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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT Page 4 Cutting Labors Nose To Spite Its Face POLITICAL OUTLOOK (Continued from Page 1) same time the average wage in- crease in the metal mining and smelting industry was only 7 per By LEN DE CAUX The little girl in Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," who was always threatening to hold her breath until she was blue in the face, in onJcr to get her way must Bilvpr riave suggested some of the tactics cent. LAKE CITY, UTAH. OCTOBER I. 1937. The mining operators should keep in mind the fact that the New Deal Administration (Senator Thomas is its staunchest support- -' er) has Pfsed direct Jwsl IF THE HEART KEEPS SINGING Beck & Co. to hurt the longshore men and the public! Who Profit From Division? By JOHN EDWIN PRICE According to all reports, the employers' associations have been with viewing the present tie-u- p some complacency, and even egg- ing Beck on. Many of them are apparently willing to forego quite a bit of their profits for the pleasure of the teamsters wearing seeing themselves out because Beck wants to hurt the longshoremen. Divide and conquer, is their motto, and they dont mind seeing others do- ing the dividing for them. Public officials too have in many cases participated in this set-u- p against labor and against the pub- lie they are supposed to represent, And publishers have been dictat- ing editorials about this being a I. O.-F. of L. fight in which both sides are to blame, regardless of the fact that the C. I. 0. union- ists have been simply minding their own business, continuing to work and offering repeatedly to let the warehousemen express their own choice through a labor board What if the storm clouds lower? Grey skies, chill winds, loneli What if a haze darkens our nessj rirnf $20 us man in How the primitive days? from 23 cents to 77 cents and plac-- 1 union need our souls turn sour? back there the sun! 1. C. misses or to O. Why Away officials fight per pound excise on ing a dawn-day- s, the has its rewards, Autumn civilizations we, jn 'copper for the protection Qf ganization. much will turn to spring. winter And so human up race, depended American copper producers. Only these officials dont hold out So rout sun. the 0n your doubts, their own breath (no such luck!); Keep these facts in mind: sole our Curl almost was sun The pouts, up your Senator King has been a slacker they simply order their members sunk Tune When heart and sing! it warmth. of source up your He Deal. to in support of the New suffer in order that they may the to ran we at shivering knifed night Presidents the icgisla- thus indirectly make the C. I. 0. has darkness of our caves where we SENTENCE tive program constantly. In 1931 workers suffer also. knew our way about, STIMULANTS King made solemn promises to Dave Dedc aml other offlciai3 of The sun gave us earth-grow- n the Teamsters union on the West Jp support the President. He When winter came we food. in his promises. He betrayed the Goast recently took it into their What if no one finds out. You and the Utah of people caught up with our dinner on the know. And you have to live with heads that the warehousemen t,e. naj;orV, h run and snatched it through a hole yourself. to them. .0r The warehouse " ?.T,. the ice. in ePresillent. The Sll wevw. are atroagly organ- the way with the Today, we can be' warm without Interest in others expressed inre WUh SCnalr Utah but-of a touch the With sun. the Thomas?' ahoremena and dividually and through combining ton we push back the dark. If we our mite with others might helps union &nd C. of the have Robinson W. Representatives J. miss the crickets music and the the needy and strengthens us. and Abe Murdock have supported shown no disopsition whatever to hum of bees, we turn a dial and the Presidents program. They shift their allegiance, myriads of sounds not unlike the The Knowing that he could never win have kept their campaign pledges, perfectly smooth going mellifluous noises of nature greet life or only business I ever knew of was and the people of Utah will stand the warehousemen by argument, our ears, and knowing that they would vote for them. slipping down hill and hadnt yet And yet the grey skies and chill hit When it comes to the question in any election to stay with the the bumps. winds bring the old haunting sense between the people and special in- - union which has won them so election. of True, the birds terests the people will stand loyally many better conditions, Beck y There arent many geniuses in are leaving and the gardens have those senators and congress- - dered his teamsters to strike Beck-Dor- e America but there are over 7000 men who have supported legisla-- l against the longshoremens union! Politics given up, women who were just a men and have It seems that when labor unions But what of it? The birds tion that benefited the people. y0 the etamsters have been ab who are drawing ankeener little modem from work and wages, attend strictly to the business of always come back and .staining AHINST inter- - canning, home and factory, will nual salaries of $6500 or more. not; to win any better conditions promoting their members MK. JUSTICE BLACK. for themselves, but on the con- - ests, and strike only in defense of supplement greenhouse vegetables these interests when employers and those from sunnier climes, When extra initiative, superior will not sit down to make a rea- If summer colors have gone, so intelligence and unusual faithfulsonable collective bargain, that I have the golden rod and ragweed ness to duty no longer receive exI suHer too, when up cargo piles amassed who had man a attorney, then their leaders are dangerous and the incurable sneeze, I tra reward, then America has a fortune and achieved political I faough at the docks, which blue mood wretched This defiers ceased to be America as the agitators," communists, prominence as a result of helping What About the autumn of souls in our into crawls etc. public opinion, etc., Fathers founded it and the rest of the banks, utilities and corpora-- 1 I Public Now? no has But when It labor is a officials like hangover. primeval us enjoy it. tions to loot the State of Alabama Such action is not only an injury Beck order spite-strikof a the in makeup place 0 rightful against and stifle competition by strong-ujjje teamsters, who suffer first arm monopolies, he could have on- - and most and have nothing to abor and against the public, when modern. POCKETBOOK UNION The same is true of most of our SIGNS CONTRACT Key devote their efforts to divid- he cou 1. m not a on it js gain onIy pged ing labor and turning brother fears and worries. They are hang-again- st do5S renSway share- als attact iS brother, then they become overs from the pioneer days when nitD.u about which we BOSTON (UNS) The Corliss d ;he ,a bloodhounds andn boys of the cham- - stolid suffering was the only way Manufacturing company of Boscroppers with much so of late, bers of commerce and of a certain through the long winter, hearing eaten babies for breakfast for aIllaZ ton, Mass., has signed an agreeThe theory apparently w that of politician. that his conservative Northern II waen type as different as are Times today ment with the International the public has been incon- critics would care. Consider the actions and utter- - the pension check at home differs Ladies Handbag, Pocketbook and The charge against Mr. Justice venienced enough, and when ances of one Mayor Dore of from the humiliation of the e, Workers, C. I. O. union, Novelty Black is that he belonged to the enough longshoremen have been for example. He has been house. Isidor Laderman has anPresident made involuntarily idle by the denying workers their legal right dead, departed Klan of the early cheer to the is The agreement provides nounced. a There way 1920s. Ilis crime is that he is a voluntary idleness of the team-frien- d to picket unless they have the con- the drive can we and of a closed the maintenance darkest for I day of American labor and a foe sters, Beck and his officials, who sent of a labor 10 per cent wage inthe union heart blues if I shop, keeps away of Wall Street plutocracy. Let have thus held other peoples council and has declared week. that singing and if we hold ourselves creases and the American labor and American lib- - breath for them until they are blue who much too leather 200 on will resist workers hn More than readiness to do our part, erals remember that fact before in the face, will eventually get pickets to the hospital or the morgue are affected. novelties go south? I the if vhat go geese allow to turn enemies their their way. they C. O. I. unionists not bluffed are them against the man who, almost! "Mal public Is by such incitements to violence, single-handelifted Southern poll- of strikes but they are giving fair warning by tics to the level of liberal national lnconve.menced wbose have left that the Dores and Daveys of the employers inlf3 Franklin Jay I them no other resort than to walk country will find themselves in the New York Post. out. Then what a holler is raised the political morgue after next ji by chambers of commerce, employ- elections. LIKE ROOSEVELT'S ers associations and reactionary NEW DEAL papers about a strike against the Correction The Utah Labor News invites all friends of Democracy to The percentage of payroll in- ! Biggest political job in the Unit- - puhlicl unite in support of President Roogevelt and Democracy.' This is . , But what a strange silence now come increase last year mentioned ed States is the presidency. Second biggest, is mayor of New pervades these quarters in regard in this column last week, due to a ) absolutely necessary in order to win the battle of the ages for the ) ordi-Yor- k York City. That is why a New to the present typing error, was given as 3.17 If people. This paper will do its part. Will you do yours? I nance on teamsters the contest by per cent instead of 13.17 per cent. imposed is an event mayoralty of national significance and interest. week by a score of organizations congress in Massachusetts this The recent primary election and mass meetings. week by an overwhelming ma- - ! ! proved two things one, New York The League candidates for city voters still like President Roos- commissioners are Lawrence A. jority. evelts New Deal program , both ..Johnson and S. D. Huffaker, and Voters of New York have enDemocratic candidate Mahoney and for city auditor, J. Waldo Parry. dorsed the New Deal. Republican candidate LaGuardia And so on down the line every) rri,. ninffnim. I rncies shows that the people of the) test candidates declare for debt ITeroerlm "seenm?' I improvement United 1Tamman.y street States are for the Presia reduction, is very much on STd it program, smoke elimination, erec-thre- dent and his program. its whole weight, including I tion of a civic auditorium, recrea-A- 1 Labor The Of course you want the facts Smith, behind Senator Cope- - tional improvements, beautifica-lana- , LABOR LEADER who ran in both primaries, J tion of Jordan river, a a all j j and News will po-the issue in truth next weeks larger give you "e was badjy beaten. i;ce force, airport development, de- the issues following will contain editorials, special articles . , Mayor LaGuardia is an avowed velopment of sewage disposal, and " and features specially written by writers who know their jj supporter of President Roosevelt the promotion of a worlds fair in and the New Deal. He is the nom- - Salt Lake City in 1947. economics, politics and the needs of thepeople. inee of. the American Labor party, of the score of candidates in gig which is the official Labors Non- - j the field the consensus of opinion If you are not already a subscriber become one NOW. J of Partisan League New York. prevalent at this date is that the Only $1.50 per year 52 interesting and instructive issues. LaGuardia is a colorful, vote- - Citizens candidates will qualify He has made with a large vote at the city pri getting personality. SAVE a remarkable record for efficiency mary election on Tuesday, Octo and honesty as mayor, and is ex-- 1 ber 19. If you want to save $2.25 on your years leading pected to be reelected. The registration days are Octomatter send $2.50 and receive for one year the following LaGuardias reelection will not ber 5 and 12 for tlje primary elecseven McCalls Magazine, Pictorial Review " make President Roosevelt sore. publications: tion. There is a movement, started by The Utah Labor News political Womans World, Good Stories, Country Home, Farm William Allen White of Kansas, to observers are interviewing voters and the UTAH LABOR NEWS. Regular value Journal, boom LaGuardia for the Republiand in next weeks issue we expect You $4.75 get them all for $2.50 You save $2.25. can presidential nomination in to give a complete review of their White called him another findings for the readers of thia 1940. Lincoln. paper. Send your subscription today in cash, money order, Our guess is that the Republicheck or approved prosperity bonds. Address your letters can party will not be progressive PRESIDENTS POPULARITY and remittances to the enough lo nominate a New Dealer CANNOT BE and a Rooseveltian like LaGuardia. QUESTIONED Regardless of the muckraking CITIZENS LEAGUE press and subversive propaganda CANDIDATES ARE President Roosevelt is first in the ENDORSED hearts of his countrymen. JOHN L. LEWIS The President is receiving a 24 South Fourth East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah The platform and candidates of royal welcome at every stop on his Chairman C. I. O. and president of Mine of The Workers United the Citizens Voters League have western tour. America been endorsed during the past A New Dealer was elected to raising I nt I Sn JilS I--- fillS 0. C. A. left-alonene- ss. or-b- tiippiqp IS, es .'icvj-worshi- p. Kef fair-haire- I poor-Seattl- Beck-dominat- ed 40-ho- d, .l"' work-statesmansh- ur ip. I The Utah Labor Neivs Is Dedicated to Democracy self-denyi- ng 1 Next Week w f UTAH LABOR NEWS |