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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 28, 1937. BREAD - AND ORGANIZED by the company. Seniority rights and arbitration are established. Signing of the agreement marks the high point of organization in LABOR By DR. CHARLES STELZLE Executive Director, Good Neighbor League the flour milling industry. DISTRICT 22 U. M. W. OF A. AND OPERATORS ADOPT WAGE SCALE (Continued from page 1) were high in praise of the new V agreement. Are Well Pleased Ross Mr. said, The signing of this contract assures harmonious relations between operators and union coal miners in Utah for the next two years. Mr. Wright said that this was the best contract ever signed between operators and the union in C. I. 0. Wins Workers ard Bishop, Hiawatha, and Alfred Carey, Schofield. IA a special message to the Utah Columbia Contract Labor News the Union News ServSettlement was reached Saturice reports continued victories day of a captive coal mine conthe for between Columbia Steel workers industrial tract among the Committee for Industrial Ortime. It was the first petition in company and the U. M. W. of A. ganization. Representing the steel company the prayer taught by Jesus to his The C. I. 0. union signed this the negotiations in the Kearns at disciples two thousand years ago. week an exclusive bargaining building were H. M. Brock, San The fight for Bread has been & Jones the with agreement Francisco, manager of industrial the animating force back of the relations for the company; C. T. Laughlin Steel corporation, affectgreatest struggles in history. The ing 27,000 employes. Keigley, Provo, general superinThe Amalgamated Steel union, a district 22. tendent of the Provo plant, and E. tramping of armies, the booming C. I. 0. .affiliate, has a memberof cannon, the pilgrimage of pio Mr. Roberts joined in expressing S. OConnor, superintendent of the And more of than 350,000. neers, the struggles of the workship satisfaction over the friendly rela- company mine at Columbia, Utah. what a change! Nine months ago tions existing here between the Union representatives were Alers, synchronize in a mighty stac cato marching chorus of union the steel Bread, had only 5000 bert Roberts, John M. Ross, disunion and the coal operators. BREAD. conof reward members a Bread, BREAD, BREAD, B. P. Manley, executive secre- trict president; Virgil Wright, disThere is no more dominating tinuous affiliation with the A. F. tary of. the Utah Coal Operators trict secretary, and David L. Day, theme in Scripture teaching and land. of L. for over 40 years. I feel that the Isaac Evans and Otto Jlorner, all association, said: AmalC. I. O. As sacred history than that of food the a affiliate reached a is all the wars for equitable to of Columbia local union scale comPractically agreement the satisfying of hunger. Jesus thousand years were fought to ob- gamated has gone places in the both parties, and I desire to com- mittee members. Ilimself said that lie was the tain Bread. It was economic rath- past nine months and is now the pliment the negotiators of both Provisions of the proposed conBread of Life. Thus the Book er than political pressure which second largest international labor sides for the spirit of fair play tract are similar to those of the which is today the worlds best was the determining factor. World union on the North American con- shown during the negotiations. general Utah contract. seller recognizes the importance of peace cannot be obtained merely sent. Because the steel company conThe members of the scale comThese results speak volumes for mittee for the union were: A. M. sumes all the coal mined at the Bread in the life and history of by passing resolutions in an at mankind. tempt to create "good will among the C. I. 0. Peterson, Castlegate; W. II. Wil- Columbia mine, a separate contract But outside the tremendously nations. The supreme issue will liams, Standardville; Joe Dowd, is necessary, it was explained. The Council Meets significant teachings of the Bible, always be the possibility of the Desperation Latuda; Dick Murray, Kenilworth; agreement is termed ' a captive Rich coal mine contract. the story of Bread has come down great masses of the people to make Fiddling Bill Green and his Charles Simkins, Consumers; the From a the centuries. living. through gang of $12,000 to $15,000 a year There can be no peace on earth pie very beginning industrial warfare in transportation facilities, excluding by the Fifth Avenue Coach comcard artists were has had as its basis the demand until the prayer of all the nations Cincinnati this week formeeting under the pur- steam railroad systems. pany and affiliates is getting Inter-urbaand all the people everywhere, for Bread. n vote for referdum A Nichoblock the to of St. in mass pose The laying way. plans meeting Riots to obtain food, rebellion give us this day our daily Bread, so definitely employes has rogress of the C. I. 0. in organ- las Palace, New York, at which the against starvation wages, the over, is answered. the millions of unorganized request for affiliation with the been set by the City Industrial Reizing And so, in the fight that organ- workers of this throw of political parties, have perC. I. 0. was voted on, was attended lations Board, and the union is decountry. sisted when the people were hun- ized labor is making for a living John L. Lewis, head of the C. I. by more than 7000 transit workers. manding elections for workers on gry. At such a time every other wage for the workers of the world, 0., referred to the confab as There was only one dissenting other lines as well. consideration moral, ethical, re- it is helping to bring about a conmerely a council of desperation, vote. Belonged to A. F. of L. ligious, and patriotic has been dition which will improve morale, and said the C. I. 0. was not in at Meeting The Transport Workers union Brophy Speaks strengthen religion, increase loyal- the least concerned. swept aside. C. was organized in 1934 as an which to of a principal ty The Fresident John Brophy, director of the government, and bring about John P. Frey, president of the his recent world of course I. the declared in American railroad company independent union, was taken into peace. 0., metal trades department of the the A. F. of L. a year and a half what the at that meeting federation, in his usual manner speech and ago as a lodge of the International ronize Strutwear products. raised the cry of reds against had been done in the steel done LABOR ON ITS Association of Machinists. William By the terms of the agreement it the C. I. 0. organizers. Frey is automobile industry could be transit field. Green, A. F. of L. president, notiFORWARD MARCH will be automatically renewed at well known for his fascist ear- - in the fied the union later that it must the done be and will can It by its termination September 1, 1938, marks, and for making deals with strength surrender jurisdiction of all workfor an additional term of one year, labor-hatin- g industrial employers. realization of your great (Continued from page 3) in a single ers except machinists and helpers and so on from year to year in deYes, Frey tried his tactics In when you are united to the Amalgamated Association of dent, in a conference two weeks fault of written notice of intention Utah, but they did not work here. industrial organization, he said. are 40,000 There Street, Electric Railway & Motor before the ten C. I. 0. unions were to terminate mailed by either parapproximately 16,-0Coach New in workers Employes. traction York, refused Lewis charged, suspended, ty to the other at least thirty days TRANSPORT WORKERS It was this jurisdictional disof whom are already members to say that the A. F. of L. would prior to September 1, 1938, or of TO GET C. I. O. CHARTER of the Transport Workers union. pute which brought about the permit even one basic industry, any current term of this agreeUnion employes of the Inter- break with the American Federament. steel, to be organized on an and Third Avenue Rail- tion of Labor. Members of the trial basis. The agreement provides for the WASHINGTON (UNS) Street borough Since that time nothing has five day 40 hour week with two car, subway, elevated and bus lines way company lines, sure of their traction workers union came to see more and more plainly the need for happened to indicate any change of shifts, with the 36 hour week for in New York City and elsewhere strength, have been demanding an of a choice to their election strong organization on industrial register policy upon the part of the A. F. footers, footer helpers and toppers;! are to be organized by the Trans-- 1 of L., but much has happened to for a six per cenj. wage incrgase port Workers of America, the the union they want to represent lines and agitation for affiliation with the C. I. 0. icreased from indicate that the rank and file of January 1, and that either party newly affiliated C. I. 0. union them. to week. to week An intensive drive organize workers in the mass production in may request a revision of wage which broke away from the Ameri- on Page 5) lines Manhattan bus the (Continued operated dustries have lost confidence in the rates not oftener than once each can Federation of Labor May 7. deA. F. of L. and are no longer six months and that they be made John L. Lewis, chairman of the sirous of being members of the only during the months of January C. I. 0., at a conference in WashA. F. of L., he said. and July. In event of a disagree- ington with a delegation from the Steel Workers Lost Faith ment regarding wages arbitration union accepted it into affiliation,) 'copy of Using the steel industry as an machinery consisting of two from granting the union the right to you Lewis he meant, the union, two from employers and have an international charter with) example of what said that applications for member- they select a fifth to comprise the jurisdiction over workers employed in or about passenger on land ship in the steel union formed a wage rate board. barometer which showed the senti' General Mills ment of the workers toward the Signs A. F. of L. When newspaper headMINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UNS) lines said that peace with the General Mills, Inc., has signed a Federation was to be declared, ap- union working agreement with a plications dropped off, because the union that covers not only the big If you are honest and unbiased you will admit that it is workers in the steel industry had flour mills of the corporation in no confidence in the A. F. of L. the only real labor and social economic publication in Minneapolis, but the mills in ChiThey had lived too many years cago, Louisville, Buffalo, Kansas the states. in economic misery and exploita- City, Johnson City, Tenn., Great tion in the steel industry while the Falls and Kalispell, Mont., Wichita, A. F. of L. looked on. They didnt Kan., Oklahoma City, El Reno, Ok-la- ., If you are not a regular subscriber, you should become want to belong to a union that they Wichita Falls, Amarillo and i one NOW! thought might become reinstated Vernon, Texas, Detroit, Vallejo, or reestablished with the A. F. of California, and Ogden, Utah, Port L., Lewis declared. land, Oregon, and Tacoma and Regular price $1.50 per year Spokane, Washington. Strutwear Is Union The agreement provides that Each issue contains startling facts suppressed by other MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UNS) there shall be no discrimination Strutwear hosiery and Peacock against union members, establishes papers. Political corruption, advertised fakes which week with time underwear, famous products of the a five-dapoison and plunder the consumers, how the public is Strutwear Knitting company, are and one-ha- lf for overtime and for union. Branch 38 of the American work done the sixth day, holidays rates humbugged by propaganda; special articles on the Federation of Hosiery Workers, a and Sundays. There will be vacaC. I. 0. affiliate, is requesting all tions with pay according to the growing cooperative movement; exclusive stories on the Extra Electricity members of organized labor to pat- - time workers have been employed progress of the Committee for Industrial Organization; News and Comment; Review of Current Events; Politi- Give us this day our daily bread, has been the universal cry of mankind since the beginning of ly declared that he would sooner steal than sarve, expressing the thought that the lack of Bread results in a total disregard of moral principles. The failure to give a man a chance to steadily earn his daily Bread breeds hatred in the hearts of the workers. And policemens bullets are poor substitutes for Bread, no matter what the provo cation. More important than the reduc tion of garments, the destruction of cruisers, the legulation of the use of chemical gasses, the size of armies, is the question of providing Bread for all the people in every , dues-payin- . 1 00 the have read this After Utah labor Flews' ELECTRICITl IS CHEAP inter-mounta- in IN THIS TERRITORY 40-ho- y, With our new and low ur at BEST WISHES TO UTAH LABOR Colorado Animal you get more for your Electric Service dollar than ever before. Co. By-Produ- cts Ogden Half-Pric-e Salt Lake City Spanish Fork Logan Ileber City cal Outlook; Labor On Its Forward March; Editorials these are some of the exclusive features appearing in the next 3 issues. 1 Special offer for 13 weeks, Open to new readers only. Send 25 cents today for the next instructive and UTAH POWER & LIGHT CO. 25c worth-whil- e 13 issues of the most reading in Utah. Utah Labor News 24 South 4th East St., Salt Lake City. |