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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DECEMBER Page 6 LABOR LEADERS TALK PEACE Sait Lake c. Preparing 3, 1937 lo Fight Snows ,y Three tractors are being added to the present fleet of 18 tractors V'4t, used to clear Salt Lake county roads of snow, according to George Catmull, county departments of roads and bridges superintendent. One of the new tractors is equip' ' , ' V plow and cost ped with a $10,578. Mr. Catmull said that with the addition of the new machinery Salt Lake county will be equipped with ample plows to keep the roads open during severe winters. Every effort will be made to keep canyon roads open to traffic during the entire winter season. , Our present equipment will be used as long as possible in keep-thcanyon roads open to allow winter sports enthusiasts opportunities nature offers them in iUtah, Catmull said. The decision of the Salt Lake I. Presi and C. L. the O., Lewis, left, Chairman of county commission, and Mr. CatJohn the canyon roads mull dent William Green of the A. F. L, meet to dfscuss peace terms clear isto keepnews to the hundreds good to bring under one banner almost eight million organized work of winter sports enthusiasts who ers. frequent the ski slides and other sports spots. The vicinity of Salt Lake City is becoming quite a mecca for winter sports and every effort should be made to encourage this healthy recreation. xtf'lf ed e - Wyoming Industrial Union Council to be Organized Special to the Utah Labor News CIIEYENinE, Wyoming James Morgan, C. I. 0. regional director for Wyoming and Utah, has issued a call for all C. I. 0. unions in Wyoming to send delegates to a convention in Cheyenne, to organize a State Industrial Council of The convention will Wyoming. meet at 10 a. m.. Wednesday, December 15, at the Mine Workers hall. The call said that "it has become increasingly evident that a state organization of the Committee for Industrial Organization was necessary in Wyoming to bring into closer affiliation the unions affiliated with and in sympathy with the C. LOOKING AHEAD (Continued from Page 1) time when a business recession is under way painfully reminiscent, and for the same reasons, of that of eight years ago. Yet a selfish minority who see only immediate profits from low-pai- d and overworked labor, are again opposing all measures designed to give some degree of security to the working population, and thus to buttress the foundation of mass purchasing power on which the whole countrys welfare depends. Labors Voice Becoming Heard But if Americas industrial and financial Bourbons never learn and are quick to forget, the same fortunately is not true of American working people. That they have tired of being blind followers, and victims of a blind leadership is shown by the growth of union organization in the past few years. From the ranks of this enlarged labor movement a new political leadership is emerging. Organized labor now has its feet solidly planted in our great industries and is finding its voice politically. This voice of labor is coming d to express itself in every election and on every national issue. Accustomed to the blindly selfish demands of the class interests which have dominated American politics in the past, mapy have the emergence professed to fear of labor as an organized political not realized force. They have that labors demands cannot be those of a selfish minority, since labor represents a majority element of the population, an element on which the general welfare most depends and which is most directly concerned with the preservation of the general welfare. The League Takes Its Stand When Chairman John L. Lewis expresses the stand of Labors League on federal wage and hour legislation, he speaks for millions of organized workers in both the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L. And because the League speaks for the millions who suffer first and most from a depression, it must propose and support measures designed to prevent depression or at least, to soften its impact. In its case there is no conflict between the immediate interests of those it represents and new-foun- Non-Partis- an I. 0., and its policy of industria organization. Each local union will be entitlec to one vote for the charter and an additional vote for each 50 mem bers or major fraction thereof, bu no 'delegate will be entitled to represent or vote more than five votes Several prominent C. I. O. leaders are expected to address the convention during its two or three days of deliberation. Mr. Morgan expects about hundred delegates representing more than 10,000 members in Wyo ming. Jhe largest C. I. 0. organ izations in this state are the United Mine Workers, and the Oil the longer-rang- e considerations of the general welfare. Governmental establishment of adequate standards of minimum hours, wages and maximum Lewis points out in his statement on the Black-Conner- y fair labor standards bill, is of the utmost importance, not only to the workers directly and indirectly affected, but also as a principal means to bring about that stabilization of industry which should be a prime objective of government. Had such legislation been upon our statute books during the past four years, and had it been so administered as to fix reasonable minimum wages and to shorten hours in step with increased labor productivity, we should have made much greater progress toward complete recovery from the depression than we have. Certainly the recession now spreading in industry is largely due to the failure of industry and government to increase employment and raise wages during the last expansion in business activ- LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH PHILADELPHIA, PA. More than 1,000,000 square feet of warehouse space Is used by the ten member companies of the American Fruit and Produce Auction Association In handling the 100,000 carloads of citrus and deciduous fruits sold through those auctions annually. The largest of these warehouses is that of the New York Fruit Auction in New York City, a partial interior view of which is shown at top. These vast display facilities, togeth- er with the highly efficient system of sales and handling employed, make possible the rapid delivery of the tremendous volume of perishable fruits (Continued from page 5) Using a mixture of straight facts and fiction, with a liberal sprinkling of his own ideas and sold daily through auction in Boston, comments, Sinclair tells the life Chicago, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Balstory of Henry Ford beginning timore, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsback in the days in '92 wnen he burgh, Cincinnati and New York City. used to tinker all day and some- Norman C. Ives (inset, top photo), times all night, in a shed on Bag-le- y is president of the AssoPhiladelphia, street, Detroit, trying to make ciation. his little horseless carriage run. Picture No. 2 shows buyers picking Running parallel to the story ot the economic rise and moral fall up catalogues of the days offerings, of Ford, is that of Abner Shutt, preparatory to their inspection of the who appears first as a small boy fruit to be sold through auction. After watching Fords experiments in this inspection, (No. 3) they attend the Bagley street shed in fascinathe auction sale, a typical scene of he all reveres an that which is shown in photo No. 4. Imtion, episode his life and uses to good purpose mediately after the fruit is sold, it is in time of trouble. loaded in wagons and motor trucks The interest of Sinclairs Fliv- - for delivery (5 and 6). ver King lies mostly in its review and interpretation of the long and amazing career of this supermechanic with the mind of a stub- - Workers, Shingleweavers and A. And this progress is only a be)om peasant, as Sinclair calls I p 0f union members of the ginning. I him, who became a king m Everywhere throughout this area various unit y councils are 'standing automobile industry with the lives (Continued on page 7) o( the Brewery Workers 100 of many thousands of workers at cent. Eight new accounts for his mercy. Old Empire beer, the only union Many people who cant properly I adjust their own affairs can solve The Flivver Kin,. A Story of J" to the problem while of Local you snap your fingers once, posH?y No. 228,secretary pamphlet published by Union advises. Seattle, sibly twice. he United Automobile Workers, Griswold Bldg., Detroit, Mich, rice, 25c postpaid. I .e Sino-Japane- O-ain- se e 19-pa- ge OFFICERS OF CHRYSLER INDEPENDENT RESIGN DETROIT (UNS) Three of the eading officers have resigned from ;he Independent Association of Chrysler Employes, Jong opposed United Automobile Workri the O. union, as a thinly disC. I. ers, guised company union sponsored ity. The moderate and constructive y the corporation to circumvent Relations character of labors political de- the National Labor mands is shown by the Leagues 3oard. In a letter of resignation signed support of this bill, despite its resentment at the way the bill has )y the vice president, financial secbeen whittled down. At least the retary and national organizer of bill recognizes the principle of the independent union, the three federal prohibition of starvation officers repudiated the association wages and oppressive hours, and as seeking to divide labor. It canlabor is willing to join with all not and never will fully protect progressive forces in securing its and properly safeguard the interests of the working men and enactment. women, they wrote. Declaring that, the association Him Sizing Up Said the bumptious young man: was formed and still is supported the Chrysler Corporation, and by Im a very good thought-reade- r; A1 &t efforts are under way to de I can tell exactly what any one is crease wages, increase hours and thinking. the production line, the up speed I In that case, Said the other: said that the only effecofficers beg your pardon. tive method by which such efforts may be successfully resisted is to Where Were Her Manners? be found in a legitimate labor There was a grave lass of Connec- union. ticut Who signalled the train with her NO BECK SCAB petticoat, BEER HAS CHANCE Which the papers defined IN NORTHWEST As presence of mind But deplorable absence of ecticut! 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