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Show I 7 UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JULY 23, 1937. TOOELE WELCOMES YOU Minors, Smelter ami Tunnel Workers arc a pari of Tooeles life. Labor anil Businessmen good town to live in. MINE, MILL ANI) SMELTER WORKERS MEET IN DENVER (Continued from page 1) ber of the executive board. The international union has chartered many local unions during the past year, and added thousands of new members. It is one of the original 10 international unions to form the Committee for Industrial Organization of which John L. Lewis is president. Continued Progress Continued progress of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers in which separate sections of the nation is reported by Secretary Sherwood from the organizations headquarters in Denver. Smelter workers employed in the American Smelting and Refining Companys mill at Leadville, Colo., will designate by ballot on July 2G their collective bargaining representative under the supervision of the National Labor Relations Board. Certification of the Labor Board was at the request of the concern and an overwhelming vote for the union is foreseen. In Perth Amboy, N. J., members of Local 365, employed in the worlds largest copper refinery of the American Smelting & Refining Company, after a three weeks strike secured a signed agreement that gave them a 1 cent per hour wage increase and sole collectivea bargaining rights. Previous to . votes to 239 for the company union, the company gave the workers a OH cents an hour wage increase. A three-da- y strike of Local 371, Los Angeles Metal Workers resulted in an agreement in which a minimum wage was obtained and other conditions secured benefiting 80 per cent of the workers. In East St. Louis, 111., Local 297, Tar and Chemical Workers won wage proposals but the concern refused to sign an agreement giving the union sole collective bargaining rights. Petitions have been filed with the National Labor Board agreement. Furseeking a one-yether developments are expected if this is not obtained. City officials of Idaho Springs and Lawson, Colo., prevented union organizers of .the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers from holding a public meeting, it was charged by Secretary Sherwood in Denver Monday. Secretary Sherwood expects to lay the facts before Governor Teller Ammons sometime this week with a view to obtaining some action. Sherwood charged that their constitutional rights were violated. Charters were issued to recently organized locals in Alaska, Utah, Arizona, Texas and Maryland. 999 ar LABOR ON ITS Success for Tooele Local FORWARD MARCH Unions 55 and 65 SELVINS Outfitters for the Whole Family Ready to Wear and Shoes TOOELE, UTAH Success to Labor George Kostello General Merchandise We Want Your Trade If Good, Reliable Goods, Lowest Possible Prices, Fair and Square Dealing, Polite Attention, will get it, we can count on you for a Customer. TOOELE, UTAH 7 WELCOME, LABOR When In Tooele Its Tunnel Cafe UNION HOUSE DELL HANSEN, Prop. Friend of Labor CONSUMERS TOOELE Labor board supervised election, in which tho bona fide union won by (Continued from Page 6) Workers of America will open C. headquarters in Washington, D.Mr. at 1627 K street, N. W., and Flaxer will wage a vigorous campaign of organization throughout the country. The Committee for Industrial Organization will provide adequate funds for the promotion of this organizing campaign and assign organizers to wTork under the immediate direction of Mr. Flaxer, and we are confident that these local government employes will be quick to take advantage of an opportunity to join this organization. State, county and municipal employes who are regularly employed shall be eligible to membership except elective officers, executives with authority to hire and discharge, police officers, military forces, fire fighters, and educational workers. During the period of intensive organization, dispensation of an initiation fee will be granted to incoming members. Dues for membership to the State. County and Municipal Workers of America shall be one dollar per Best Wishes to Tooele Labor Home Town Bakery George Mentos TOOELE, UTAH COAL CO. Highest Quality Union Mined Coal M. H. OSTLER, Manager FRIEND OF LABOR Phone 48 Phone UTAH Best Wishes to Tooele Labor Cullimore Cash Store FRIENDS OF ORGANIZED LABOR TOOELE, UTAH Best Wishes to I. U. of M., M. & S. W. Tooele Mercantile Co. A HOME OWNED INSTITUTION Where Quality as Well as Price Determines Value UNION MADE GOODS AT DEPENDABLE PRICES co-opera- to make Tooele a te A FIRMLY ROOTED MOVEMENT By Len I)e Caux j If some people cant see the! wood for the trees, when it comes to the C. I. 0. there are more who cant see the trees for the w?ood. The impact of this new move-me- n on the public mind has been tremendous. It has caled forth emotional and political responses never before excited by labor organization. A magic symbol to millions of working people, an Open Sesame to happier days, the letters C. I. 0. are used like an epithet of a curse of those haves who fear loss of their special privileges through organization of the have-not- s. Many friends and foes alike are thus inclined to see the C. I. O. only as a great wood. They argue pro and con in slogans and terms of general principle, not getting down to cases and quiet actualities. ' They do not look at all the individual trees that make up this trees with' roots mighty forest sunk far into the soil of American life, trees that may be swayed but cannot be uprooted by passing storms, trees with sturdy trunks and branches that have just begun to grow. News Versus Truth Accepted newspaper practice and the sloganized character of popular political anneal are chiefly responsible for the prevalent misconceptions about the C. I. 0. Nothing becomes news until it is unusual, spectacular or violent. War is news, peace is not. A strike is news, contracts negotiated withn out a strike are not. strikes receive the same kind of attention as an epidemic or flagpolesitting. An effective organizing campaign can be carried through peacefully and thoroughly, raising Sit-dow- month per member, properly distributed between the local union and the national office. The tax paid to the national office shall be used for the set-u- p at the proper time of state organizations the adjustment of grievances, and for educational and organizing purposes. Except in cases of large cities where the national offices may find it necessary to issue local charters in accordance with governmental departmental subdivisions, or in small cities where one charter will cover all state, county and municipal employes seeking membership in this organization, the national officers of the State, County, and Municipal Workers of America shall charter all local and other organizations in accordance with the following general plan: (1) One local charter to all municipal employes in any one particular city in a state. (2) One local charter to all county employes in any one particular city in that county. (3) One local charter to all state employes in anv one particular city in that state. (4) All locals in any particular state to be set up as a part of a state wide organization at the discretion of the national officers. Abraham Flaxer, executive vice president of the State, County and Municipal Workers of America, has lived mostly in New York City. He was educated at the College of the City of New York and Columbia University, and has a Bachelor of Science degree from the College of the City of New York. He did graduate work in mathematics at Columbia University. He worked as a social worker for the City of New York, and organized a union and had it affiliated with the A. F. of L. He was president and full time general manager of the New York local union, and at the first convention of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes, was elected vice president of the national union. Albert B. England Shoe Repairing, Harness and Hardware TOOELE, UTAH Friend of Organized Labor the living standards of hundreds of thousands and bringing order out of chaos to a whole industry, and it wont receive as much news attention as the fantastic ravings of a few blatherskites and who chance to have a forum in prominent places. So the press picture of the C. I. 0. is painted in the colors of conflict-conflict with the A. F. of L., conflict with the employers and conflict now with all the embattled forces of reaction. Little or no attention is left for the actual major activities of the C. I. O. which have rooted it so firmly in the American red-baite- rs 6C6T16. Work Of the C. I. () y work of The actual the C. I. 0. is carried on by hundreds of organizers working under Day-To-D- ter sent by the Textile Workers Organizing Committee to its regional directors, lists agreements signed with 39 more companies in all branches of the industry since the previous issue. new locals were in the period and 12,000 Twenty-nin- e formed workers were brought under the benefits of the new agreements, bringing the total to more than 130,000 since the drive began. Yet in the same period only four strikes were called, and eight were satisfactorily ended. That is the sort of proportion that is typical of C. I. O. organizFor every hundred ing work. workers that may become involved in an unavoidable strike, tens of thousands are organized and obtain their union objectives without a strike and in a quiet way that attracts no newspaper attention. ay day-to-da- the direction of the national office and regional directors, hundreds more working for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, hundreds more for the Textile Committee, and still further hundreds under the direction of the individual C. I. 0. unions. Leaf through the stacks of individual weekly reports that come to headquarters from these organizers, if you want to get a true picture of the real C. I. O. These reports tell of contracts made with thousands upon thousands of workers in every city, through meetings, leaflets distribution and personal visits. They tell of so many joining the union here and so many there, of new locals formed, plant elections won and other evidences of the present tremendous influx of new union members. The reports tell of negotiations in progress with hundreds of different companies. They tell of new contracts won daily in nearly every industry and district. And only occasionally, here and there, do they tell of strikes most of them speedily concluded with satisfactory agreements. Every one of these new union contracts Won by the C. I. 0. in increasing numbers, mean higher wages and better conditions for the workers and better regulated business. They mean that many more workers converted to unionism and the C. I. 0. by practical benefits rather than by emotional appeals. They mean a solid base for the C. I. 0. in the reasoned loyalty of new thousands of workers. They mean an acceptance of collective by employers who bargaining never dealt with a union before. Few Strikes In Textiles The last issue of the weekly let day-by-d- ay SIKES MISSION SERVICE Texaco and Firestone Products Corner 1st North and Main Tooele, Utah Friends of Lalmr BEST WISHES TO LABOR Bryan Plumbing and Hardware Company Phones Office 200 18 Best Quality Union Mined Liberty Coal ATKIN BROS. COAL CO. Inc. Phone 82 New Town Friends of Labor Labor Always Welcome Teds Tunnel UNION HOUSE A. Graham Dealer II. (Ted) Barton, Prop. Friend of Labor Local and Eastern Beers Tooele General Repairing, Acetylene Welding, Cylinder Reboring Day and Nite Towing Friends of Organized Labor North Main Street TOOELE, UTAH Friends of Labor JOHNSON GARAGE Phone 192 Res. 201 All Union Made 17 N. Main Tooele, Utah GOOD FURNITURE, GOOD SERVICE, REASONABLE TERMS FURNITURE, FLOOR COVERINGS, RANGES FURNITURE COMPANY TATE-HICK- S TOOELE, UTAH OUR GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES TO ORGANIZED LABOR Allens Cash Store 100 Per Cent Union Market TOOELE, UTAH YOUR FRIENDS MY SINCERE WISHES FOR SUCCESS TO THE MINERS AND SMELTERMEN TOOELE BEVERAGE CO. HARRY CARAPLIS, Manager Distributor BECKERS BEST, UINTA CLUB, AND BUDWEISER BEER Union Made BEVERAGES and COCA COLA TOOELE, UTAH Phone 138 83 NORTH BROADWAY" |