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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT 4 LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE 1, 1 1937. assistance and advice. They were relief programs are really honestly LABOR ON ITS advised to elect committees to meet administered, or loaded to the with the executive board of the MARCH FORWARD LABOR LEADERS WANTED guards with graft, waste, sabotage, Federation and the representatives and political corruption. . Nobody DU. STELZLE CHARLES groups of the By of all knows what appropriation for re from page 3) of re(Continued the Executive Director, Good Neighbor League for purpose northwest lief in the next fiscal year would activities of the the result sisting the craft 'Splitting cambe adequate. Nobody knows that Vernon. and an appropriation of what liuybrecht the strikebreaking ef- paign. In the ace of the most compli by they may eavde these provis- everadequatewould Despite not be wastefully size, however, the Ford plant is 80,000 STEEL forts, cated industrial situation that has ions. a With brain a trust, squandered. deceived be must labor closed tight. District Council No WORKERS CALL BLUFF by n ever confronted our country, and theNor trust, and a sub-su- b 2 of the Maritime Federation vot notion that the fight is finish- brain trusts gallumping erratic ed with swiftly moving events in in ed that its all over but the shouts unanimously to refuse to handle Pa (UNS)-Die-- hard YOUNGSTOWN, the about country gathering ally dustry multiplying, caused largely of victory. Also, many employers statistics by the truck load, I have 42 Fords destined for Seattle, jat steel independents, still of the crew of the action by new labor legislation which will are honestly disturbed about the ul- at last found out ifying unwilling to give in to their workthat, beyond change the status of both employ- timate consequences of this legis- question or quibble, nobody knows McCormick steam schooner West ers' determination to have a union, ers and employes, there has arisen lation. Cape. in spite of the recent sweeping vicof to turn The time has come for interpre- nothin. a demand for labor leaders of the threatened crew The tories in the Jones & Laughlin and Exactly how big a Federal aphighest type and writh the finest tation and leadership for both in- propriation will have to be to save the steam if any effort was made Crucible Steel plants, brought dustry and labor. Industry can afequipment. starvation in the to load the Fords, and the ship down a strike 80,000 strong upon We are entering upon a new era ford to pay for the best talent that people offrom sailed without the cars. themselves when the employes of midst plenty, or from going in industrial relationships which money can buy. Labor has chiefly without of is a three big companies walked out. question shelter, will revolutionize the standing of the brains, experience and charPostal Telegraphers facts. It is a matter of arithme Five plants of three major indethe workers, but we are already en acter of its leadership. American FRANCISCO SAN of natural re pendent companies in five states The imperative need is for more tic, not politics; a gaged in industrial processes Radio association, labor Telegraphists' were closed down tight after tha power sources, machinery, through mass production which re- labor leaders who have these quali- and normal filed a C. has I. 0. petinot ethics affiliate, ultimatum of the Steel Workers consumption, quires the most statesmanlike con- ties. There can be no doubt that or morals. The tragedy is that tion with the National Labor Re Organizing Committee threatening sideration on the part of labors honor and respect will come to unemployment and relief never lations Board for an election a strike unless contracts were representatives when they set up such men and women, although, as have been, and are not now, being among Postal Telegraph employes signed, was ignored. new programs of action and new is always the case, they will be is to establish the union as sole barfactual Steel, handled It as Workers in Republic problems. not combinations among the organiza- maligned and misrepresented, Postal 1500 the Co. for and & Tube after agent shameful Steel and that gaining appalling Youngstown tions which they represent. only by outsiders, but by those four men and women in California. called after Federal for of were Inland spending Steel, years The fundamental principles and within their own ranks. Hut this that tosses millions and billions Eighty per cent of the Postal a conference of S.W.O.C. delegates objectives of organized labor are has been the common experience about like chaff in the wind, the employes are members of the A. R. from five states made the final dealready well established. Fifty or of those who have fought for right- public servants to whom you have T. A. In New York, Postal has cision to strike. Some 75,000 emmore years of experience have eousness and justice, no matter given the responsibility of dealing recognized the union of 2C00 mem ployes of the Canton plants of taught the workers many valuable what the cause may have been. lack bers who recently pulled out of the Republic Steel, largest of the indeThe job of leadership in the with theseof problems still lessons, and Labor has also decided to dying Commercial Telegraphers' pendents still holding out against which facts knowledge upon by progressive programs what its field of labor may be made one of base union. are action. There the union, walked out first, after intelligent the greatest in human affairs. general methods must be. all and opinions theories, Local 1200 of the Amalgamated guesses, It is an outstanding fact that Given the qualities which the pres: motivated interthe financial Mills Textile by Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Sign because of the new Federal Legis- ent situation in industry now de- ests of the there but expounders, Workers voted unanimously to Two Cal. mills in OAKLAND, lation, employers are more readily mands, there are few positions in are no and determined accurately Oakland have signed agreements strike accepting the provisions which it the world which hold out such op- coordinated facts. Comments of S.W.O.C. Head the Textile Workers Organizwith been of service than behalf have in for ready portunities contains, they Bitter Warfare C. The I. of the committee 0. Philip Murray, head of the S.W. to do during any previous period, humanity as that which is offered ing of The remainder of session this O. fellow-workethe Cotton are California mills C., charged that the Republic who man the will lead his although, admittedly, many of them congress is going to be a bitter Mills, and the National Automotive iSteel Corporation has stores of to victory. are searching for methods where warfare between the entrenched Fibres company, employing 1500 (Continued on page 5) of greed and reaction, and workers. The contract provides powers shall be permitted to starve or go the NOBODY KNOWS progressives seeking to make for the week, arbitration without shelter, but, unfortunate- the necessary to our of disputes, time and adjustments one-ha- lf overWelcome, Labor ly, none of them seem to have the economic system to force modern double time time and for pay, pay (Continued from Page 1) slightest factual basis for deterbeen stripped of some of their mining how much Federal funds industry to provide for the work- holiday work, and sole bargaining (Hafe 3Joc and stand are necessary to accomplish these ers displaced by labor, saving ma rights. protective coloring the speed-uand This, nakedly revealed as either progres- pious ends. Harry Hopkins' favor- chinery 48 E. SECOND SOUTH in the last analysis, is the whole sive or reactionary. Build Labor No one in this ite slogan is: May Temple reproblem of unemployment and Complex Iroblems The Original Bachelor Cafe country shall starve, but people lief. BELLINGHAM, Wash. C. I. 0. a with to face are starving right here in the naCongress is face conFamous Everywhere for its Honest legislators with moral union officials are considering series of rather complex problems tions capital. The most ghastly struction of their own labor temple social vision are and helpcourage MARVELOUS FOOD that pawing the earth, kicking up and grizzly stories of hunger, disno founda here as the result of action by rethe dust and loud bellowing can no ease and death among the unem- less because they have tion of facts upon which to base actionaries in the Central Labor Also longer obscure. It is Federal re- ployed employables of Washingno organized, ar- Council in refusing to seat C. I. 0. lief. The President has asked for ton, D. C., have filled columns in legislation, and delegates. The expulsion motion of one billion, the more liberal newspapers, and ticulate body of public opinion to , an appropriation was introduced by Teamster 5a JUone (Hafe ''five hundred million dollars for re- no one has contradicted one of support and encourage nothem in of Dave Beclc excuse stooges There efforts. is their fiscal lief purposes in the next them. On May 13th Mr. Hopkins for this 44 E. SECOND SOUTH of basic facts. year. Dills have been introduced told the house committee on emer- Congress,ignorance Union Chiseling could the or Angers President, to cut this to one billion, or to raise gency relief appropriations that Where ladies can now enjoy get them within ten days, at a PORTLAND, Ore. Con(UNS) it to three billion dollars. the jobless employables in the trifling because most the of cost, Charging that the teamsters and THE SAME FOOD IN REgress is sloshing about betveen the city of Washington were not becarpenters unions of the A. F. of two choices, with the issues as ing helped, they were hungry, they information needed can be found FINED, ARTISTIC in the files of the various state re- L. are atempting to break up their clear as mud and the way out as did not have money to pay rent, lief SURROUNDINGS agencies. All this talk about local, members of Furniture Worksolid as a bed of quicksand. and that they lived very miser- the necessity of a ten million dol- ers Local No. 1482, appealed to the To President, Hopkins, Ickes, ably. Whose foot slipped? 17 lar census of the unemployed is Federation of for and the old smoothies in Congress, IIow Many Unemployed I conhokum. am to forced pure all piously declare that no one The sum total of authentic infor- clude that neither congress nor the mation that I have gleaned by in- President have been able to withholies of the the of vading holy the stand force exerted ' by the Welcome temples of bureaucracy seeking pressure groups to whose finan- facts concerning unemployment is: cial interest it is that the facts be Nobody knows how many people kept in the dark. The means are unemployed. Nobody knows available to get the facts should be how many of the unemployed have utilized now, all the more because degenerated so much through idle- they have been previously ignored. ness and malnutrition that they In spite of all the efforts to keep have become unemployable. No- things under cover, two ugly facts Best Wishes to Utah Labor body knows how many of the un- stand out like a sore thumb. The Italian-Frenc- h Noneed relief. Fathers Day, June 20 employed actually government seems to have reached body knows how many need relief, the limit beyond which it cannot Restaurant and are not getting it. Nobody safely go in borrowing; industry SALT LAKE CABINET & FIXTURE CO. knows how many of those getting and employed labor cannot now BANK, OFFICE, CHURCH AND STORE FIXTURES 323 SOUTH MAIN relief could support themselves and never will be able to support A SPECIALTY FINE CABINET WORK through come sort of production in idleness the surplus .people C. Rinetti and F. Capitolo 32 Office: 34 and knows Richards for use program. Nobody Phone Wasatch 3210 Street whom machinery and the speed' 1428-4- 0 whether states and cities are bear- up have displaced. With all the West South Salt Lake City Factory: Temple LABOR FRIENDS OF more or than less share a fair billions that have been spent on ing Mrs. Marie F. Mueller, Secy. Kasper J. Fetzer, Mgr. of the relief burden. Nobody relief and all the hot air that has 17 knows whether the expensive work been expended on Capitol Hill no one has proposed anything more simple and basically sound Best Wishes to Utah Labor Best Wishes to Utah Labor SIMPLEX the EPIC program: END Molium Piston wood-worke- rs sub-brai- . rs 40-ho- ur Prnmtfs p. Wood-Worke- rs ROTISSERIE INN SIMPLEX AUTO PARTS DISTRIBUTOR . Piston Rings Compression Rings Piston Resizers Apache Brake Lining Pin Fitting Rod Aligning Brake Relining 990 Wasatch 6428 South 3Iain NEW LAMINATED Simplex Molium PISTON RINGS Piston Bearings! More than Piston Rings ANTI-FRICTIO- N ERTY BY PRODUCTION USE. How about you folks back home doing a little pressuring to stiffen up the backbones of the President and congress to demand facts, and to get down to fundamentals on unemployment and relief? THE ALEMITE COMPANY OF UTAH, Inc. 622 So. State Salt Lake Gty, Utah Distributors of ALEMITE MOTOR OIL ALEMITE LUBRICANTS The Triple Safe Way of Lubricating Listen to Horace Heidt and His ALEMITE BRIGADIERS Every Monday Night at 9:00 P. M. KSL. Modernized Jack and Jill went up the hill At CO miles or better. A cdp unkind Best Wishes Xo Labor Was right behind Theyre seeking bail by letter. Best Wishes to Labor Burlington. WASATCH BATTERY CO. Distributors Automotive Supplies Service That Serves 123 COMPLETE TRAVEL INFORMATION E. 4th So. Wasatch 2746 D. II. Busby, Mgr. V G Xrailways The First In Bus Service Bus Depot and Ticket Office 360 South State |