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Show intjuitr r.rirjtPfirfr of KLeview ofi Current 3f.Jl AY v'V, V N 2 4 1937 jULLX JLJL&3 OT EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL VII; NO. 46. Price: 5 Cents Per Copy XT LAKE CITY, UTAH. MAY 21. 1937. (UPRERflE Judicial Stop courar Dictatorship &$ By M. I. T. THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA DEMAND FEDERAL JUDICIAL REORGAN.' 'tf.'ION Despite the efforts of fascistically inclined ec Me EDITORIAL News and Comment roy AMERICAN LABOR alists, big business organizations and statesmen of tm . action ary caliber such as Utahs senator, William H. King, there is a need of reorganization of the federal judiciary, and, no doubt, it will be reorganized. More than 27,000,000 American voters are backing the court program of President Roosevelt, and they expect congress to act during this session. Even the supreme court justices, at least one of them are beginning to back away from their previous unyielding attitude e and to cease standing in the path of human progress. A bare majority of the nine judges are now willing to concede that laboring men and women have some rights, that legislatures are clothed with some authority to enact laws for the benefit of the majority, and that the court is grossly exceeding its own powers four-squar- when it attempts to shrow such measures upon the legislative scrap heap. In fact, confronted by an aroused and outraged public opinion that is no longer willing to tolerate arbitrary missuse of power, the supreme court actually reversed its own position in upholding the minimum-wag- e law for the state of Washington. The effect of that statute is almost beyond belief. It means that in the future, when a state wishes to curb sweatshop em- - THE CENTER OF Gaining by Giving tension. makes for Retention HAS SHIFTED TO THE C. I. O. Tension makes for nerve and bodA ily disorders of many types. person who is out to make the most of his life will have the long range The center of gravity of the American Labor movement view of what he will think of the has shifted in recent months from the American Federation of program he followed when, nearing the end of the trail, he looks back. Labor to the Committee for Industrial Organization. The vigor and the modern organizational forms and poliWe are being told by life exwill he of that kinds cies of the C. I. O. have attracted to it the unorganized. The many perts not only be glad that he eliminated letters C. I. O. have become a symbol of hope to millions who the crowding tumor of avarice but F. of L also that he learned to give of him- know little and care less about the A. The C. I. O. has concentrated on organizing the unorganizj self to others. One of the most poignant of re- ed. It has not concerned itself with winning over existing ungrets is to have lost friends who ions. Yet its very concentration on the constructive work of might have been held in a world unionization is having effects which were not its first design. where true friendships are so rare. Many unions of the A. F. of L now find whole groups of To make and hold friends one must workers refusing to link up with them until be willing to give of himself. newly-organize- d which is become something Friendship they part of the C. I. O. grows from the fusion of kindred As to the federal unions of the A. F. of L in souls. industries, the attraction of the C. I. O. is becoming irreMany folks have been accredited smart who lacked the ability, the sistible. The aluminum federal unions have already formed the generosity to win their own industrial union and affiliated with the C. I. O., and friends. similar developments are under way among distillery workers We want our children to be hapand half a dozen other groups of federal unions. py. Durable happiness and abidIn A. F. of L unions where the officials have been friendly ing satisfactions come from true we to the C. I. O., they find themselves under increasing pressure friendships. Whether or not us to children send our college let to line up definitely in the C. I. O. camp. Union leaders who see that they learn the art of be- are hostile to the C. I. O. find themselves threatened with mass ing gracious, interested in others' ideas, plans in others welfare. In revolt. short let us teach them the simple, Vigorous growth is everywhere a source of attraction while of being generous technique (Continued on page 7) friendly. By being generous, gracious, thoughtful and kind to others they PIE-CARD may occasionally be taken in by the weazel minded, the hard and unscrupulous. But by failing in these arts of friendliness they will be taken in by the arch enemy of Joneliness. happiness, In the past, labor troubles have usually consisted of disWhen the churches have taught be us to generous of our time, tal agreements between employers and unions. In the future, some (Continued on page 3) of our labor troubles may be the fruits of a remarkable phenommass-producti- self-contr- NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE FATALITY CHART on ol, CRAFTISTS TRY TO MAKE TROUBLE i self-center- ed enon disagreements between captains of rival labor unions. craft union ofOn the one side will be arrayed the Political Outlook I. O. C. will the side be ficials, and on the other representatives In who believe in organization of all unorganized workers accordUtah and U. S. d ing to industries. In fact it will be a fight between craftists against the working men and women who desire to be Compiled From Reports of Observers organized under the banner of the Committee for Industrial Organization. Signs of this have already appeared in a few strikes the Should Be Defeated strike in New York, shoe strike in Maine, and the autoThree bills directed against trade ship n mobile strikes, for instance. Principals in the and arguunions, against before congress. ment are the C. I. O., headed by and strikes, are now secretaries; for the protection should be defeated. and the John L. high-salarie- d pie-car- . inter-unio- sit-do- They Indicates DECREASES in Automobile fatalities Indicates INCREASES in Automobile fatalities sit-do- DRIVE CAREFULLY sit-dow- ns. & ... Surety during the first three company, automobile fatalities increased 25 months of 1937, as compared with 'that same period of 1936. In the 29 states from which the following statistics were compiled, such deaths (Continued on page 5) Auto Mechanics Are Negotiating Agreements S. L. City cents an hour; helpers, $4 a day; apprentices, 35 cents an hour first year; 65 cents an hour third year, and 80 cents an hour fourth year. Counter Proposal In the negotiations the representatives of the garage owners offered a weekly guarantee of $30 for an eight-hou- r day, with 80 cents an hour minimum for hourly work. The union has voted to hold out the following weekly wages: Me- for $35 weekly guarantee, 90 cents chanics, $35; welders and radiator an hour for hourly work, elimina-- ( Continued on Page 6) repair men, $40; specialists, 75 Over 250 Salt Lake City automobile mechanics, employed in the leading garages, went out on strike Saturday for closed union shop, wages and, hours, and elimination of piece work. The union demand is a wage of 90 cents an hour for mechanics. The agreement submitted to the employers by representatives of local lodge No. 1525, International Association of Machinists, calls for of Manufacturers, and other labor-baiterIts aim is to destroy the of labor under the Wagner gains Labor Act. Government supervision of trade unions through registration and regulation is intolerable. Industrialists point to laws obliging certain types of businesses to incorporate and say that Labor should likewise come under government supervision. The fact is that incorporation laws are provided for the purpose of limiting the financial liability of companies and individuals to specified sums, and are in effect a means of legalizing fraud. The regulation which comes with incorporation is incidental to this main purpose, and is intended to restrain to a certain degree the fraud possible under inThere is no corporation laws. ' whatsoever. parallel What to do: Express your indignation against such a bill in letters to your congressmen and senators, to Congressman Hoffman, and to the House Committee on Labor. s. ARRIVE SAFELY According to data released by The Aetna Casualty antiquated of these bosses, is the staunch decraft fender of the union a union composed of men doing the same kind of work, though they may be employed in a hundred different industries. C. I. O. organizes by industries for ex-- ( Continued on page 4) high-salari- Indicates lack of adequate data for comparison The above chart how the gain and Ioite by atatea in the nationwide campaign now being waged for highway aafety. During the firat three month of 1937 automobile fatalitiea increaaed 25 aa compared with the aame period of 1936, in the 29 atatea from which fatality reporta were received. Lewis, H. R. 6456 (introduced by Repre- American Federation of Labor, led sentative Clare S. Hoffman of by fiddling William Green. Michigan) has the dual purpose of Comic Capers providing for registration and govSeeds of discord between these ernment control of trade unions, sown long ago the A. groups strikes F. of were and of outlawing controlled L., by and unions whose members particiinternational union presidents is in a This parpate ticularly dangerous bill. It is supported by the United States chamber of commerce, the Association H. R. 5393 (Martin Dies of Tex- as) would bring sit-do- strikers and the unions to which they be-on- g under the provisions of the anti-trulaws, providing heavy penalties and injunctions against strikers and unions. (Continued on Page 5) st out-of-da- te ed Labor on Its Forward March; C. I. O. Is Active More Than 10,000 Utah Metal Miners, Smelter and Mill Workers Will Be Members of C. I. O. Union Within a Short Time Some 5000 of Them Are From Salt Lake County U. A. W. Begins Unionization of Ford Motor Co. rA 100 per cent organization of the more than 10,000 of Utahs metal miners, smelter and mill workers into the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, a C. I. O. affiliate, is very near, according to Eldred M. Royle, Utah district of the organization. More than 5000 of these secretary-treasure- r workers are in Salt Lake county. I more than 500 and new members Big Organization Without a doubt, the Mine, Mill are being obligated every week, and Smelter Workers will be by Jit is anticipated that the Bingham far the largest labor organization miners will soon have by far the in Utah before July 1. largest local union of any organiza- The organization work will be tion in Salt Lake county, A Busy Place carried on in Salt Lake County busiest labor union two The the One weeks. next the of during new Garfield smelter workers local offices in Utah this week is that union has an enrollment in the of Mr. Royle in room 404 of 800 members, son building. The tables are loaded and Arthur mill workers with membership applications and Magna are already in the union fold, the the office force is working smelter and ore testing time to keep in step with the plant has a splendid beginning, the growth of unions in Utah. Lark miners are 90 per cent unionLast night the Garfield smelter miners5 and the workers held another rousing ized, Bingham union No. 2 has a membership of (Continued on page 3) . ! j over-Murr- ay |