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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 28, 1937. 6 Pressure Groups LABOR ON ITS NEWS and C031MENT FORWARD MARCI1I the A. F. of L., the union states that obstructions and hindrances of all sorts were placed in the path of the unions attempts at organiza (Continued from Page 3) (Continued frou Page 1) ton without little black bags, like have ceased to tion. war. They (Continued from page 5) the Apostles whom the Nazarene also remind us ofglorify In contrast to this, the activity the more humane Pa., three dyeing and finishing sent out preaching His gospel of the Committee for Industrial in been has that late years plants in New Jersey, first in the. without money in the purse or spirit has captured the in the world. and Organization in growing state this industry to sign, script in their wallets. Weary, of the The sale of the poppies will help some 20 others. unorganized imagination ' dusty and travel worn they come the maimed, wounded and handi States and United the in workers Drive Rapidly Progressing to Capitol Hill with hat in hand, capped men who made them. Some I Canada. C. I. has shown The 0. The with which large meekly asking for a few more. of the money earned will be de firms in rapidity the of need for its realization indusall branches of the crumbs from the table of super- voted to movements and causes collar and prowhite the with bringing are signing agreements abundant plenty. It is when these dedicated to increasing human try fessional workers into the organ us effectiveness demonstrates the men wander hopelessly through the happiness, Hillman ized labor movement on a large promoting human well of the drive in textiles, marble corridors that we hear being. scale. newere said. These agreements The last war enlisted men under gotiated mainly without strikes or pressure groups and propagan da in intonations that brand them the slogan, Make the World Safe strike threats, following the policy Retail Clerks Union as being the vile and dangerous for Democracy. It may have fail of the T. W. 0. C. of maintaining and ruin. weapons of radicalism ed in its objective in making the peaceful relations with the indusWith 15,000 Members Haves Have Been world safe for the democratic way try. I have been on Capitol Hill for of voting and getting things done Enters C.I.O. Ranks The drive is making very rapid some time, and if there is anything jn gome quarters of the globe. progress. Conferences are going I long to see it is more, bigger, and I jjut on with many large firms, and mo3j cynical must WASHINGTON (UNS) Retail pressure groups. Yes, I said mit that aince the Worl(1 the will now in of one the latest clerks, process negotiations groups of pressure groups, and I don t pussy-- 1 good things of earth have become bring three or four thousand more workers to be taken into the new foot when I say it. The haves more democratic in that they min workers under T. W. O. C. con- union movement by the Committee have been pressuring govern gle more freely in the everyday tracts within the next few days." for Industrial Organization, were ment throughout the ages. Now lives of the little men and women. been have local charters internaan the to Forty granted right should its time the have-noNo, we dont build marble stat issued by T. W. 0. C. since the tional charter May 19. share in the work of this old and ues of generals on horseback. We drive began and more are being set The New Era Retail Sales Clerks noble profession. It was the right build memorial hospitals and dediThe majority of unions, with a membership of alevery up day. and duty of the people of our Dec cate memorial libraries and parks. them are located in the New Eng- most 15,000 in 14 locals in New it was We dont wave the flag quite so land area 10 in Massachusetts, York laration of Independence; City, Brooklyn, Newark, N. the just cause on which we bas much, but we waive the 7 and 6 Rhode vested in in PennsylIsland, J., Philadelphia, Wilmington, Del., ed our right to set up our own de- - entrenched rights of 2 each in and New Haven 4 in New York, and Hartford, special vania, it was written into our jefe a more and C. I. 0. charOhio, will receive a Minnesota, Conn., Virginia Constitution, and it was held to be And the glorious thing about it West Virginia and 1 each in Mis- ter as the United Retail Employes precious and inalienable by our all is that the strong and wise in souri, Kentucky and New Jersey. of America. Founding Forefathers. thousands of instances are leadC. I. 0. Chairman John L. Lewis George Washington said: Gov ing and helping the weak and un has announced that they will be ernment is not reason, it is not el wise that they may become strong White Collar Group given jurisdiction over all emoquence, it is force! Like fire it is and wise. To Hold ployes Convention engaged in or about retail dangerous servant and a fearful Some countries have taken what establishments. master; never for a moment to be we think is a sad, bad, mad Lewis Statement way to NEW YORK CITY (UNS) left in irresponsible hands. Thom attain social justice. Americas I am certain that under tht inWihte-collworkers are being The basis of dead, as Jefferson said: in us looking today, asked to attend a national conven-io- n spiration of your affiliation with our government being the opuuon i must feel that in dupon in for huma of office and professional the C. I. O. your efforts will ultiof the people, the very first object did not die in vain. ity, they Phil- mately result in the complete should be to keep that right For with all our groping and workers unions to be held in Bookunionization of the industry, Lew. 31. I prefer dangerous liberty rather we are on our adelphia May 30 and stumbling betimes, wrote in the letter of acceptis Acand than quiet servitude. It prevents way towards Golden keepers, Stenographers ance. Humanitys of New No. countants Union the 12646, degeneracy of government Era of Social Justice, ConsideraUntil a few weeks ago the retail has sent out the call, stating and nourishes a general attention tion, and Planned York, clerks union was affiliated with Cooperation. hat an unparalleled opportunity to public affairs. I hold that a Clerks the Retail International ::or organization exists which so little rebellion now and then is a Protective of the A. F. association, Your Manners not been utilized. far has good thing, and as necessary in L. They seceded from the inof Manners to the are the of individual At convention the the political world as storms in every headlines are to a news col American Federation of Labor for ternational and banded together in physical. Abraham Lincoln said: what beWhile the people retain their vir- umn. They impress the observer the past 15 years there has been a the new national organization cause of bureauwith the setand disgust he the with what resolution introduced for tue and viligance no administra quickly briefly cratic dictatorship and corruption ting up of an international union of tion, by any, extreme of wickedness will find out in detail later. the A. F. of L. leadership. If they are true and well ex- of office and professional workers. or folly, can seriously injure the the R. C. I. P. A. with conCharging Woodrow Wilson pressed they may invite further, These resolutions have been government. and stagnation paralysis, the New executive been said: We have forgotten the very friendly acquaintance. It has sistently referred to the Era stated that it hindered, consistsaid group manners that man. make been and as the council have principles of our origin, for we Many scoundrels affect on more than one occasion, and union the how to charges have forgotten how gentle ently ignored, object, virtually sabotaged the organizaBut even these woulc in its letter of invitation. to resist, how to agitate, how to manners. tional find that the part of gentleClaiming that the heavy pay- locals. efforts of its affiliated pull down and build up, even to men wouldacting as in time which to them of tax ments help the extent of revolutionary pracper capita Achievements Listed federal locals, office workers tices, if it be necessary to read- become such. Among the achievements the reBut good manners do often unions were forced to pay did not just matters. tail clerks union made in New 'make the man from in the sense that bring any tangible assistance Your Congressman York different City after it seceded from the make sue men things These are troubled times when F. A. of L., were agreements with cessful. is a crumbling economic system Named Woolworth the and Grand Good placing more strains and stresses I cause manners are important n Manley a contract with stores; they make a man or woman our democracy than any other Coal Board Hearns department On closed a te, store; thoughtful government has ever borne, and shop contract and wage increases survived. The problems with of others feelings, tactful, gener B. P. Manley of Salt Lake City averaging 25 per cent for 400 emwhich our government must deal ous, kind. You may not have read the lat- and L. W. Mitchell of Cheyenne, ployes of the Busch Jewelry chain, are so complex and baffling that est code of social usage but if you Wyo., were among 19 acting dis- the first agreement to be signed in even if our congressmen were supermen which God knows they have the art of making people feel trict secretaries named Tuesday by are not the burden would be at ease and well pleased with them- the coal commission to organize greater than they could bear. If we selves and the situation in hand, district boards to administer the coal stabilization are to survive as a democracy and you have gone far in developing Guffey-Vinso- n manners. This act. calls self for escape the bloodstained abyss of good (Continued on Page 8) wars and dictatorships that have The boards will be composed of common three to 17 coal producers the from engulfed Europe, people dare not leave all the our government from wickedness who accept the new bituminous coal code to be promulgated by the comnressuring of the government to and folly. the reactionaries The same "pressure groups who mission on June 21. One member Not your congressman, but you, compelled Wilson to bow to its of each board will be a representamust learn to harness and direct force and help make the world tive of mine workers union. the force which Washington said shambles are now using the same is government, and which we have pressure on Roosevelt, and your left all too long in irresponsible congressmen. Bringing pressure Sanitorium Site hands. Not your congressman, but far beyond your comprehension to Board Selected! you must voice that opinion of the leave the power to nullify the acts people; demand the dangerous lib of congress in the hands of the Members of the commssion to erty and threaten that little rebel supreme court; to scrap the Adlion the storms in the political ministrations social welfare pro- select a site for the erection of a world to which Jefferson pinned gram; to reduce relief if the unem- tuberculosis sanitorium were ap-- 1 his faith. Not your congressman, ployed must starve; to use ma- pointed Tuesday by Governor Henry but you, must be the virtue and chine guns and poison gas if the H. Blood. the vigilance which Lincoln said hungry complain. They are: Ora Bundy,- former would protect our government from Welcome Help, Ogden mayor and president of the wickedness and folly. Not your One has only to sit through the Utah State Sanitorium association; but be the hearings of the La Follette com- Curtis B. Hawley Sr., Salt Lake must you, congressman, one who has not forgotten how to mittee to know what has been done City, president of the Utah Tuberobject, how to resist, how to agi- in the past, and what will be done culosis association; Mrs. D. C. Gibtate, how to pull down and build in the future on a greater scale .if son, Helper, former state repre- up, even to the extent of revolu- the pressure groups of industrial sentative from Carbon county, and tionary pratices if necessary. despotism are not challenged by James Bant, Eureka, president of Who Knows 7 the of the the Tintic district miners union. pressure groups We will always be haunted with people. Governor Blood will be ex officio the thought of what might have The intelligent members of con- chairman of the group. been. Who knows? If there had gress welcome help from the folks The recent legislature provided been strong and powerful press- back home. There are two decent, ure groups of the common people sincere progressives to one old for the creation of the commission to resist the pressure groups of gray wolf or smug old smoothie, and allocated $100,000 out of sales blind greed and war mongering, and most of them really and sin- tax revenue to be matched with federal funds under a P W A proWilson might have kept us out of cerely want to do the right and inwar; might have been strong telligent things with the power gram in financing the construction enough to keep faith with the peo- you have placed in their hands. of the hospital. ple who elected him, and avoided But always remember that human the most senseless, resistance has its breaking point. at worst. d Have you a live, forceful, well page of our his- If you sit at home twiddling your tory. The people had no press- thumbs while the pressure organized peoples pressure group ure groups and the of blind reaction are left :n your congressional district? If groups did, and we will pay the price for in complete possession of the field, not, you had better get one, and generations yet to come, because this session of congress will go get it busv doing some pressur-- 1 we were not the virtue and vig down in history as a futile mess at ing for the underprivileged beilance, strong enough to protect I best, and a tragedy in the making fore it is too late. ad-bett- y; ar . five-and-di- be-o- I friendly--considera- - greed-blackene- d, blood-staine- war-make- rs -- Jewelry chain, also employing 400 workers, which gave improved working conditions and a substan- tial wage increase. A strike which the union conducted against the United Cigar Stores closed the companys stores in Philadelphia, Wilmington, Del., Camden and Atlantic City, N. J. Samuel Wolchok, secretary of Local No. 338, is acting chairman of the new organization, and John Cooney, of Local No. 906, is secretary. Permanent officers will be elected as soon as a national convention can be held. I. 0. National Unions Four Latest C. er ts privi-mocrac- the retail jewelry trade, and a contract with the Finlay Straus WASHINGTON (UNS) Names, addresses and officials of the four national unions to affiliate with the Commitee for Industrial Organization during the past week are: Union of Transport Workers 64th 153 West street, America, New York City; Michael J. Quill, president. Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians, 26 E. 17th street, New York City; James A. Gaynor, president. National Leather Workers association, Beacon building, 6 Beacon street, Boston; Daniel J. Boyle, secretary-treasure- r. United Retail Employes of America, 152 West 42nd street, New York City; Samuel Wolchok, chairman. Mayor a Pressman PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (AFLNS) In connection with the celebration here of the 150th anniversary of the Constitution of the United States, Hon. S. Davis Wilson, may. 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