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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. SEPTEMBER 17. 1937. DECLARATION OE INDEPENDENCE (Continued from page 1) tion, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. - He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws of Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their subHe has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing stance. Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our cohstitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended For quartering large bodies of armed troops Legislation: us: For among protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits our Consent: of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried For abolishing the free System of for pretended offenses: Laws in a neighboring Province, establishing therein an English Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering For suspendfundamentally the Forms of our Governments: and themselves invested our own Legislatures, ing declaring with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves He has excited domestic insurrections by their Hands. amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, wh9se known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full power to. levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Dec laration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall Geo Walton. Wm Hooper Joseph Hewes. John Penn Edward Rutledge. Thos Heyward Junr Thomas Lynch Junr Arthur Middleton Samuel Chase Wm Paca Thos Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton George Wythe Richard Henry Lee. Th Jefferson Benja Harrison John Hancock Thos Nelson jr Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton Robt Morris Benjamin Rush Benja Franklin John Morton Geo Clymer Jas Smith. Geo. Taylor James Wilson Geo. Ross Caesar Rodney Geo Read Tho M:Kean Wm. Floyd Phil. Livingston Frans Lewis Lewis Morris Richd Stockton Jno Witherspoon Fras Hopkinson John Hart Abra Clark Josiah Bartlett Wm Whipple Sami Adams John Adams Robt Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry Step. Hopkins William Ellery Roger Sherman Sami Huntington Wm Williams Oliver Wolcott Matthew Thornton LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH (Continued from page 2) prospects for complete unionization of the industry appeared very bright to the delegates. Last year the union had 16 contracts with automobile and parts manufacturers, today it has around 400. The list of international officials elected at the convention comprise: President, Homer Martin; vice presidents, Wyndham Mortimer, Richard T. Frankensteen, R. J. Thomas, Ed Hall and Walter N. Wells; secretary-treasure- r, George Addes. GOODRICH ELECTION GOES E C. I. O. BY TEN-TO-ON- AKRON (UNS) Following up the United Rubber Workers three-to-ovictory at Goodyear, workers at the Goodrich plant turned in a sweep for the union at a National Labor Relations Board election. The total vote was 8212 for the union and 834 against. President S. II. Dalrymple of the U. R. W. hailed the result as a vindication of C. I. 0. policies. The rubber workers have supplied a fine answer to those who have claimed that the C. I. 0. is on the way out, he declared. ne facturing industries of the natioij, amounting to 95.1 cents an hour and exceeding by 50 per cent the average wage paid employes in 91 other industries included in the bureaus survey. Contracts Cover 85,000 Contracts in effect today between the members of the Oil Workers International Union and the employers affect upwards of 85,000 workers, as a result, in part, of the intensive drive which has been under way during the past year, and which has more than doubled the membership of the organization. We can see no reason why, in , an orderly society, the 500,000 workers in the various divisions of the production, refining and distribution of petroleum products, should not all be included in a structure built of just such agreements as these. We know that such a condition would contribute greatly to that social security Page toward which we all yearn. Membership of the Oil Workers Union which was approximately 45,000 at the time of affiliation with the C. I. O. has increased nearly one and a half times since then, Fremming said. In addition to contracts already in effect some important agreements with large and small units of production are now pending. 50 C. I. O. CANNERY UNION ORGANIZING CAMPBELLS CAMDEN, N. J. (UNS) Camp- bells Soup company, Camden, N. J., the largest cannery in the country and South Jerseys biggest open shop industry, is being organized, the C. I. O. United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied (Continued on page 4) OVERALLS PROSPERITY 10-to-o- ne CLIMAX RUBBER COMPANY SIGNS C. I. O. CONTRACT NEW YORK (UNS) A union contract between the Climax Rubber Co., Brooklyn, and Local 140, United Rubber Workers, C. I. 0., has been signed after lengthy negotiations. Last April the company made an agreement for its 300 employes with an A. F. of L. federal local, granting a wage increase of 99 cents a month. Sentiment for the C. I. 0. among the employes was stimulated by the meager terms of the A. F. of L. pact, and by June the C. I. 0. union mustered all but a handful of the workers behind a strike for recognition and a real pay rise. The strike lasted a month and was concluded with an arbitration the United Rubber with agreement Workers. The contract recently won by the Rubber Workers local provides for pay increases ranging as high as $5 and $6 a week for piece workers, five per cent rise for day week, time and workers, one-ha- lf overtime pay, seniority rights and preferential shop. Negotiations were supervised by Allan S. Haywood, regional C. I. 0. director. 40-ho- ur FREMMING TELLS OIL UNION SUCCESSES IN LABOR DAY SPEECH FORT WORTH, Tex. (UNS) Harvey C. Fremming, president of the Oil Workers International Union, C. I. O. affiliate, speaking Labor Day at the Fort Worth frontier fiesta, told of the advances made in his industry through union organization. Eight years ago workers in the production end of the oil industry were working, for the greater part, on a shift, for low wages and under conditions controlled entirely by the employers, he said. Today, among the more substantial companies engaged in oil does production, the work-wee- k not exceed an average of 36. hours a week. Quoting figures issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Fremming said that the average wage paid in the petroleum industry is now the highest in the manu- 12-ho- ur UTAH CONSUMERS CO OP ASSN. . The Working Mens Store, Where You Share in the Profits GROCERIES FRESH MEATS FRUITS VEGETABLES 860 So. Main Was. 4864 We Highly Recommend BLUE POINT SCOWCROFTS WHITAKERS HAND 3IADE AND CUBAN KING CIGARS The ONLY Union Made Cigars on This Market Cigar Makers Union Local 224 Never Rip SANFORIZED SHRUNK BUY CORRECT SIZE WILL NOT SHRINK United Electric Supply Co. RADIO AND REFRIGERATOR DISTRIBUTORS 117 3 Wasatch 7478 West 4th South Salt Lake City, Utah BEST WISHES TO LABOR IIUISII THEATRE ENTERPRISES Modern Theatres in Utah and Nevada Star, Eureka; Strand, Helper; Star, Payson; Lyric and Kinema, Richfield; Kanab, Kanab; Hunter and Elvada, Elko, Nev.; Star, Mt. 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