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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JULY 23, 1937. 6 MIDVALE GREETS YOU Hundreds of Members of the International Union of Mine, JIill and Smelter Workers Work ad Live in Midvale, a City of Happy Homes. COOPERATIVE LABOR ON ITS WISCONSIN LAUNCHES A HUGE NEWS NOTES ELECTRIC POWER PROGRAM FORWARD MARCH (Continued from page 2) municipal ownership of utilities; moral enough. But those buyers (2) to furnish technical and super- are encouraged totninKthat every visory services for the above agen- other merchant who charged them cies and even private plants; and a standard price is a thief. The (3) to build and operate generat- psychology is therefore, Come, ing plants to produce and sell twy from me! Im a good fellow, power. whereas the other lellow is a Education Promotion thief. The annual state appropriation Gambling For Volume of $60,000 is, of course, limited to The merchant then gambles that educational and promotional activthe consumer will buy enough exities. Other activities of the Aumerchandise so that tho total tra thority, it is contemplated, will be financed from funds derived from sale will average out to his gain, the federal government, municipal- the merchants only protection is ities, municipal power districts, the large volume. That is where electric cooperatives, and private the real savings are in the mersources. For example, supervisory chandising game VOLUME. Most purand technical services, such as en- of the talk about large-scal- e is ballyhoo finantoday power chasing and gineering, accounting, cial work, will be furnished on a advertising. Much of it is downcost basis to agencies desiring right dishonest. 1 enjoy a good pinochle game, them. Most immediate concern of the myself. It is a pleasure to inatcn works of internal imporvement. Authority will be the continuation wits with someone else on the card and in social Long a forerunner and coordination of the states to play and the hand to get. But to economic legislation such as wor- outstanding rural electrification see men whiling their time away in kmens compensation, unemploy- program. Rural electrification co- a pool hall, poring over the same ment insurance, and the income ordination, a state agency estab- old cards, the same old tricks,, is tax, Wisconsins new power pro- lished by Governor La Follette, has disgusting. It is a picture of hugram is its latest wrinkle in con- supplied the educational assistance manity in the process of decay. The structive legislation. do- gambling practices of pool hall Mazing a for development of a new trail, Governor La Follettes llar state REA program. Since the men and merchants do have their plan proposes a unified statewide coordinations administrative funds similarities. Culture are exhausted, the Authority will power development. Three general functions are in- absorb this agency and continue Ferhaps the best way to think of cluded in the provisions of the the rural electrification program. these problems is to put these Wisconsin Development Authority Is Needed questions to you for your thoughts: law. They are (1) to carry on There is a special need of such What kind of culture is cultivatpromotional work, including the an agency in the municipal power ed in a pool hall ? What about the organization of rural electric co- district field. Although the state similar characteristics of men ventoperatives, municipal power dis- - power district law has been on the ing their gambling instinct in pool statute books since 1931, almost no halls and in merchandising methuse has been made of it because ods related partially above. Best Wishes to You, Midvale there has been no central guiding What kind of reaction do you get Mill and Smeltermen agency to assist in the formation from a fellow whose attitude is of such districts. Im a good fellow!? Is he culWritten by La Follette adminis- tured? Dignified? Can you see tration aides and designed to carry this characteristic in the newsout the utility platform pledges of paper ads? Does advertising apthe Progressive party, the power peal to intelligence or lack of inbill was introduced in both legisla- telligence ? tive houses three months ago after There are other questions but I 214 Phone the WDA corporation had been in- wish to avoid a great cynicism. Night corporated by twelve prominent Just one more: Is not the picture Day Phone 48 citizens. of this whole thing repulsive to 36 W. Center - A. C. Troester The bill was sponsored in the you; and, is it not repulsive to lower house by Assemblyman An- think you have to be a part of the Friends of Labor drew Biemiller, Progressive, Mil- picture Y waukee, and in the senate by RoOur modern merchandising methland E. Kannenberg, Progressive, ods are encumbered with gambling Wausau. After many wrangling which means that they are systemand opposition-maneuvere- d debates atic. The more system there is in Welcome, and Best Wishes to the Biemiller bill finally anything, the less gambling. PresiMill delays, and Smelter Midvale passed the assembly with the de- dent Roosevelts Committee of InWorkers cisive vote of 54 to 36. Three Re- quiry slid over this point when publicans and five Democrats they underestimated the possibilijoined with a solid Progressive ties and necessity for cooperatives block to pass the bill. When mes- in the U. S. saged to the senate, the assembly Positive Correction bill was referred to the . finance The negative solution by laws committee. us from doing this, prohibiting After one of the most sensationMidvale, Utah and the other only gives us a that Wisconsin in al fights the legislaRalph W. Duvall, Prop. tive history, the companion senate greater speed in reverse. The posibill finally rode through to victory tive solution is for individuals reFRIEND OF LABOR in the upper house. It was this sponsibility in consumers cooperbill which became law by Governor atives. When and as the organization La Follettes signature after the and in measure. the concurred spirit of cooperation is develassembly WELCOME, oped we will have an economic Cheap Power Is Aim basis for honest and intelligent The administrations comprehenMidvale Mill & Smelter sive power program is of timely in- merchandising we will have an Workers terest infview of President Roos- economic and social basis for & evelts recent submission to con- really dignified culture. WE APPRECIATE YOUR Most people are too lazy or too gress proposing seven regional PATRONAGE TVAs. Wisconsins power law mentally tired to assume their ingives the Wisconsin Development dividual responsibility in a cooperAuthority the power to cooperate ative. But, as Dr. Samuel H. the federal government in Gorden says, If man is stupid it Peter C. Rasmussen with because he has inherited a starvcarrying out any such regional is ed human nature. He has had in area. this Quality Groceries program Bitterly assailed by big utility only a living wage or less. Fresh Meats the program produced Phone 252 Midvale interests, results even before its passage. large utilities in the state that Its threat brought voluntary re- fear the broad implications of the ductions in residential rates by La Follette power program. With the fundamental aim of bringing cheap and abundant elecEVERY DAY IS FLOWER DAY The Best of Luck tricity to every Wisconsin user, both actual and potential, the La To Midvale Follette power program is determined that the state will see much Mine & Smelter Phone: Midvale 49 greater reductions in electric rates in the future. The WDA law, Its Workers 17 North Main St. Midvale, Utah sponsors emphasize, has not idly been called the "little TVA, for it seeks to do in a smaller way for Wisconsin what the TVA is acSuccess to Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers complishing in the Tennessee Val(Continued from Face 1) No part of this power program is aimed at injuring the honest investor or his savings. On the contrary, the rights and savings of the prudent investors are entitled to and will receive protection. Wisconsin has always stood for orderly progress and today again our state takes another important step forward. In the years to come, I predict that this day will he remembered as a mile-ston- e marking the beginning of a sound and constructive program that will mean a great deal to the future prosperity of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Leads The La Follette administration invoked use of the private corporation, instead of creating a new state department or using the existing state utilities corporation, because the constitution specifically forbids the state from going into tricts and the encouragement of MIDVALE GARAGE non-partis- an IRIS THEATRE (Continued from Page 5) tion, second largest subway and surface transportation company in the city, to consent to an election for its 12,000 workers. Obtained an election for the 1200 employes of the Fifth Avenue Coach Company, set tentatively for July 14, with the T. W. U. confident of polling 90 per cent or better of the vote. Polled 93 per cent in elections among the 10,000 taxicab workers, becoming sole bargaining agent for employes of three of .the citys Syslargest fleets Sunshine-Radi- o tem, Inc.; Atlas Taxi Association; and Liberty Taxi Fleet. Obtained an election July 9, for the' 1000 drivers and mechanics employed by the Bell Transportation Company, last of the major taxi systems tackled by the T. W. U.'s Taxi Workers Organizing Committee. Third Avenue Contract The closed shop contract with the Third Avenue Railways System provides for wage increases of 10 per cent for motormen and conductors, 12V6 per cent for repair and shop employes; one weeks vacation this year and a tentative proviso for two weeks paid vacation next year. The Third Ayenue agreement is the first ever entered into by the company with a labor union. For 40 years, beginning in the days of the horse-draw- n trolleys, the Third Avenue Railway company fought unionism. Edward Levinson tells in his book, I Break Strikes, how the companuy spent more than $1,000,-00- 0 one year to smash a strike on its lines, employing the notorious finks and nobles and Bergoff throwing 752 strikers into jail in one day. I. O. ORGANIZES STATE. COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYES fecting these several groups, and has recognized the need of a national organization of state, county and municipal employes which would provide machinery to establish in the interest of the service a cooperative working relationship between them and their respective governmental administrations. Undoubtedly such . an organization should promote a better understanding between the government employes and the public, secure a higher standard of efficiency in and provide adequate service, machinery for the adjustment of grievances or disputes within the limits of law and sound public policy. The general methods to be employed by this union in achieving its aim shall be that of legislation and education. The use of strikes or picketing by the union shall be deemed a violation of the policy of this organization. The Committee for Industrial Organization has granted a charter of affiliation to this organization. Abraham Flaxer will be the executive and directing head of the union during the provisional period of its organization, and shall work directly under the supervision of the chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization. The State, County and Municipal (Continued on page 7) vice-preside- nt Welcome Best Wishes and Success to Midvale Organized Labor BLINNS PARLOR UNION MADE BEER ON TAP Soft Drinks, Cigars, Candies and Tobacco By D. & R. G. Depot Midvale Friends of Labor C. The following statement came to the Utah Labor News from John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Orgahization: Employes of state, county and municipal divisions of our government have long felt the need of an organization to promote their welfare and provide means for the adjustment of grievances arising through their employment. Realizing their inadequate protection because of their inability to take up grievances individually, numerous groups of these employes have formed local organizations through which it was proposed to promote their common welfare. These several local units have applied to the Committee for Industrial Organization for a charter of affiliation. The Committee for Industrial Organization has given seriousconsideration to the problems af- Best Wishes to Midvale Mill & Smelter Workers Boskovicli Sureway Grain & Produce Poultry and Dairy Feed Grain, Hay, Flour and Seed Dealer in Sperry Products Phone Midvale 315 BEST WISHES TO LABOR Use White-Lil- Labor, Enjoy a Glass of Union Made Beer Flour at MADE TO SATISFY by -- I - ' Phelps Floral Co. Williams Building Supply Co. Lumber Hardware Paint. Complete Building Service. Celotex, Insulating Cane Board, Roofing, Plumbing Phone Midvale 23 ley. Best Wishes to Labor West Jordan Lumber Go. KENNETH II. WILLIAMS, Mgr. FRIEND OF LABOR Dealers in Lumber, Coal, Hardware 7 and Paints y RAY VIHCEHTS . WEST JORDAN UNION HOUSE MILLING CO. Midvale, Utah Midvale, Utah I WELCOME, LABOR Best Wishes to Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Convention VINCENT DRUG CO. Phone 215 . MIDVALE, UTAH Friends of Labor Best Wishes to I. U. of M., M. & S. W. Convention LindaM Implement Co. J. I. CHASE FARM IMPLEMENTS COMPLETE LINE OF GENUINE CASE PARTS AND REPAIRS HEAVY HARDWARE 8750 So. State Midvale Junction, Utah Phone Midvale 1 |