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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. APRIL 30. 8 Editorial 1 93 7. ofi TTflie UttaiBrn. UiSJ.Tbojr EPsig News workers of this nation into democratically managed trade unions by in-- i JNfEWS and COMMENT dustries. The A. F. of L. would never have organized these workers, regardless of how fervently they were praying for unionism. (Continued from Page 7) We have reason to predict that at least 20,000,000 American work(Continued from rage 1) ers will be under the banner of ths C. I. O. within the next 10 years. I want him not only to be decent court will approve laws that are worded in a STRAIGHTFORWARD and high minded for decencys sake r, either! and UNDERSTANDABLE way, and not to please me, but to be inoffen- and GUARDIANS OF ORTHODOXY When the President's plan is made law the energy and time o I legislation from (An Editorial from Now, official publication of the Utah National gatJdind works progressive forces can be put to work obtaining this Lawmakers who states. several of the the Plan.) and Prosperity congress legislatures j marveia 0f the universe. I feel prove out of touch with the people WILL HAVE TO BE DISPLACED there is one place he can best that 7 social jcarn thia at the next primaries and elections. This means detailed organization. Whenever a movement designed to ameliorate near-traght mental attitude. I League is making conditions in the United States gives promise of initiating genuine It is a tremendous job, for which the to that my attitude gee t0 try careful preparations, YOUR HELP IS NEEDED! reform the So The People May Know type of newspapers swing into is such that institution that toar(j A. I. Given the Laugh he will sense its importance in our Paradoxically their first action is lack of action. They refrain The supreme court majority found the Associated Press 5et.uns Newsfrom American in the for Watson printing the news. They then seek some microscopic flaw, alleged membership guilty of firing Morris . din that is calculated to , paper Guild, a union for newspaper writers. John W. Davis, Liberty or actual, and proceed to start a clamorous cures, coois ana jvius a movement with new and readythe drown to out the real fire must issues AP the that had provide keep right argued League lawyer, A speaker recently reminded his still-birtanybody it pleased or else it wouldnt continue 'reporting events WITH- made Remember that the keys as of of courtroom heard Such defenders box are the audience, the sheets they in the of things orthodoxy OUT BIAS." As the reporters press anti-labthe to heart are words of a mans not is sudden was a no countenance are. AP that there the right by about sponsored words unctuous ripple change these They of snickers and suppressed Bronx cheers. They nudged each other and people. They exhort their readers to seek advice" from such givers praise and food well served. When who will not disturb occasion calls, feed him and flatter grinned. Some of them had worked for the AP and knew how it ter- of advice as are known to be safe and sane Chiowned or are dominated him. in are Guild members 500 Such economic the out status of newspapers rorized its staff so that Newspaper quo. in a luxurious niche themselves settled have AP on ONE the is financial NOT interests that payroll. by There ja plenty of truth in that cago, for example, Then when the majority opinion, delivered in dry tones, declared in the business and financial system. They serve as watch dogs or statement. Both men and women that Liberty League Lawyer Davis argument for his AP client not sentinels to guard against approach of such unorthodox ones as appear can ma(je t0 gjow n kindiy feej only has no relevance to the circumstances of the instant (present) to have designs on a birth in the favored niche. ling toward the one who gives them case, but is an unsound generalization, there was a renewal of the a sincere word of commendation. . Whenever a demand is made forsome terationntheestabl.sh-Mos- t laughter. It was a bad day for the Associated Press and Mr. Davis. e condemn themselves the d Ifor reemply Two Things the Rich Dont Want so much that a fools eruihjt Pj0!!868!0 being i!r . epatefuHv rp youngsters in high schoo.s and unnersities, keep Since the historic Wagner Act decision of the supreme court the and etc. When someone KdrelFffro radical, dreamer, shriek, "imposter, they on two unanimous mtheiown mental conservative papers have been practically points. proposes to increase the circulating medium they almost tear their kairl .... Their front page headlines and their editorials are shrieking two things: out as they wail, inflation, etc. The first is that the Presidents plan to modernize the court can Their technique is so old it is rusty. Everybody knows the ear-- 1 I And, certain it is that the oppo-marnow be dropped. and can predict with great accuracy what is to come next. It I site of praise criticism has deThe other is that the Wagner Act should be amended to force will be recalled that when the movement for direct election of United vastating effects on the one reunions to incorporate, to outlaw all strikes, and to kill the states senators was stirring the land the cry was that the rabble could ceiving it as well as eventually for gaining clause. The clause puts unions which win a majority vote of not be trusted to determine for themselves the personnel of the sen-- 1 the one giving it. the employes in a strong 'position. Criticism cures, cools and kills, ate. Recall the ballyhoo that sought to destroy the elder La Follette n That shows what the employers are up to now in their Re- - It cures the one who receives it war. out the of America that because insistence his of stay manly schemes. that was visited on A. C. Townley when he I of the obsession that the lips of the The RICH dont want the supreme court reconditioned. They member the interfered with the racket of wheat gamblers in Minneapolis and St. one giving it are sweet. It gradu- -' lose one of their strongest fortresses if it is. aul. And dont forget that newspaper persecution indirectly caused ally cools their love for that And they want the National Labor Relations Act crippled so it to serve ninety days in a Minnesota jail for advocating that if son and if persisted in, kills all wont help LABOR. men were to be conscripted for war, wealth must be conscripted also. kingly thoughts concerning him or JUST ANOTHER REASON why LABOR is working overtime to howl that greeted the demand in Idaho and other j her. Remember the put through the Presidents plan. public guarantee for bank deposits after bank failures had JUST ANOTHER ARGUMENT for standing guard so the enemy states for so common they ceased to be news. And finally, prod youri )ecome wont drive its tanks through the Wagner Act. jjay Never Need It what happened to the mandate of the people memories recall until you The UTAH LABOR NEWS fights for the Presidents plan, and for of Utah in the matter of gurnjng rubbish reminds us that exemption of taxation of homes of a value of the RIGHTS of the PEOPLE a reason why every progressive citizen !;2000 or less. Was there. . . ... , not an insistent ballyhoo stirred up by the . of Utah should be a reader and pay for his subscription to this paper. the express rders f the lafions of interests thwart t0 articles of alue and SK!rLanilaffiliated j taken the lives of dear ones.. . re trout CHANGING TO PRACTICAL UNIONS F a Pn Why are such things done? Why must every step forward be ob-- 1 . s a thing. Fire under a roof structed by the henchmen of the Haves? Why is every advance in to a chimney that need Too much is enough thats how the aluminum workers felt when human betterment fought so savagely by agencies that pose as the ?ue 1S an ev in thing, of the people and of liberty and freedom? Is it because their they finally decided to set up their own industrial union and to affiliate t communities today have the and is because are Is the fictitious? it people always wrong pose with the Committee for Industrial Organization. interests always right ? Or is it because the overwhelming ma-- 1 extent fire fighting apparatus. It To hear the complaints of representatives of the aluminum federa' American newspapers are owned or dominated by forces that- looks much better than the equip-knoof locals of the A. F. of L. at the recent New Kensington, Pa., convention jority no code but win that recognize no need but their own greed y.ears ago. But as far as was to listen to a story that has been repeated again and again in althe individual Biblical having a fire is most every industry and in every state of the United States where the that interpret Christianity and Scripture in the light of one concerned it much better than him isnt from To and him that shall be hath that phrase given, A. F. of L. has, or has had, federal locals. old the 90 cases out of in outfit be which not even shall he hath? taken hath that away, The aluminum workers from the first, wanted to be organized in a hundred. The old outfit kept the maimed old and the Let the the the give reliefers, folks, jobless, one union for their industry. They accepted the federal locals as the nearby buildings from getting afire nearest available substitute, and as a stepping-ston- e to an eventua the answer. and usually thats about all the industrial union in the A. F. of L. They wanted some democracy in their affairs, some chance to work ? thereto?8' ASLEEP LEAVE THEM ALONE out theirown destiny through their own union. But instead of an industrial union, they were given craft union John P. Frey, president of the metal trades department of the A. I The person who has a short raids on their membership. Instead of democracy, they were given the dictatorship of A. F. F. of L., was quoted from Pittsburgh as saying: We are determined memory for his friends failings of L. appointees concerned more with craft claims upon them than with to go forward alone in all the mass industries. As hundreds of thou- - wju have a long period of friendly sands of workers pour into the C. I. O. unions, that aptly describes the satisfactions. promoting organization of their industry. Every time the aluminum workers would build up their organiza-- . plight of the remnant A. F. of L. alone. tion, it would be crushed down by the strait-jackFor too many years has it been content to leave the American i , no . rp, dictatorship of the true national A. F. of L. craftists, who finally went to the to content is worker and more the now American than Worker ,waial)e alone, of the i?i point suspending Yemocracy unless we largest and most successful local, at New Kensington, because of its leave the A. F. of L. alone. to stand for industrial organization. Still living in the horse and buggy days, entirely divorced from the reconipn and A year ago. the federal locals in the radio L worship millions . T1J1J?3 of underpaid industrial and agricultural workers, the Freys, industry took the bit in j President their teeth, as the aluminum workers are doing now. They set up the the Greens, the Hutchinsons and the Wolls have been intent on main-It- .. industrial union which the A. F, of L. had so long denied them. Under taining the artificial lines of an outworn craft unionism so that their Roosevelt. A. F. of L. craftist dictatorship, they were weak and divided. Today, ease and comfort be undisturbed. It takes work and courage to oras an industrial union of the C. I. O., the United Electrical and Radio ganize in the face of the vicious attacks of the bosses and their tools Utah Received Workers, is recognized by General Electric and other giants of the elec- of the law. trical world, and is well on the way to complete organization of its inMillions From U. S. What matter that fifty per cent and more of working class famdustry. ilies were living in want and destitution? What difference that agriNow the aluminum workers are Utah received $38,696,586 during putting behind them the divisions cultural workers were forced into conditions of coolie labor? Why and disunity of craftist control. Thev are off, with the C. I. O., to orthe slave-driveas financial and industrial period April 8, 1935, to March increase the the worry speed ganize all the aluminum workers of the country into a single powerful up and drain the workers of every vestige of manhood Leave us 31, 1937, according to a report reindustrial union. ceived by Allen T. Sanford, state alone! said these gentlemen. The editor of the Utah Labor News is glad to see the advancement director for the National EmergenWere we rapidly approaching the slave conditions of ancient Rome made in an undivided industrial unionism. .Had it not been for the and Greece and Egypt and the brutal exploitation of the Roman and cy Council. wrecking crews of the A. F. of L. craftists Utah would have had more Grecian and This information is based upon Egyptian slaves, the workers of those days ? Were feudal the than a hundred federal locals of the A. F. of L. in as many Utah towns, report showing the financial conditions being instituted in America, of lord and master crushing with a membership of more than 10.000 in 1933. status of funds provided in the he serfs and the feudal workers of the Was bondsmen, society? every The editor of the Utah Labor News had mapped out a campaign g of the individual Emergency Relief Appropriation to organize a federal local in each Utah town of 500 or more popula- ideal of the fraternity of man and the Acts of 1935 and 1936, as of March shattered by a ruthless and profit-craze- d oligarchy of wealth? 31, 1937. tion, where no other unions existed. As soon as the campaign was )eing Expenditures incurred What concern of ours? said the aristocrats of labor Leave us in under way the A. F. of L.. craftist wrecking-crew- s from the the Works program prosecuting alone! Salt Lake Labor temple became active to destroy what had been built totaled $34,933,018, leaving unexFrom factory and farm, from city and town, from Maine to Calup. balances of pended $3,763,568. Splendid federal locals were started in Logan, Smithfield, Brigham ifornia, north and south, from the masses of workers in steel and rubber The report shows that $16,636,-44- 1 City, Richfield, Monroe, Lewiston, and several other towns, bait even and autos and aircraft, in cotton plantations and fruit orchards and has been expended for personal rice fields from every mass production industry in the country, an before the charters were set up the wrecking crews, led by the now services; $3,247,998 for supplies editor-in-chiclamor arose, Give us proper organization so that we and of the monthly circular, ownership for which is $814,380 for rent; materials; claimed by the state federation of labor and the building trades coun- can fight for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They heard $775,995 for construction and cil. were following up to split the organization into crafts. Cant you see we are asleep The re- nothing, these A. F. of L. leaders for $9,721,601 maintenance; sult of these raids was that the organizaion was either killed outright eave us alone! contractual for $1,048,996 grants; But now, as the ranks of the C. I. O. are swelled daily by thousands service; $605,121 for or left struggling vTith merely enough members to hold a charter. equipment President Green and other craftists wanted an organization drive in of workers, our worthy friends suddenly come to life. A great noise purchased, and $2,003,017 for Utah, but after it was under way they were afraid it would bring is seard from Green and Frey and their ilk of great deeds to be done loans. about the ernnity of the established craft unions, especially in the build- and great efforts expended to still organize into craft unions to Types of work carried out with ing trades in Salt Lake City and. therefore, they would not give proper still divide the American workers and the refrain is the same Well these funds show the following backing for the organization drive. The natural consequence was that go forward alone. classifications and expenditures: it was given up as a bad iob under these peculiar circumstances. As, the 40,000,000 producers of hand and brain are organized into Highways, $5,628,500; public The editor of the Utah Labor News was rebuked for trvin" to orheir democratic industrial unions under the banner of the C. I. O. and buildings, $2,379,227; recreational ganize the unorganized workers of Utah. And true to the A. F. of L. the struggle for economic freedom and against industrial and financial facilities, $1,826,723; sewerage syscraftist tactics, the leader of the wrecking crew was elevated to mem- ;vrarny goes forth on all fronts with ever increasing tempo, the Greens, tems, $1,151,165; educational projbership of the executive council of the state federation. he Freys, the Hutchinsons and the Wolls will find themselves as they ects, $1,891,317; rural resettlement, Knowing as we do the craftist tactics of the A. F. of L. we are desire, stewing in the gloom of their own company COMPLETELY $2,341,153; grants to Utah for re, mighty glad that the C, I. O. is in the field to organize the unorganized ALONE. lief, $5,176,455. THROWS A HONE TO TRADE UNIONS five-to-fou- I ! te r. 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