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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE 18, 1937. 7 a fair chance to express itself on WAGE AND HOURS LAW WOULD GENERAL WHOSE ARMY the real issues, there is no doubt ELIMINATE CAUSES OF INSTABILITY IS ON THE OTHER SIDE that it would show the great army The Clack Connery minimum are many and serious, Oliver conand maximum hour bill, as- tinued. The worker and his famwage that minimum, wage an ily are the first and the greatest suming maximum hour standards are prop- sufferers, but every part of the naerly set, will go far towards elimi- tion feels directly or indirectly the nating the causes of industrial in- consequences of low labor standstability and of unemployment, E. ards. , . . The bill now before your L. Oliver, executive vice president committee supplements the provisof Labors League ions of the National Labor Relalast w'eek told a joint house anc tions Act by protecting the ethical senate labor committee conducting and enlightened employer, by prohearings on this legislation. tecting the worker who cannot be The depression which began in reached speedily and effectively 1929 and which unfortunately, is through labor unionism, and by still too much with us has con- permitting the. improvement of vinced the workers of the country wage and hour standards in that that low wages and long hours are section of industry where labor oramong the primary causes of our ganization and collective bargaineconomic troubles, Oliver stated. ing have been accepted. It is unnecessary to offer to your has consistently reflected the idea LABOR ON ITS conclusion; governmental policy has consistently reflected the idea FORWARD MARCH since 1933. The purchasing power of American workers has lagged, (Continued from Page 4) while their productivity rose. the C. I. 0. in St. Los to Citing statistics on wages ant Angeles, New York, Louis, Cleveland, the hours in several states, Newark, Reading, Philavice president pointed out Chicago, Leagues and San Francisco. delphia to the joint congressional commitThos.- Andert, 407 Fullerton tee that while some employers St. electee was Mo., Louis, Bldg., have sought to meet low wage chairman of the comcompetition by increased mechani- mittee set up by organizing the convention, zation of their establishments, others and sometimes whole indus- and Thos. Cerstacker, secretary. tries, have migrated to low wage ROCKFORD, 111. (UNS) C.I.O. areas in response to unhealthy have announced tha; organizers competitive conditions. will follow up the organizathey Sought to Ileduce Costs tion of the J. I. Case Company with Employers have sought to re- a drive on all the metal working duce their costs by flitting from shops in Rockford. state to state, Oliver said. Continuing along this line in N. Y. TEACHERS PASS general support of the legislation PRO-C.I.RESOLUTION he emphasized that the first condition for establishing some sort NEW YORK (UNS) Delegates of law and order in industry is to of the New York City Teachers put a floor under wrage rates and Union, largest local in the Ameria roof on the hours worked. can Federation of Teachers, wil conditions have be instructed to vote for affiliation had one other very serious conse- with the C.I.O. at the national conquence, Oliver told the members of vention to be held in August. The the committee. He stated: resolution of instructions which The leaders of American labor was passed unanimously at a rehave long since recognized what is cent membership meeting, will be now generally accepted as govern- submitted for a referendum vote mental policy, that the develop- and is expected to get practically ment of collective bargaining is 100 per cent approval. the best protection not only of the workers but also of industry itself. MAINE SHOE PLANT The organization of labor and the ELECTIONS GO C.I.O. setting of wages and hours and other standards by negotiations beLEWISTON, Me. (UNS) Worktween representatives of employ- ers of two of the 19 Auburn-Lew-isto- n ers and of workers is clearly the shoe companies involved In only sound foundation for our eco- the general strike which has been nomic structure. The National going on for nearly three months, Labor Relations Act was designed voted for the C.I.O. union in electo remove, and is in fact removing, tions held under the supervision of some of the major barriers to col- the National Labor Relations lective bargaining, but the exist- Board. ence of extremely bad employment The Clark and the Augusta shoe conditions in areas and under con- companies as a result of the ditions beyond the immediate reach vote of their employes will of labor organization is almost as be forced to recognize the United much of a barrier to collective bar- Shoe Workers as the collective gaining as are the practices dealt bargaining agency in the two with in the Labor Relations Act. plants. Employers under competitive presEmployes of three other compasure seek to evade the provisions nies previously cast a majority of of their agreements with labor their votes in favor of the C.I.O. unions; they sometimes seek to es- union. cape to regions where they feel that labor unionism cannot de- 14,000 A. F. OF L. SHOE velop. Employers resist organiza- WORKERS JOIN C.I.O. tion of their workers, often because they believe increased wages New YORK (UNS) Seven lowill follow hours shortened cals of the Boot and Shoe Workers and and will make continued competi- Union with a membership of 14,000 have voted to affiliate with the tive operation impossible. Serious Effects Committee for Industrial OrganiAt this point Oliver alluded to zation. At a mass meeting held in certain sections of the proposed Arcadia Hall, Brooklyn, 7,000 minimum wage, minimum hour bill workers voted unanimously to acwhich go beyond the regulation of cept the motion of the executive labor standards. He advised the board, Joint Council No. 26, recomcommittee to give very careful con- mending affiliation. sideration to those parts of the The seven locals, which comprise measure, and to leave for future Joint Council No. 26, belonged to sections of the bill ;he American Federation of Labor, handling, which gave the proposed Labor yut discouraged with their long Standards Board under certain struggle for autonomy, they final-- y decided to break away and join conditions, the power to set a minimum fair wage and a maximum ;he other shoe unions of the counreasonable work week. He referred try now affiliated to the. United the committee to the experience Shoe Workers of the C.I.O. with such standards under the Among the speakers at the meet1920. ing were Dorothy Bellanca, of the Transportation Act of The effects of low wage and Amalgamated Clothing Workers; long hours in American industry Arturo Giovannitti, C.I.O. organ- Non-Partis- an - Sub-standa- rd pro-C.I.- (Continued from Page 1) the east who have voted to join the many other cities are strongly United Electrical & Radio Workers of the C.I.O. It includes a dozen other interIt includes some 75,000 members national unions whose members of the Carpenters union, in the favor industrial organization and lumbfcr industry, who have repeat- are likely soon to be in the C.I.O., edly indorsed the C.I.O. and are in some cases with, and in others now about to vote on affiliation. without the consent of their offiIt includes the Inti. Seamens cials. It includes scores of A.F. of L. union, whose West Coast members in the Maritime Federation are ag- federal unions now swinging in a I. O., and whose body to the C.I.O., as has recently gressively pro-Eastern members are turning en been the case with the aluminum, masse toward the C.I.O. through distillery, office and optical ers. the Natl. Maritime Union. A critical examination of the Retail Clerks It includes the Retail Clerks alleged membership of the A. F. Inti. Protective Assn., a large part of L., as against that of the C.I.O., of whose membership has now soon narrows it down to a small formed the United Retail Em- group of unions in the building inployes of the C.I.O. dustry and a few other fields. And It includes the Hotel & Restau- even in these the amount of sentiment is formidable. rant Employes Inti. Alliance, In fact, if the rank and file had whose members in New York and pro-C.I.- of American labor to be all on the C.I.O. side, with but a few exgenerals and at least one colonel milling around on the side of O. labors adversaries. C. I. (). Marches Forward of The increasing swing-ove- r is L. unions from the A. F, of of the an accompaniment merely main increases in C.I.O. meml?r-shiwhich result from organization of the unorganized. While steel, auto, electrical, textile and other C.I.O. unions push into the hundreds of thousands of new members, newly appointed C.I.O. regional directors and field p, C. k pro-C.I.- O. The Last One In The last one in i3 a sissy . . . izer and Italian poet; and Mary Donovan .Hapgood, of the C.I.O. New England Council. A year ago the Joint Councils charter was revoked when the members refused to accept an agreement made by President John J. Mara with a shoe manufacturer. The contract wras negotiated without the knowledge or consent of the local members. The Joint Council had to resort to court action to secure the restoration of the charter. but The season of the year is here when the above will be often heard at the ole swimmin hole at the beach and mountain lake resort. Yes, the last one in is a sissy but the last one out is the one who gets drowned. There is no use blinking at the fact. Hundreds of boys and girls who go swimming this summer will go for the last time. The BAYONNE. N.J. (UNS) Truck drivers of the Tide Water Oil Co. refinery have been organized 100 per cent by the C.I.O. number of prospective drownings this year can be greatly reduced if swimmers will pair off in buddies, keeping an eye on each other. Some people are in misery paying for past mistakes their own and others. But they dont have to pay too much attention to the misery. Invalids to whom most of the world is shut. out will often find a world of satisfaction in books, flowers, radio, and their Utah bor News. representatives are spreading unionism into a hundred other previously unorganized territories. In the past few weeks, some 30 regional C.I.O. offices have been established in charge of regional directors. Scores of field representatives have also been employed to work under these directors. This activitty is all directed to new territory and does not include the organizing work of the C.I.O. internationals and organizing committees in particular industries. In the textile industry, close to 500 organizers are in the field; in steel and autos, hundreds more; and scores more of C.I.O. organizers have recently been put on for intensive organizing in the electrical, utility, communications and other industries. New' local industrial unions directly chartered by the C.I.O. have now reached the number of 96, and hundreds more applications are under consideration. The C.I.O. is putting on the camgreatest union organizing ' while in human paign history; A. F. of L. leaders, having already lost the majority of organized workers to the C.I.O., are simply fooling around in a vain effort to check this drive. A RARE OFFER TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS 1 AND THE i La R All Six For One Year Heres What You Get! O. .... ..... .... McCALLS MAGAZINE - - - PICTORIAL REVIEW WOMANS WORLD GOOD STORIES COUNTRY HOME UTAH LABOR NEWS OTW 1 Year 1 Year 1 Year 1 Year 1 Year 1 Year REGULAR VALUE $4.50 $50 M YOU SAVE $2.00 REMEMBER You get all six publications for one full year, and if you are now a subscriber to any of these publications, your subscription will be extended one year. ALL READERS of THE UTAH LABOR NEWS should accept this rare offer before we have to withdraw it. 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