Co. ed in Thomas Senator Washington, Kill Fake Unions conclusive, and therefore refuses to wr with emotion. 1 11A W release Mooney on the habeas cor-- 1 Workers Steel Organizing The Many Agreements Your speech was wonderful committee is the finishing to John Brophy, dipus application. The country is being snowed under in a blizzard of straw Senator, According putting he declared. You more touches to its of I. O., it is C. rector drive, the organizing silk on suPreme court reform. All the ermine robes and noJhingeyfr?m the than any one else have the spirit to note that without much fuss one fake union after anJote are causing of Jefferson. Your address was other to switch over to the Amal- - the steel union has voting, some or them several times, just as they preme court so they will not be opened negotia- The case has been ed" Mr. Landon last fall. LETS DO OUR PART IN THIS plendid. Association of Iron, Steel tions and has been recognized in gamated (Continued on page 2) some cases by closed shop contract DONT MISS YOUR CHANCE TO and Tin Workers. prepared throughout on the theory STRAW VOTING that ultimately it would have to CAST A STRAW BALLOT WHEN YOUR NEWSPAPER in 17 different steel companies, According to Van Sweeney, the be carried to the United states S. W. O. C. publicity man, 53 com- some large and some small. I LEGISLATIVE NOTES POT qqjsj DUCTS A It is now rather definitely ese supreme court. pany union representatives from judicial dictatorship! stop Legislative Pardon the mills in the upper Ohio valley tablished throughout the country Was Smiling to the S. W. O. C. that the show down in the steel inMeanwhile, on still another front ABRAHAM LINCOLN SAID: Charles Ramey recently bolted Representative the battle is - being waged for Mr. Brophy same time At the they adopted dustry is on now, Somebody has to reverse that decision (Dred Scott slave case in of Salt Lake was all smiles y com- said. the Steel is adresolutions Mooneys freedom. A measure, 1857) and WE MEAN TO REVERSE IT. If the policy of the governcondemning management and Saturday. It was because accorda in a as farce, union jointly signed by 27 members of ment upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irre-- 1 his sham, circles, mitting private pany important IL B.' 5 passed the the California assembly, has been insult to steel workers. ing to well informed government vocably fixed by decisions of the supreme court in ordinary litigation senate by a vote of 15 to 6, with and an said introduced at the present session between that much, they pledg- officials, that the steel workers HAVE WILL laving in personal actions, the PEOPLE three absent. This is the plumb- ed of the legislature, providing for an CEASED parties themselves to go back to their organizing committee is really doextent BE OWN to THEIR TO that pracin bill the RULERS, of interest health having ing immediate and complete legislative fellow workers and immediately ing the job of organizing the steel tically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent and sanitation. take pardon for Mooney. As their au- tribunal. steps to set up local lodges. workers. Mr. Ramey worked hard for the It is predicted that the entire thority for such a measure, the Four company union representabill to steer it through the house, judicial stop dictatorship of steel legislators point to certain sections the tives at industry will be working un-- ( Aliquippa plant and then through the senate, where Constitution DOESNT HAVE TO BE A BASEBALL NINE ofof the California elected & Continued on page 3) were Laughlin the Jones which they are convinced substanPresident Roosevelts proposal that congress increase the number he had good ofcooperation under Senator Wendell leadership tiate their power to pardon. Lead- of supreme court justices to not more than 15 is opposed by some Grover Salt of Lake. is in sacred CONSUMERS COOPERATIVES ARE the of nine is sort a of the the number, total assembly who that think fight present ing Paul Ritchie of San Diego, while as on a baseball team. .MAKING RAPID PROGRESS IN UTAH Room 800 Senator Culbert Olson of Los AngBut the number of justices has not always been nine. Congress Around lobbies the legislative forces then 1789. the in is six court eles with Mooney started the supreme Congress directing justices we sometimes hear more 'than we in the upper house. (Senator Ol- changed the number from time to time. in New Jersey Members of the Utah Consum- tory established read son is a former Utahn.) The American Guide, a government publication, says (Washing- aroundin the newspapers,of and it is ers Cooperative Association met some six months ago. Additional the third floor the state A public hearing on the measure ton City & Capital): All the increases in the membership of the at the 12th and 13th ward house cooperative factories will be estabwill probably be held in Sacra- court are recognized by historians to have been MOTIVATED EITHER capitol we have heard a considerable 800 room February 24 in regular monthly lished to supply consumers coopwhisperings about mento some time in March, at LARGELY OR WHOLLY BY THE POLITICAL CONSIDERATION to hear reports of the eratives in the near future, he preat downtown a meeting certain hostelry. which time the legislators will OF DILUTING A PREVAILING TENDENCY IN THE COURT. cooperatives are making dicted. be This room to is an progress open reported sneak on the measure and demand stop dictatorship judicial Mr. Brown said that before 1937 in Utah and elsewhere in the Unithouse those wish who for legislators the where that justice be done REFORM into history he expects a COURT ed FAVORS LEADER CATHOLIC States. passes ROMAN to be entertained by corporation courts of California have failed. York New foundation will be laid for a coopof Brown social the on Roman Catholic The noted Right renresentatives. Benjamin problems, expert Should the measure pass, it would He erative the favors was the plant in manufacturing Catholic speaker. A. of Rev. a when principal John Washington, University, representaRyan Invariably, be a.rebuke to the narrow and bigcoUtah. consumers need so said of He the stressed court reform tive votes the senator or a by legislation. corporaoted attitude of the California Presidents planto for supreme Manager Kirkham reported that the Manchester (N. II.) City Club on Washingtons tions wav, it is immediately noised operatives and patronage by these in an address supreme court. More than this, the association market is receiving of associations coming 800 room around products had that has however, it would be the people of birthday. beincreased patronage weekly. law into from enacted the solon. its influence wants cooperatives. Presidents on the producers the program Father chosRyan the state who. through their amendment should The speaker explained the prinBe as it may, influence or no Joseph A. Andersen, president, en representatives, had righted this cause immediate action is necessary. After that an of a cooperative clothing fac- - was in charge of the meeting. on Page 2) on page 3) ciples (Continued (Continued frightful wrong. SSd,Wta . Jef-J'erso- IT I AINT ArcrrTrriUllUli one-ha- lf Suary UN-mu- st I . DONT SP dom-nate- vrtTI? SrniX elect-disappointe- d. 1 Fri-!da- A |
