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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE 8 1, 1 1937. exactly the opposite express) thought that its victim had in the beginning of unity which would turn divisions within the Labor movement into one of success and achievement. The rank and file believe in unity, therefore, there shoulc be no reason why the leaders can't follow the desires of the rank and file, who pay their salaries. (Continued from page 1) until we find a solution for the displacement of Remember: "United we stand, divided we fall! DITORIAL willing to work, and labor by modern machinery. It is folly to say there is no unemployment, and that the problem of relief should be turned over to the local municipalities. The sen- NEWS AND COMMENT ators and representatives should face realities and stop their "horseLet the plutocrats of Wall Street and the owners of our great play. (Continued from page 1) industries complain of the rising cost of government. If they refuse years the first contract entered to cooperate and do not assume the responsibility for creating employ- into was January of 1911. This ment for American citizens who are able to work, then we can expect contract was renewed recently, and a drastic change in our economic and social order. Recent events will run from May 1 for another field indicate that the employers of labor in the three years. And there has not colespecially recognize that their employes have a right to bargain been a single interruption of work, lectively and demand wages sufficient for them to maintain themselves not a strike since 1910 up until and their families decently. this time. Last February the Amalgamated Despite every serious attempt to improve the sad condition of millions of our fellow citizens, pestilence, actual hunger, and want are officers met in New York with repstill raging. When President Roosevelt on May 24, 1937, in his mes- resentatives of the clothing indus sage to the congress urged legislation further to help those who tod try and made a contract for 150,- in factory and on farm, he said: 000 workers throughout the earns its j of our daily population overwhelming majority try, and the conferences lasted just of our popula- three half-day- s. Not a stoppage of bread either in agriculture or in industry. One-thir- d tion, the overwhelming majority of which is in agriculture or industry, a single day in the whole indusand is try all settled by conferences The Amalgamated Clothing The overwhelming majority of this nation has little patrence deals with 90 per cent of Workers has with that small minority which vociferates today that prosperity in the clothing inthe and that are employers are that high, good, crops prices returned, that wages dustry. the government should take a holiday. The Amalgamated Clothing acconditions as of In the face of this startling indictment they is one example of the sevWorkers tually exist, coming from the leader of the greatest nation in the eral successful unions formed under world, congress should sit up and take notice. Responsibility rests the plan of industrial form of orwith congress to recognize we are our brothers keepers, and that the humblest of our citizens are entitled to the opportunity to proper- ganization. You can What will happen? ly feed, clothe, and shelter loved ones according to the highest Ameranswer this question. readily ican standard of living. mind. If we will look at what Green really said, and what he really proposed, well get an entirely different idea of what he was trying to do. Funds raised from the passing of the new collection plate are not to be used for hiring to attack the C.I.O.J they are not to be used to hire press agents to build up public opinion against the C.I.O. ; they are not to be used to slow up the C.I.O. in any way Missouri, New York and District of Columbia. We welcome those who have joined our army of thousands of readers. We are endeavoring to publish the best labor and social economic publication in the strike-breake- EXCEIT BY REDOUBLING TIIE mass-producti- on ill-cla- d, rs ORGANIZATION CAMPAIGN OF THE AFL AND GETTING THE MEN INTO THE AFL BEFORE THE CIO BEATS US TO IT. What Green should have said was: Boys, lets dig into our pockets a little deeper, get a lot of competent organizers in the field and BUILD faster than the CIO can build. Lets do what wp should have done years ago and show America that it doesnt need to turn to the CIO for leadership. In other words, lets do what John Lewis was kicked out of the AFL for proposing organize the unorganized. EDITOR SEES A SILVER LINING By C. II. GARRIGUES, Editor, San Diego Labor Leader Some men throw the bull and some bulls throw the man. It seems to me that William Green is destined to go down in history as a man who has been thrown by the biggest bull since Woodrow Wilson calved: Too proud to fight. Greens bull, of course, was his adjuration to the A. F.L. to Double its dues and fight the C.I.O. Since the opening of that conference in CinIf a lowly editor may attempt cinnati only a few days ago, that to interpret the mind of a great bull has been picked up, thrown labor leader, thats exactly what around and generally used by anti-Gre- Green was trying to say when the leaders everywhere to such bull got into his mental china-sho- p an extent that many loyal AFL-er- s and raised Cain. Labor Marches On are beginning to doubt whether Personally, we cant see anything STATEMENT OF JOHN L. LEWIS Bishop Francis J. McConnell, Green can hold the next convention more hopeful for the labor movement than the prospect of two writing in the June issue of The in line and secure his own the of whirlwind organization campaigns monthly magazine Fight, John L. Lewis, head of the C. I. O. issued the following, statement American and more War to For labor, Against League ready fight jeing carried on simultaneously on the recent brutal killing of strikers of Republic Steel company in the back 15 than has in been it until has time, Fascism, brings years, every organized wTorker is in Chicago: the no chairman of when was stomach he a for 1919, fight against organized. The brutal massacre of the Chicago steel workers is a blot on the Interchurch Steel Strike And we cant be a bit mad at Inquiry. Labor. Labor is willing to fight for national conscience. They were unarmed. The killing took place on He who steel a its to worker about is it tells Lewis or Green for doing the either rights; ready fight the open prairie, six blocks from the gate of the sacred property wrere out dictatorship of big business; it is he thing that all of us agree men the describes why others men were killed, a hundred the Republic Steel Company. Six 1919. ready to fight for shorter hours, needs to be done. were shot, gassed and clubbed. Not a single policeman was shot on strike in more the the of An Inter pay, a fairer share of what investigator Those who were injured suffered from the naked hands of men who con- - it produces but its not willing to Commission into fell church were fighting for their lives against armed killers. OPEN FORUM for one group of labor leaders versation with a steel worker and The nation knows the Chicago police force is corrupt. It is the asked whether he had walked out fight another of pitted against group same force that for years has protected the hoodlum and the thug The Open Forum, Sunday, evebecause he wanted recognition of labor leaders. It now aids the Republic Steel company. This company and the police the union collective And so Labor is showing remark- ning, June 13, at 8 oclock, at the bargaining force are guilty of planned murder. better wages ? Well, yes, the strik- able unanimity in its ability to 3ity and County building, will treat Somewhere in this nation should be a force strong enough to er replied, it was all those thing look the other way when the col- ;he subject of Some Causes of to justice, but it was something more that lection plate comes around. Excessive Juvenile Crime in the bring these uniformed killers and their Somewhere in this nation should be a force greater than a steel com had driven him to go out. He had, United States. Louis Ward will Now the distinctive thing about e the principal speaker, announces pany. Somewhere in this nation should be enough earnest and hones he said, recently lost a child and citizens to compel action by the federal and state authorities. he realized at the time of her death a bull is the fact that it usually George A. Udell, chairman of the Can it be true that striking workmen may be shot at will by the that he had never known her. Ho expresses (or can be turned to 'orum. very agents of the law? Is the blood of our American workers less had been working the twelve-hovaluable than that in Spain for which we weep, Is labor to be proweek. When he was day, seven-da- y tected or is it to be butchered? The answer is important both to coming home to bed the child was labor and America. getting up to go to school when he was going back to work the you copy child was going to bed. Now, he AMERICAN WORKERS ARE UNION-MINDE- D had some other children at home and he had made up his mind to The workers of America believe in unity. They are know' them obviously impossible if twelve-hou- r the whether they are members of the A. F. of L. or of day, seven-da-y w'eek was why he That persisted. the C. I. O. was on strike. ' Labor union members, regardless of which faction of labor That was in 1919. The situation they are aligned, believe in the fundamentals of organization. in steel has improved since that If you are honest and unbiased you will admit that it is The rank and file of the labor movement have no quarrel with dav, but a steel organizing camthe only real labor and social economic publication in paign is in progress, and the same brother members. and labor espionage that :error the There may be differences as to the form of organization, states. Judge employed then are beGary but regardless of these differences the members believe in unity. ing employed in the industry. And If you are not a regular subscriber, you should become They are great believers in the truth that "united we stand, di- also in other industries, as auto and textiles. vided we fall. one NOW I J. Gorman, president of Both the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L. unions are built for theFrancis United Textile Workers of The members do not pay dues to fight among them- America, contributes unity. an article in Regular price $1.50 per year selves. They have joined unions to bring about better econom- this special number of The Fight ic conditions for the workers and a better feeling and under- on Textile and Civil Rights. in Each issue contains startling facts suppressed by other which he tells about the achievestanding of each others' problems. ments of the Textile Workers OrLeaders of labor have been created and raised by the rank ganizing Committee of the C. I. O., papers. Political corruption, advertised fakes which and file, but no one can charge that it is the rank and file who and also the intimidation and terpoison and plunder the consumers, how the public is have brought about the division that is now existing between ror that has been directed against humbugged by propaganda; special articles on the t. He declares: higher-up- s in the American Labor movement. growing cooperative movement; exclusive stories on the forget, for example, When the C. I. O. was organized it was undoubtedly true hacWe cannot 1934 the general textile progress of the Committee for Industrial Organization; that the A. F. of L. had refused to move with speed that would strikeduring the Governor of the state of 'News and Comment; Review-oCurrent Events; Politihave made it possible to take advantage of the opportunity to Georgia erected s, and in rue Nazi cal Outlook; Labor On Its Forward March; Editorials style, herded striking organize mass industries. That was a serious mistake of the A. ;extile workers into wide-ope- n conF. of L these are some of the exclusive features appearing in centration It was another mistake of the A. F. of L. to suspend cept for thecamps where they were the next 1 3 issues. duration of the strike. the ten great international unions affiliated with the C. I. O. This is perhaps one of the most There apparently is no longer any difference over the lagrant recent abuses of our civil question of industrial unionism. Both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. rights. for 13 Special unions are organizing along industrial lines. Thanks to the wise MANY THANKS . leadership of the C. I. O. Open to new readers only. We feel confident that the A. F. of L. leaders realize their New are rolling in past mistakes now and that only personal animosity, bitterness or tbe subscriptions Utah Labor News every Send 25 cents today for the next 3 issues of the most and false pride keep them from admitting publicly their mis- dav. Evidently the folks know a instructive and worth-whil- e takes and offering a hand of fellowship to the C. I. O. and tell- good paper wrhen they see it. This reading in Utah. week has been an Let's ing them, unite, and organize together all the unorganizexceptionally )usv one for new subscribers. ed workers of this nation by industries. new subscribers added to We have decided that neither William Green nor John L. theThe list this week are from Salt Lewis are the biggest factors in keeping the forces divided, but ,ake. Weber, Box Elder, Cache, avis. Tooele. Summit, Utah, Juab, that powerful allies of both are insisting on the continued diviCarbon. Grand and Iron counties. sion, allies that seemingly these leaders dare not oppose. 24 South 4th East St., Salt Lake City. States outside of Utah represented A happy ending of the situation would be for the A. F. of the new friends are WyoL. to lift the suspension of the C. I. O. unions. That would be among ming, Idaho, California, Montana, now oft-quot- ed now-famo- us en on. . I ; ur After have read this of the Utah Labor Hews union-- minded, inter-mounta- in f bull-pen- offer weeks, 25c 1 Utah Labor News |
