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Show f 1937, UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. NOVEMBER 5, Page 4 C. I. 0. tegrity and responsibility are CLAIMS SUPREMACY IN UNITED STATES LABOR FIELD (Continued from page 1) tered local industrial unions withzation is not irresponsible" as a membership of more than 200,- - charged by labor haters. Its unions 000 in industries where no C. I. 0. have contracts covering hundreds international exists. In addition, I of thousands of workers with there are nearly 100 industrial I thousands of employers, big and union councils set up in States, I little. They observe their or cities- - where the A. tracts. F. of L. had expelled local unions) Steel; Four hundred and ninety from its state or city bodies. thousand workers are under con The record now stands, accord tract. Only those steel mills that ing to the C. I. 0., at this, refuse to deal with their workers Before the C. I. 0., Ies3 than were struck. United States Steel 10,000 steel workers were organ others under contract suffered ized in the Amalgamated Associa and no interruption in production. tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Work Coal: Six hundred thousand , con-counti- .... r. es are covered by contract. iziiiff CommittL now has union!I workers ... , I AY01"8 U?ltCTT agreements with 431 companies Mine Work America. more than steel 600,000 employing ers record, like that of the Interworkers. national Ladies Garment Workers Textile Gains Textiles: The drive of the Tex Union, the Amalgamated Clothing tile Workers Organizing Commit-- . Workers of America and other tee has already secured contracts Comittc.e for. Industrial Organi unions is one of responsible covering more than 210,000 work-zao- n observance over a long contract ers employed by more than 400 years. The Clothing firms. The committee has enrolled Per0(l and Workers Hart, Schaffner and 400,000 members and wage levels in the industry, long notoriously Marx, big clothing makers, recent-loyears of are being rapidly raised to !' celebrated twenty-fiv- e decent levels under the impetus of I industrial peace, based on con- the Committee for Industrial Autos: The United Automobile ganization. Oil: The Oil Workers Interna- - Workers have contracts with Union, one of the original eral Motors, covering 120,000, with member unions of the Committee Cosier, covering 60,000 and with for Industrial Organization, has scores of smaller plants. The auto since doubled its membership in the past industry has been open-sho- p founded, was it year and a half. More than 50,000 workers are under contract with) Ju all these contracts, the Com mittee for Industrial Organization the chief oil companies. These are four examples in the unions are the responsible parties, mass production industries. Others I faithfully carrying out their include rubber, glass, radio and pledges. In the few instances where electrical manufacturing, communi-- 1 unauthorized strikes have occuired, they have been the result of fail- cations, marine. White collar and professional ure to observe the terms of the work: Before the Committee for contract on the part of he employ-industri- al or 'I13 inability to adjust to a Organization, few at-e- r I new an(! unfamiliar relationship, tempts had been made to organize I Observe Contracts workers in these occupations, record constitute j a of the Committee for The though they large perj all of Industrial Organization unions in centage gainfully employed, Pro-of contracts is much the observance Office 1 and United Today fessional Workers, the United Re- - better than that of the employers, tail Employes, the American News- - In repeated instances it is thes, paper Guild, the Federation of)I Committee for Industrial Engineers, Chemists zation that forces the employer to and Technicians, the United Fed- - keep his part of the legal bargain, In many industries, the union has eral Workers, are organizing more than 7,000,000 employes in every I brought stability to a ruinous, stiuation that was damaging where white-collaThis I worker and employer. workers are employed. clothof true coal, is particularly Farm Workers tile3 arV Farm wotkers: Under the Com- leadership of Leadership mittee for Industrial Organization the Committee The OrIndustrial for the first serious attempt is being of is another guarantee made to organize the nations ganization' John L. Lewis, its responsibility. 6,000,000 rural workers, who are chairman of the Committee for Inamong he most exploited workers dustrial Organization, is known to in the country. These include all every worker in the United States varieties of rural wage earners for his leadership in the trade canners, day laborers on farms, union movement. Men like Sidney harvesters, fruit pickers, etc. This Hillman of .the Amalgamated union, the United Cannery, Agri- Clothing Workers, Charles P. Howcultural, Packing and Allied Work- ard of the International Typoers of America, i3 being built with graphical Union, David Dubinsky support from the Committee for of the International Ladies Gar- Industrial Organization. ment Workers, and many others Committee fop Industrial Or- have a background of many years The of devoted effort in the trade ganization Responsibility Committee for Industrial Organi- - unions of this country. Their in- w, Or-trac- 3, Gen-tion- al un- questioned. Committee for Industrial OrganThe ization in the Community from benefits whole community successful organization: Wages are increased, lifting purchasing power. More money is spent in the community. Workers spend their money at home, for necessities sold by local merchants and services provided in their own towns. Industrial Peace Industrial peace, based on a solid contractual relationship, benefits everyone in the community. More leisure and more opporrectunity to carry on cultural and level reational activities raises the of community life. More time for education, church, sports, and other free time occupations results from strong trade union organizations. Finally, in a towm, relations between worker and employer are more stabilized, permitting both sides to live peacefully in the community. This peaceful atmosphere, however, is impossible if the workers are unorganized, underpaid and exploited. The Committee for Industrial This Organization and Violence accusation is frequently thrown at the Committee for Industrial Organization, and is invariably untrue. The Committee for Industrial Organization does not provoke The violence, but opposes it. Committee for Industrial Organization members in fact have been the worst sufferers from violence. Every one of the eighteen persons killed in the strike against the in well-organiz- ed the killed and wounded have been ordinary honest American citizens who simply trying to get what they knew was their right. C. I. O. Hates Violence The Committee for Industrial Organization hates violence because its members are the ones who suffer from it. There will be no violence when employers deal with their workers on the square. As the Committee Education for Industrial Organization unions grow and establish themselves, they become the center of social and cultural activity in their communities, as well as of economic attack the pickets. The La Follette Committee has improvement. They provide social unearthed volumes of evidence (Continued on page 7) showing companies buying and equipping arsenals of machine AMERICAN LINEN guns, poison gas, and ammunition to use against their workers. No SUPPLY COMPANY single instance of similar arming alby trade unions has ever been Cleanliness Krst! Cleanliness leged. Last! Boost, Build and SupThe. bitter sufferers from violyour State. Use Amerport ence, throughout all American ican continuous towels and labor history, have been strikers. all kinds of linens they furThe men killed are invariably men nish. Support industries that on the picket line, never the thugs support you. Violence and company deputies. 33 East 6th South would not occur if employers comWas. 2484-8- S plied with the law in dealing in IT PAYS TO KEEP good faith with the proper repreCLEAN" sentatives of their employes. When employers have failed to do this, and dependent steel companies were nearly all of' the injured striker sympathizers whose only crime was exercise of their legal right to picket. Vigilante Mobs Vigilante mobs are formed by union-hatin- g employers to destroy strikes for higher break unions, decent and working condiwages do not form workers tions. Union order law and leagues," citizens and the like. committees" defense is the right of legal Picketing every worker, and is invariably peaceful until scabs and gunmen w-er-e 7 BEST WISHES TO OUR LABOR FRIENDS Del Roy Grocery and Staple Groceries Fancy 567 East 6th South Hyland 8403 7 1 IB PUBUCMTOW Each for One Year.. .a Total of 124 Issues Orgam-Architect- r" Here's What You Get! McCALLS MAGAZINE . 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