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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY Coal Miners Meet Condemns Senator King (Continued from page 1) safety precaution." 2. Recommendations to adopt the Wyoming system of hospitalization and physician procedure into contracts with Utah operators. 3. Appointment of a committee to protect the dropping of the department of mine inspection in . Utah and adoption of a resolution the urging appointment of a permanent umpire for labor disputes in Utah, similar , to the system used in Wyoming. Local unions of district No. 22, United Mine Workers of America, were denied the right to call local strikes by a unanimous vote of the delegates. It is the policy of the U. M. W. A. to sign contracts which it has the ability to keep," Albert Roberts, vice president of the district, explained. Officers of the district opposed the motion to grant strike powers to locals, because it was felt such power would impair the power of the district union to maintain its promises." A resolution to permit district officers to grant permission to miners to work in excess of 35 hours a week in case of such an emergency as a coal shortage caused by weather conditions was voted down as contrary to the international constitution, which gives such powers only to international officers. Change Plans The newly elected committees and district officers were empowered to sign the best possible agreement" which could be made with the operators, in conformance with the Appalachian agreement and policies on local conditions decided upon at the convention here. According to the terms of the resolution, adopted on motion of on resolutions committee the scales, terms of the new contract will not have to be referred back to the delegates, as they have been in past years, John M. Ross, president of the district union, explained. Delegates refused power to district officials to permit more than 35 hours work a week in the production of coal during an emergency on the grounds that this authority belonged exclusively to international officials of the U. M. W. A. According to the Appalachian agreement between owners and operators, miners are not permit-te- r to work more than 35 hours a week on the production of coal even if Daid overtime. Albert Roberts, vice president of the district, pointed out. Home Rentals Delegates instructed the scale committee to seek an agreement by which home rentals would be reduced during months in which the men were working part time and for a regulation whereby senior employes would receive priority in returning to work after a shut- LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH f (Continued from Page 4) for Industrial Organization and an intensive drive to complete union organization of the industry is in preparation. Paul M. Ilall of Fairmont, W. Va., was elected vice president of the new C. I. 0. international, and George E. Ilobaugh secretary-treasure- r. f Rubber Workers Since the BOSTON (UNS) Northeastern District o! the United Rubber Workers was' established in October, 1936, the number of charters has increased from nine to tracts, according to a resolution approved at the mominj session. Lauds C. I. (X M. I. Thompson, editor of the Utah Labor News, only paper in Utah printing the official C. I. 0. the delegates news, addressed Wednesday. He cited the gains made by the Committee lor Industrial Organization under the able leadership of John L. Lewts, president of the United Mine Workers of America.. He pointed to the growth of the United Automobile Workers of America since their affiliatin with the C. I. 0. Within a year that organization grew from a few thousand members into the second largdown. est international union in Aimrica. Look at the Amalgamated AsA provision by which local mine committees of Iron, Steel and .Tin sociation repsafety inspection and of workers Workers both operAmerica, Mr. Thompresenting This organization Svas ators would make periodic investi- son said. connew in affiliated with the A. F. of L. for gations will be asked 40 years eight months ago when it joined the C. I. 0. it had 5J00 BEST WISHES TO LABOR dues paying members today with the help of the steel workers organizing committee of the C. I. it has more than 200,000 members, and collective bargaining agreeWholesale Foreign Food Products ments with the largest steel corFulvio Virgin Italian Olive Oil porations in the world. This war all accomplished in eight months. r,i DIRECT IMPORTATION The speaker predicted that un-- j Phone Wasatch 6656 368 So. West Temple der the leadership of the C. I. 0. a Salt Lake City, Utah Columbia, Utah majority of the nations workers would be unionized within the next few years. He claimed the dues paying membership of the one-yeA C. I. 0. affiliate unions is now To United Mine Workers of America, and All old greater than the dues paying memold A. F. bership of the Other Organized Labor of L. Hear Appeals The district executive board ses. . sion, headed by President John M. Ross of Salt Lake City; Vice President Albert Roberts of Rock Springs, and Secretary-TreasurVirgil Wright of CheyLabor, as well as Industry, has a real responsibility and duty held Friday. was enne, and Appeals Labor of to serve the general welfare the welfare Industry, on local unions of decisions from Public. the General Consuming under the district funeral payments In this economic struggle both Industry and Labor must and benefit fund and other grievances were heard. strive unselfishly for the general good. The board also met with a subcommittee of the scale committee to condemn demands and resolutions adopted by the delegates in General Office 315 Atlas Block Sqlt Lake City, Utah convention for presentation to coal Mines Sego, Utah of the two states. The operators scale includes Joe Dowd, Latuda, and A. M. Peterson, Castlegate, Utah, and David B. Gilfillan, Superior, and Ray Maki, Hanna, Wyo. Start Negotiations The scale committee and district officers started negotiations with operators of southern Wyoming and the Union Pacific mines in From the Cheyenne Tuesday. Cheyenne conference they will go to Casper, Wyo., for conference with northern Wyoming operators, then will return to Salt Lake City for similar negotiations with the Utah coal operators. 4 0 7, 1937. 5 31, and the number of members from 2,650 to 9,000. These statistics were released by Thomas F. Burns, vice president of the U. ,R. W., chairman of the New England Council of the C. I. O., and a member of the T. W. O. C., in announcing that the executive board of the U. R. W. will hold a series of meetings in the Northeastern States in the interest of organization. The first such meeting will be in Hoosac Falls, N. Y., at the quarterly conference of the district council, of which Fred Pezzini, of Springfield, is chairman. Burns said that he believed the membership of the U. R. W. in the Northeastern District New England, New York State and New Jersey will be doubled before the convention in September. T. W. O. C. Wins at Providence PROVIDENCE, R. I. (UNS) A per cent wage increase, a 10 40-ho- ur week, and union recognition are provided in the agreement won by the Textile Workers Organiz- ing committee with the American Silk Spinning company, after a strike of the 1200 employes. . Signs With T. W. O. C. ST. LOUIS (UNS) The Textile Workers Organizing committee of the C. I. 0. has reached an agree-- 1 Labor ment with the Lowell Bleachery, Inc., providing for a 10 per cent wage increase, overtime rates, and week. Minimum wages a to production workers have been set at $15.40 for women and $16.50 40-ho- ur for men. Cork Co. Signs PITTSBURGH, Pa. (UNS) An agreement with the Armstrong Cork Co., of Pittsburgh, providing for a substantial wage increase, a 40-ho- week, ur extra wages For Mothers Day, May 9, Call NEWHOUSE Flowers That BOUQUET Please" Member of Florist Telegraph Delivery Res. Phone Hy. 5343 Q. Robinson Newhouse Hotel Wasatch 7556 Frank A BEST WISHES TO LABOR Gordon Creek Coal" F. ANSELMO & COMPANY Union Mined Utahs Super Fuel NOT A CLINKER IN A CARLOAD CITY COAL COMPANY Hyland 3131 1242 South West Temple Hyland 3130 -:- Your Support of the Utah Coal Industry ar 55-ye- Makes Larger Utah Payrolls ar Cooperation . Should Be Your Aim t er Utah When you switch from 24c gasolines GOLDEN EAGLE at 20c, you save 4c on every gallon. The saving immense and most motorists find that they sacrifice absolutely nothing, for the GOLDEN EAGLE octane count Is exactly right for tion at this altitude. every gallon anti-knoc- k Save operathat 4c on every time you fill! km BEST 111 EWEST ABERDEEN CTcoal CHESTERFIELD COAL COMPANY sub-committ- ee PRODUCED BY Th-- Independent Coal & Coke Co. e Is An ABERDEEN DEALER In Your Community L Make a A Popular Rendezvous The most popular rendezvous for the delegates attending the convention was the Eagles club, 402 South West Temple street, where the host, Eric C. Dittman, made them Welcome and saw to it that all were served by efficient union help. Mothers Day, Hay 9 6 Say It with Flowers from 9 There are bargaintrates all day every Sunday and every night aftp 7 p. m. on long distance calls. Both stationlp.station and rates are redued. Enjoy a telephone relavisit with the folks bak home, y tives or friends you seJom see. person-to-perso- n far-awa- Colonial Jflotoer ?ousr e 870 East 9th South Phone Hyland 8191 for overtime work, vacations with pay and other benefits, has been won by the newly organized United Cork Workers, which has applied for affiliation with the Committee for Industrial Organization. The agreement is made with the United Cork Workers and the C. I. 0. jointly. Armstrong Cork recognized the union after 800 out of the 950 to 1000 employes of the company within a week signed a petition asking for membership in the C. I. O. as their chosen agency for collective bargaining. A number of company union representatives, dissatisfied with their previous organization, helped in speeding, up the process of signing. An increase in wages of six cents an hour, over and above the ten per cent increase of March 29, 1937, on all hourly rates, and an in-- ( Continued on Page 6) Whose voice wotld you like to hear? |