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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, AUGUST 27. 1937. NON-PARTISA- LEAGUE NOTES N BY THEM DEEDS, NOT THEM WORDS, LABOR WILL JUDGE THEM to Washington. The organization has over 350,000 members. The American Radio Telegraphers association voted to support Labor does not intend to forget the activities of Labors Non-Pa- r nor forgive those congressmen who tisan League at its recent national have obtained the labor vote un convention. der false pretenses and have since embezzled it by opposing impor LABOR NEEDS MORE tant labor and progressive legisla GOVERNORS LIKE BENSON tion. Here are two statements in Minnesotas Governor Elmer A. dicating what labor intends to do about such congressmen when they Benson has put the Pinkerton de next come up for election. tective agency out of business in Sophus Bertelson of Ephraim in his state. He refused to renew the a recent issue of the Utah Labor agencys state license on the News said: grounds that Pinkertons union Probably our senior senator Lusting activities have been detri knows that at the expiration of his mental to the welfare of our peo present term he is through, llow pie. ever, I surely hope that he decides Citing the La Follctte commit to run again. It would be a source tees report on the activities of of great satisfaction to thousands Pinkerton under-covagents, Gov of loyal Roosevelt Democrats, in ernor Benson charged the agency to have the with fomenting trouble inside la eluding myself satisfaction of handing to him the bor unions and unrest in the nadefeat that no man more justly de tions communities. The Pinkerton agency has been served. And this is what Iowa labor used by employers to spy upon promises to its disloyal senators, union workers and federal offiaccording to the Iowa Union Labor cials, to steal union records and violate fedefal labor laws, to round Review: Iowa senators have shown up strike breakers and prolong inthemselves in their true colors by dustrial disputes. er ... their votes against Black-Conne- ry wage and hour bill. They have spurned the mandate of the voters given to Roosevelt and the party last November a clear mandate to enact reform legislation such as the bill they have voted against Gillette and Herrings sabotage of this measure will not be forgotten by Iowa labor anc they will take the necessary action at the first opportunity to retire these gentlemen to private life. Conflicts Without War Declaration ... (Continued from page 1) navy, and she has a soaring national debt. So here is another grave threat to world peace the gravest, perhaps that has yet appeared. Whether war is actually declared is only of theoretical importance to all intents and purposes a major war is now underway in the Far - Detailed records of how con- east, and interests directly affectgressmen voted on labor, farm and ing every nation in the world are liberal legislation are being com involved. piled at the headquarters of the Labors League and Business Activity will be made available for election A Business Week survey shows campaigns to labor organizations that business activity averaged 10 in all states and congressional dis- per cent higher in the first six tricts. months of 1937 than in the same period last year. LABOR SUPPORTS Steel production rose 35 per cent; MAYOR LaGUARDIA automobile production 12 per cent; residential construction 54 per IN N. Y. ELECTION cent; lumber production 8 per cent; The American Labor party of electric power output 13 per cent; New York, which is the Labors factory payrolls 29 per cent and in New York, has en factory employment 13 per cent. Farm prices rose 18 per cent; tered the municipal campaign with the endorsement of Mayor Fiorello construction costs zoomed 13 per LaGuardia and slate of labor can- cent; and department store prices didates for the city council. upped 7 per cent. Stocks averaged Pledged to do all in its power to 18 per cent higher and bonds 2 make New York City a 100 per per cent higher. cent union city, LaGuardia will receive the united backing of all or- LABOR ON ITS ganized labor. With a much more complete orFORWARD MARCH ganization than in 1936, the Amer ican Labor party, which rolled up (Continued from Page 2) one of the biggest labor votes in the presidential elections, is con- ;he Tacoma convention held in fident that all of its candidates July, include, besides Secretary Weber, Harold Pritchett, president; will be elected. In an official endorsement of La- O. M. Orton, first vice president, in Guardia, the American Labor par- charge of organization; and Fred equier, second vice president, in ty pointed out that the mayor has . . . career his charge of the Minnesota, Michigan public throughout the and Wisconsin area. right recognized consistently of workers to a decent livelihood, to American standards of living; TRANSPORT WORKERS that he always has been an up- SOLE UNION AGENCY FOR N. Y. TAXI COS. holder of collective bargaining. One of. its primary concerns in the campaign, the American Labor By Saul Mills a to reelect YORK was NEW (UNS) With a party announced, adforward-lookin- g e victory in a State La-Dprogressive Board poll of the 3500 Parme-e- e ministration which would strive to to give Transportation Company honestly and efficiently the C. I. O. Transport all its citizens the comforts and is Union is now sole barmodern Workers a city great protection reare We . . . for the entire taxiof gaining agency giving capable solved that the claws of Tammany cab industry of greater New York. shall never again regain their The Parmelee Company was the deadly clutch upon New York last of the major cab companies to submit to a collective bargaining York City. Non-Partis- Non-Partis- an an ;hree-to-on- or em-loye- s, election. New York the AmerIn ican Labor party has entered the municipal elections in Schenectady with a slate of two assemblymen, two councilmen and police judge. In connection with the local tions the Democratic party announced that it would not designate any candidate who is unable to secure American Labor party endorsement. The T. W. U. in New York already has closed shop contracts with the Terminal Taxi System, employing 1100 drivers; 25 fleet operators in the Sunshine-Radi- o System with 6000 employes; and the 24 fleet operators in the Atlas-Libert- y Fleet Owners Association with 4000 employes. The union is about to complete negotiations with the Bell Transportation System which has 1000 employes and will open negotiations soon with LEAGUE RECEIVES the Parmelee Company, largest ENDORSEMENT OF TWO fleet operator. UNIONS single BIG INTERNATIONAL The T. W. U.s victory in the An announcement that the pow- Parmelee election is its most sig--j the erful United Automobile Workers nificant accomplishment in Parme-lee- s On taxicab field. June 1, union will cooperate with Laborjs old company union obtained League in the political field was made by Homer Mar- a charter from the A. F. of L. tin, president, after a recent trip Teamsters Union and announced the signing of a closed shop agreement. The T. W. U. at that time described the A. F. of L. announcement as a company union deal and intensified its organiza tional work among Parmelee driv era. Failure of the A. F. of L. Team sters Local to participate in the State Board election and the com panys consent to the election in face of the June 1 announcement, was looked upon as confirmation of the T. W. U.s characterization of the A. F. of L. closed shop agreement. Contracts Cleared Up Chaos In all its taxi contracts the T. W. U. has obtained guaranteed week ly minimum wages, something un heard of before in the New York taxi industry. It also has obtainec shorter hours, vacations with pay, bonuses and insurance benefits for taxi drivers. Until the T. W. U. stepped into the picture the taxi industry had been described as the most cha otic by virtually every public of ficial in New York City. Credit for completing the C. I O. drive in New Yorks Taxi field, is due the T. W. U.s Taxi Workers Organizing Committee headed by international president Michael J. Quill; Eugene I. Connolly, director of the Taxi Division and Warren Horie, general . taxi organizer Chief spokesman for the T. W. U in signing the taxi contracts has been Harry Sacher, general counse" for the union. On the rapid transit front in New York, the T. W. U. retains its position on the winning side having on August 11 maneuvered the reB calcitrant and bitter anti-labM. T. corporation into contract negotiations. cent success, the T. W. U. is laying plans for a real drive in some of the East and cities. Until now it has been carrying on its national drive somewhat quietly, with organizers and field scouts mapping plans for the heavy T. W. U. drives soon to come in many cities. mid-We- UNION HEAD GETS EVEN WITH ONE-TIM- E BOSS NEW YORK (UNS) Six years ago Lewis Merrill, president of the United Office and Professional Workers, was fired from his job at the N. Y. Credit Clearing House for union activity. It was with conflicting emotion, therefore, on the morning of August 11, 1937, that Merrill opened a letter from his former employer, Joseph Cavanaugh, president of the Clearing House where he once worked, agreeing to recognize the union he now heads, as the collective bargaining agent for employes of the New York office. Negotiations for a signed contract will be held with Merrill representing the union and the man who fired him acting for the company. The union is demanding a general salary increase of 25 per cent, two weeks vacation with five-da- y week and pay, a r, other improved working conditions. no-accid- or Lewis Letter to B. M. T. Following the T. W. U.s three-to-on- e victory in a collective bar gaining poll of B. M. T. workers on July 31, William S. Menden, president of the second largest rapid transit system in the city, wrote John L. Lewis an open letter appealing to the C. I. O. leader to have the T. W. U. respect existing contracts between the B. M. T. and its old company union set-uthe Lewis reply to Menden was brief and to the point: You suggest that the election the Transport . . designating Workers Union of America as the collective bargaining agency for your employes be tossed to the winds so that you may continue to deal not with a bona fide union but with an illegal organization created by the company. . . . You ask that American Labor give way to unfair and outmoded means of collective bargaining. . . . Such a proposal is unacceptable on its face. . . The proper proceduce is for you to begin negotiations immediately with the Transport Workers st 35-hou- UNION CHEMIST GETS JOB BACK NEW YORK (UNS) In the first case heard by the National Labor Relations Board involving discrimination against chemists for union activity, charges filed by the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians, C. I. O. affiliate, against the Cosmopolitan Chemical Co. of Long Island City have been sustained. The company has been ordered to reinstate a discharged chemist who was a leader of the union in the plant, and to give him the back pay due him since his dismissal. tional Silk Spinning Co., Royal Weaving Co., Susquehanna Silk Co., and many others. Other 'textile Contracts The T. W. O. C. concluded during the past week a number of agreements with textile concerns, other than silk, and covering about 6000 workers. These include wool, cordage and yarn companies, with plants in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Vermont and Rhode Island. The T. W. O. C. has made public a list of chain companies which are completely organized and have agreements, covering about 40,000 workers. The list includes 11 chains in the rug and carpet, rayon and silk industries. WINS CONTRACTS IN ICE CREAM INDUSTRY NEW YORK (UNS) The United Ice Cream Workers, Chartered a little more than a month ago by the Committee for Industrial Organization has already signed contracts with the Meadow Gold Products Corp., subsidiary of the Beatrice Creameries in Chicago, and the Alaska Frozen Products Co. Both plants are in Brooklyn and together employ 250 workers. The agreements provide for a 10 to' 15 per cent wage increase, reduction in hours and a closed Contracts have also been shop. signed with the Ebling Ice Cream Co., and the Smith Brothers Ice Cream Co. The C. I. O. campaign to organize the ice cream industry is starting with the smaller plants first, Allan Haywood, C. I. O. regional director said, to eliminate the possibility of wage chiselling by smaller firms. This will set a standard for the market, and squash the argument of the large concerns that the smaller unorganized companies prevent setting up a fixed wage level. Following the drive on small producers, the union will seek contracts with the big associations which produce 70 per cent of the citys ice cream. These include the Pioneer Ice Cream Brands, Inc., which markets Bordens, Reids, Hortons, Fussels and Ricciardi brands, and the National Dairies, parent organization of Brewers, Hydrox, Castles and Consolidated. C. I. O. BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (UNS) Employes of the Bryant Electric Co., local Westinghouse subsidiary, voted 779 to 269 for the United Electrical & Radio Workers, C. I. O. union. Negotiations for a signed METAL HOSE UNION WINS contract are under way. VOTE AND GETS CONTRACT SILK STRIKE WINS NEW YORK (UNS) Wage inPACTS WITH FIRMS of five to ten per cent, a creases EMPLOYING 18,000 seniority rights system, a and recognition of the union week By Jean Montgomery were among the gains won by 150 NEW YORK (UNS) Uniform workers employed by the Metal agreements between silk manu- Hose and Tubing Company, Brookfacturers and the Textile Workers lyn, in a contract signed between Organizing Committee, providing the Committee for Industrial Orweek for wage increases, a and the company. and union recognition, quickly fol- ganization The an end to agreemnt nation-wide lowed the Union. strike in the a strike called brought when the 29, July B. M. T. Conferences Held silk throwing and weaving induson page 4) (Continued Mr. Lewis letter was received by try, employing about 60,000 workthe company on August 10. On ers, which went into effect AuAugust 11, the B. M. T. met with gust 9. T. W. U. officials, agreed to subContracts covering more than mit its rcords of wages, hours and 18,000 workers have already been general working conditions, and reached between leading silk confinances, to the union. Another cerns and the T. W. O. C. conference is to be held with B. M. Negotiations are now under Way T. officials as soon as the union with the principle firms in the has completed its study of the com- industry for the purpose of reachpanys records. ing identical agreements, and thus The B. M. T. (Brooklyn-Manhat-ta- n establishing stabilized conditions Transit Corporation) operates in the industry. A regional office all subway, elevated, trolley and was set up in Paterson, N. J., to bus lines in Brooklyn and shares landle the applications for settlerapid transit lines with the I. R. T. ment in that area. in Manhattan and Queens counties. The strike, which completely The company has 12,000 employes. ;ied up silk mills and plants Negotiations between the T. W. hroughout Pennsylvania and New U. and the Fifth Avenue Coach Jersey, is the most effective demCompany in New York continue onstration in the history of the inwith the union hopeful for a final dustry against conditions more settlement this week. The T. W. U. chaotic and disorganized than in seek wage increases, shorter hours, any other branch of the textile invacations with pay, a sound pen- dustry. Nearly every home is sion system and the closed shop Some of the principle companies for the 1200 men employed on which signed agreements with the short on lamp bulbs. New Yorks famous double-deckT. W. O. C. include American Silk Fifth Avenue buses. Spinning Co., Cheney Brothers, C. Why not lay in a With its New York organizing K. 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