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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JULY TIIE MAN AND THE MACHINE (Continued from page 1) parts of the machines which they automatically operate. In old en days these men were counted as "souls. Today they are enumerated as "hands." It is a great engineering accomplishment to create a ma chine which displaces hundreds of men who formerly made a comfortable living through old methods of production. And it is still more wonderful to invent a robot a man made of steel and filled with wheels who responds to the pressing of a button at the side of an executives desk, doing automatically what formerly required the efforts of a human being. But mass production and automatons have brought with them new problems. Their creation has not settled the labor question they have intensified it. After the engineers have done their very commendable jobs, it is going to take all the wisdom of the economists and sociologists, all the ingenuity of the capitalists, to say nothing of the deep understanding of the statesmen and the cooperation of the public, to solve the human problems which mass produc tion has brought with it. FAIR WEATHER FRIENDS 16, 1937. Headline Stories in The Utah Labor News Launches a Huge is the Electric lower Program, in Labor Utah the headline story conies News next week. The story direct from the Executive Mansion at Madison, Wisconsin, from no lesser a person than Governor Philip F. La Follette. It is a special to the Utah Labor News. A Firmly Itooted Movement, feature is another interesting headliner in next weeks Utah Labor News. It's by Len I)e Caux. If some people cant see the w'ood for the trees, when it comes to the C. I. 0. there are more who cant Wisconsin of the full measure of liberal sym pathy. However, there was too see the trees for the wood, notes this able writer. I do enjoy reading your editorials, said the Utah Labor News reader this week. They hit the nail squarely on the head. Keep up the great work. Heres my sub- scription for another year. Our business is good, said the Utah Labor News publisher. New subscriptions are pouring in and old friends are renewing and paying up arrearages. Advertisers appreciate that this paper is eag erly read by the best paid workers in Utah and thats the secret of activity in our office. LABOR ON ITS majority. That leaves the Utah Copper Open Pit as the last big mine in the state, which is not organized. I)o you know how long copper is going to be at a good price and tolerable working conditions prevail? NO! Do you believe any person or corporation is more Jealg ous and wary for your than the rest of the miners, mill-meand smeltermen of the State? Do you think for a minute that they will continue to handle the rock you dig while you bask in the sunlight of their gains, represented in wage rates and general working conditions? This paper speaks for 9,000 mine, mill, and smeltermen of this state. We invite you to join us, for your own benefit, as well as ours. You cannot occupy the position of an ostrich with its head buried a foot in the sand and ignore your responsibilities as miners and workmen in this state. Breathes there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said, 'This is my own, my native land.' Scott. well-bein- n, much valuable machinery where FORWARD MARCH they were sitting down, so the companies did not demand violen from page 4) attacks on them which might have Sheet(Continued & Tube Co. are still holding destroyed this costly machinery as out WEEK STATUTE against signing an agreement. well as less costly lives. So no S. W. 0. C. officials state, however, SIGNED BV GOV. EARLE and were killed, you strikers couldnt reprove them for violence that an agreement with Youngstown is confidently expected soon. HARRISBURG, Pa. (AFLNS) Squalls and Squawks A Fourth of July mass meeting Governor Earle signed the bill enBut the line between enough am too far seems definitely to have of 00,000 coal miners at Johnstown, acted by the recent session of the been crossed, in your opinion, in in sympathy with the steel strikers, state legislature limiting the work was announced by James Mark, (Continued on Page C) the present steel strike. S. C. W. leader. 0. the In the first place, independ ent steel companies refused to sign OPEN FORUM any collective bargaining agree- MESSAGE TO UTAH COPPER ment with the Steel Workers Or OPEN PIT MINERS Keen Polk wll give the address Their emganizing Committee. at the Open Forum on Sunday, From The Spokesman ployes had to strike to win their 18, at 8 p. m., at the City and July in Let us recount the history legal rights. This was distressing, building. His subject will County the back door yard of past be Israelism for you naturally love labor much your National. Smelt-ermen- s two Garfield months. The its more when things come easily A. Geo. Udell, Chairman. Union is formed to the way, and you have to be so alert to reprove when it has difficulties and tune of better than 900 men. These needs real friends, not your kind, boys smelt the rock you dig. DurBest Wishes to Labor But still the line wasnt quite ing June the Magna and Arthur passed until the violence started. mills have joined our union and What violence? Well, the com have a working majority. These Milwaukee panies had the strikers out in the men mill the rock you dig. Another streets this time, so their machin week or two will see the Arthur and ery was safe. Unarmed pickets Magna Mills with an overwhelming were attacked with tear gas, clubs, gunfire by police and company WELCOME, LABOR Union Made for 85 Years gunmen. Thirteen men, all strikwere ers or strike sympathizers, Also Lucky Lager HARRY GRAY shot or clubbed to death and Invites His Labor Friends more seriously injured. scores Owner and Exclusive and Patrons of Distributors of Scabs, police and of course the columnists and other writers who ALTA CLUB GINGER ALE, new LOCATIONhis cheered them on came off unLIME RICKEY, , scathed. ,t SPARKLING ASSOCIATED This violence was more than any CARBONATED WATER, OIL and GAS STATION friends could stand, WHITE SODA the last straw, naturally. It was rain-dro1st South & 1st West NELSON-ANSOor rather the first CO., INC. Really now the C. I. 0. had gone too far! 5 130 Lubrication Av. Was. Pacific Complete umSo out came your anti-labSalt Lake City, Utah Service brellas, and some of you have been wielding them like clubs on the heads of workers who have dared to face clubbing and massacre for ' demanding their collective bargainBest Wishes to Our Friends Who Labor ing rights. BUY NOW AND SAVE Peculiar Pontiffs Explain it as one may, however, We are out of the high rent district; own our own building; buy the liberal pontiffs of the press in car lots for our different stores and take advantage of all cash who designate themselves as pubdiscounts. Open an Account lic opinion are still a mystery to EVERYTHING TO FURNISH THE HOME most, in times like these. t, demagogue-for-profiThe the GRANITE FURNITURE COMPANY Congressman who will bellow his 1050 E. 21st South, Sugarhouse Park City head off against labor at a minMurray utes notice, the press prostitutes who shriek Bolshevism at any strike, we all know. We also are becoming all too familiar with the potential Fascists, the vigilantes, gangsters, ilx I5& n ifOsi leaguers and other hirelings who fondle their guns and plot their kidnapings, slug-gingframeups and murders whenever labor is on the march. 33R But where do the liberals come in at a time like this? What red-mehave they been eating that they turn so ferociously on the labor victims of reactionary violence ? From what front do they draw their flood of crocodile tears for the scabs, weaklings and gunmen who stand in the way of better conditions for the steel workers ? 44-IIO- By LEN DE CAUX A number of labors friends seem to have run into squalls of late. Reactions same yelping pack of bloodhounds that but recently was concentrating on Roosevelt and the New Deal, is now hard on the trail of the C. I. 0. Behind it follows a poodle and lapdog pack of erstwhile liberals, adding their yipe to the hue and fair-weath- er cry. Whats all this yapping about the C. I. O. going too far, dear former friends ? Why all these re- proving columns and editorials? Why all these references to aroused public opinion? At what precise point did the T Next Week... Of course you want t the 4 will give you the truth in next weeks issue and all the issues following will contain editorials, special articles and features, specially written by writers who know their economics, politics and the needs of the people. If you are not .already a subscriber become one NOW. Only $1.50 per year 52 and instructive issues. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 t 4 4 4 t 4 4-- 4 4- - 1, ij, .;x. Old-fashion- ed fair-weath- er facts The Utah Labor News 4.4. I. 0. cease to go far enough and go too far? We have it on your own admission that you are friends of the downtrodden, haters of dictator ship and boosters for democracy. Does such sweet friendship cease when labor gets tired of being downtrodden and decides to stand up for itself ? The idea used to be that union organization was democratic because it gave more people a voice in what their conditions should be. liberals used to reserve their cracks about dictatorship for the corporations who de nied employes their union rights. But now its all so confusing. Smooth Sailing Is Respectable - Apparently the C. I. 0. had not gone too far before the steel strike at any rate not too far for friends. It had your permission to organize the steel workers and win a contract with the U. S. Steel Corp. without a single serious strike. It has been permissible too, it ap pears, to win contracts from 3G0 tetixle companies which have had the intelligence to accord collective bargaining rights to their em ployes. When other big corporations in a dozen other industries have likewise yielded to C. I. O. organization without any particular violent resistance, it has also been all right with you. Of course, we recognize that friendship 'was severely strained, and in some spots broken, when General Motors refused to grant its employes their collective bar gaining rights and drove them to their last resort, a strike. 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