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Show . Review ofl Current Event SJSX.tXT of r JUN 1 0 1937 ess EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL VII: NO. 47 UPR Stop Judicial yi3 I &CY I1 The thing that really troubles most opponents of presidents plan of Federal judiciary reform is the moral ainty that many statutes which have been held unconstitutional m recent years will be found upon reexamination by a new court to be quite within the basic law. It would seem now, in view of the recent decisions of the supreme court, that most of the New Deal laws invalidated last year, and made a political issue to defeat the present adminis- Critics who fear such an outcome convict them- selves of two things, and they can- nant and holds office for life, or until another conservative Presinot be proud of either. is elected. dent Judicial Politics Should Know In the first place, they display It is high time that the average little or no confidence in the neces- citizen should know exactly what sary rightness of the judgment of has been happening in the courts. the conservative justices, and by so For a generation or more the sudoing they go a long way to make preme court has been divided in a case against the present court, the degree of tolerance with which to say that its judgments have he viewed the efforts of the people been political. through their legislatures to solve In the second place, they show their own problems, and in their little confidence in the ability of own way. The court has also been the elected representatives of the sharply divided in its economic people to pass statutes in the pub- viewpoint, a narrow majority lic welfare. which has hung on through all It would seem that if these peo- these years being intent on freeing ple would like to see our traditional business from any government conform of government changed trol which it might think undesirchanged, that is, from one having able. No one disputes these propothree coequal branches to one sitions today. Indeed, it has been where the judicial branch is domi- (Continued on Page 2) District 22, U. M. W. of A. and Operators Adopt Wage Scale The,. working agreements andLwage. schedule? were signed this week by officials of District 22, United Mine Workers of America, a C. I. O. affiliate, and representatives of Utah Coal Operators association. The wage scale is based on the Appalachian contract, and represents a compromise reached after several days of discussion of tonnage rates. Operators desired to increase the tonnage rate of pay for the loading of prepared coal by 6 cents, while the union representatives insisted on a 7 cents a ton in two-yea- r. - The compromise agreement placed the increase in pay at who will receive the 70 cents a day Vz cents a ton. increase as announced Monday Pay Increase night are: Machine runners and The 70 cents a day increase for helpers (regardless of whether mechanical workers was applied to they are cutting for hand or meeight classifications of day rate chanical loaders); mechanical loadminers. ers and helpers; scraper face operUtah operators agreed to lib- ators and helpers; men shoveling eralize hospitalization policies and onto, a conveyor, and loader-hea- d the new contract provides for1 an men. Tonnage increases for various opportunity to change practices of mine work were classifications at individual prevailing mining Pick min announced as follows: camps. An increase from $1 to $2.50 in ing, 9 cents; hand loading after the checkoff for union initiation machine, 8 cents; contract mechanfees per payday is contained in the ical loading, 1 cent; cutting ' macontract. chine, 1 cent; track cutting maThe joint scale committee agreed chine, :7 of 1 cent; loading of preto ask John L. Lewis, president of pared coal, 6V2 cents; drilling and the U. M. W. of A., to grant dis- tamping, 1 cent. The district officials, John M. trict 22 officers authority to permit overtime work in case of an emer- Ross, president. Salt Lake City; gency brought about by a fuel Albert Roberts, vice president, Rock Springs, and Virgil Wright, shortage. Classification of Pay Cheyenne, secretary - treasurer, Classifications of day workers (Continued on page 4) crease. Auto Mechanics Returned to Jobs Monday S. L. Salt Lake City automobile mechanics voted Sunday night to end the walkout which had closed 18 local auto dealers repair shops since May-15- . At a meeting held of local lodge No. members by 1525, International Association of Machinists, a contract was approved which will be in effect for 15 months. Sixty days prior to its ex- piration date either party may reby serving a written notice on the other. Main points of the new agreement are: . 1. Union recognition, without a open negotiations "closed shop. 3. Pay rates of 85 cents an hour to bodymen and 80 cents to of mechanics, with guarantees rates The $30 weekly. apprentice range from 35 to 70 cents for bodymen during their first four years of 'employment and1 from 35 to 65 cents for mechanics. Guarantees are from $16.5Q'(to $20 during apprenticeship. Sid Terris, business agent of the mechanics local union, who represented the local in negotiating conferences. said that organization work will be continued among the of independent repair employes shops, about 75 per cent of which are now unionized, in order to standardize the wage level for this industry in Salt Lake City and week, with shops and parts departments closed at 1 p. m. on Saturdays. vicinity. 2. A 45-ho- ur , Cent Per Copy By M. I. T. . tration last November, are fully constitutional. 5 DITORIAIL flews and Comment Dictatorship DEMOCRACY HAS NO PLACE FOR JUDICIAL AUTOC . Price: LAKE CITY, UTAH. MAY 28. 1937. Present Day Memorials Someone has figured it out that the Spanish people have known war for 67 per cent of their history. As with hushed voices, slowing footsteps and moistening eyes we wend our ways on Memorial Day to the services for our heroic dead, we can be thankful that our land is not torn asunder as is Spain. We are not at war, most of us never saw war in all its ghastly horror, and yet there are not many families in Utah but what have lost a relative, near or distant, in some of the wars in which we have participated. The sale of poppies each year reminds us of the different attitude toward memorials to our honored dead that we jxre now taking. Those of middle age and upward can recall when the first grumblings began to be heard against putting money into useless marble What statues to some general. people asked. good is gained? The general didnt win the war, It was wron by your said others. and our cousins. uncle my father, In those days we thought of the Spanish-America- n and the Civil wars. War isnt glorified as once by showing off with statues or in othNo matter who er particulars. wins, humanity always loses by Gone war. As modern books, With the Wind and others, make those of the north realize more and more what their cousins of the south suffered, there is a fervent wish in many hearts that a better way might have been found to settle the then existing differences. Not only do the sale of poppies and the lack of the fanfare spirit of other days 'remind us that we (Continued on Page 6) Political Outlook In Utah and U. S. Compiled From Reports of Observers DECORATION DAY ON THE PLACE Its lonesome sort o lonesome its a Sundj' day to me It pears like moren any day I nearly ever seel Yit, with the Stars and Stripes above, a flutterin in the air, On every soldier's grave I'd love to lay a lily there. They say, though, Decoration day is ginerally observed Most everywhere especially by soldier boys that served But me an mother never went we seldom git away In pint of fact, were alius home on Decoration day. They say the old boys marched through the streets in columns grand, the old war tunes theyre playin' on the band And citizens all jinin in and little children, too All marchin under shelter of the old red, white and blue With roses! rosesl roses! evrybody in the town And crowds o' girls in white, jest fairly loaded down! O dont the boys know it, from their camp acrost the hill? Dont they see their comrades cornin and the old flag wavin still? O cant they hear the bugle and the rattle of the drum? Aint they no way under heaven they can rekollect us some? Aint they no way we can coax em, through the roses, just to . say They know that ev'ry day on earths their Decoration day? me and mother where Elias takes his rest In the orchard in his uniform, and hands acrost his breast. And the flag he died for smilin and a ripplin in the breeze Above his grave and over that the robin in the trees! JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. Weve tried that IN SERVICE OF TIIE LIVING When English Prime Minister Stanley. Baldwin,. who. is soon to re- If the dead tire, dedicated a war memorial last summer, he declared: could come back today, there would be no war. As America pauses once again to remember those killed in her battles, we might well ponder Baldwins remark. We know the dead cannot come back, except in memory. How keenly do we, the living, feel our responsibility for peace? It is quiet and comforting to accept Memorial Day as a day for rest and fun. It is harder to see in it a challenge to thought and action on the great issues troubling a world drifting toward catastrophe. As the committee which established the annual lectures in memory of the late Senator Bronson Cutting said, The consecration of a passing (Continued on Page 8) Predict Victory Friends and foes of the Presidents court plan claim a victory on paper as a result of Justice Willis Van Devanters decision to retire from the supreme court. On the eve of battle both sides always predict a victory. This battle will be in the senate. The is- Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Gaining Thousands of New sue is simple:. Roosevelts perMembers In Utah Nations Steel Mill Workers Prefer C. sonal prestige and the human I. O. Garment Workers Give Lewis An Ovation rights and liberties vs. the liberty of the profiteer and the rich. Transport Workers Get C. I. O. Charter Textile CamWhich is more important? paign Adds Thousands of Workers Under Union AgreeWe predict the President and the ment State and City Central Councils of C. I. O. Is Being people will win. Formed AH Over the Nation. Labor on Its Forward March; C. I. O. Is Active Can Solve Unemployment In the recent national poll on the question, Do you think the unemployment problem can be solved? a prominent Utahn was quotThis Utahn ed as saying Yes! is no other than Hon. P. S. a member of the Utah state legislature and a majority floor leader in the house of representatives. In addition, he is a teacher of mathematics in the West high Mar-thaki- s, school. Mr. Marthakis reply to this question was: The representative of the Utah Labor News called this week at the Utah district offices of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers at 404 Beason building, and found the office force of District Secretary-TreasurEldred M. Royle busily engaged in preparing thousands of membership dues books for new members that have been enrolled into this fast growing C. I. O. affiliate in the past two weeks. Mr. Royle said everything in the metal mining, smeiting and mill industry is going union in Utah. More than ! 0,000 members in the state and over 5000 of these in Salt Lake county makes this organization by far the largest here. In meetings during this week reducing the number of hours a several hundred additional new person is to work each day and by members were obligated in Garindustry releasing the wheels of field, Magna - Arthur, Bacchus, progress. Efficient devices pro- Murray, Midvale, Bingham and conseduce more useful work Lark local unions. quently fewer persons are employed. We can never go back to using our hands for doing things. NeiPrinting Trades Gain Allied printing trades are gainther can we discard machinery. The spirit of profit is too powerful ing ground in Salt Lake City. J. F. to be overcome. Rhodes, president of the Allied More people will be employed Printing Trades Council, has cononly when industrialists learn to tacted employes and employers evaluate fair profits and when they and the printing trades, and rebecome less capricious and more ports a friendly sentiment for orconsiderate to those who help them ganizations. make such profits. Typographical union No. 115 has Mr. Marthakis has made a study a number of new membership apof economics and the probe of the plications in view, and the same is unemployment problem has been true in other printing trades unions affiliated with the council. (Continued on Page 5) Yes, I think it can be solved by er Employers realize that the only to get along in this modem age is to deal with unionized labor through the collective bargaining channels. wray Hail Union Pact RICHMOND, Va. (UNS) WorkMarks ers of the Friedman-Harr- y of Richmond, Clothing Company one of the concerns involved in the five cases passed upon by the U. S. Supreme Court in upholding the Wagner labor act, voted enthusiastically to accept the agreement signed between the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, C. I. O. union, and the company. Of the 900 workers in the plant, all but 70 belong to the union. The contract which is to run for three (Continued on Page 2) . |