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Show Page 6 UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DECEMBER 17, 1937 LABOR FIGHTS LABOR By DR. CHARLES STELZLE Executive Director, Good Neighbor League Organzed labor in America is facing the most formidable oppon ent in its history Organized labor itself; as represented by the Amer-- 1 Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization. These two great labor groups are about equally divided in SEASON'S GREETINGS RAMSIIAW HATCHERIES South State Street Salt Lake City, Utah 3C87 will inevitably make each of them g The agencies. probabilities are that if this should happen, the government may be compelled to step in. At any rate, the courts will so restrict the organization of labor that labor itself will feel the effects of these! strike-breakin- Each has approxi- - limitations. Whatever else may be said about million mately three and one-ha- lf I 6 differences between the A. F. seven followers, making a total of million working men and women, I L. and the C. I. 0. there are cer-ica- n and at this stage their supreme tain fundamental facts and operaambition seems to be to extermin- tions which are common to both. ate each other. Lying ahead of them is the difficult task of organizing 30,000,-00- 0 This, in the fact of the greatest millions of whom are workers, come which has never opportunity to organized labor in this country ready for organization of some or with the possibility of hav- kind. They are both working for shorter hours and higher wages. ing it suffer the greatest defeat it Their major appeal is the right to has ever encountered. If victory is achieved, the rank and file of organize so that they may secure the workers will be its greatest better working conditions. They for collective bargainbeneficiaries; if defeat is to be its both fight are united in the battle ing. sufThey lot, they will be the greatest ferers. In this fight between labor against child labor and in the and labor both sides will win, or principle of equal pay for men and both sides will lose. There can be women for equal work. Fundano complete victory for either side, I mentally they both believe in craft This means that there must be a and industrial form of organization each in its own sphere. compromise. Labor united, will have the If complete separation between industrial and trade unions should greatest opportunity it has ever take place, employers will have to had to help shape this countrys decide whether they will employ economic and political history. Labor united, will become an im- members of the craft union or the industrial union, thus being ground portant factor in solving industrys between the "upper and nether perplexing problems, I s. Labor united, could help the gov- "barernment solve many of its prob-gaiThey will seek to obtain 1 and pit-lems in labor agreements by intelligent through among statesmanlike which leadership union against union, ting American workingmen. SEASONS GREETINGS TO LABOR ness philosophy of that day now have but an archaic interest. . . . The menace of these days is that we may go too fast and promote reaction. William Allen White in Survey Graphic. States declare war ? before the government can move against another nation, except where hostilities are clearly necessary to protect the continental United States membership. - Phones: Ily. 3038 - Mur. 474 Largest Producer of U. S. Certified Pullorum Tested White Leghorn Chicks in America. vides that a majority of citizens must vote in the affirmative on this question: "Shall the United Seasons Greetings RICH ANI) POOR ARE PROBLEM CHILDREN One & may say it was fifty years ago that Americas fight opened for a social and economic justice which culminated in the Progressive or Bull Moose party platform of 1912. Twenty years more and there is hope, more than shadowy hope, that we are gaining on the problem of control of organized capital. At least we recognize the problem; even the capitalists themselves excepting a few encrusted Cutler Fine Mens Wear 36 So. Main reactionaries realize that they are a problem. They and the poor are No politiproblem children. cians and few business men would care to go back to the days of the Coolidge bull market, the days of the "big boom. The social ethics, the political morals and the busi ... Seasons Greetings to our Labor Friends LOBBS on the JOB With the Very Best Welcome , Labor To Our New Home 375 mill-stone- COAL Blue Blaze SOUTH 2ND WEST King ns Ask for and Use White Lily Christmas Greetings to our Labor Friends Flour Walt Bloomfield MADE TO SATISFY AUTO TOPS by - GLASS UPHOLSTERY WEST JORDAN Expert Workmanship MILLING CO. Palace Continue Fight (Continued from Page 1) of norant about fundamentals matters. monetary Lauds New Deal Speaker of the State House Representatives Joseph W. Jensen lauded President Roosevelts New Deal program, and deplored the double-crossewithin the Democrat party. He said Republicans and Liberty League Democrats are blocking the progress of Democratic government. He defended the homestead tax almost exemption law pasked unanimously by the legislature but vetoed by Governor Henry H. 113 E. 1st South Was. 4519 SEASONS GREETINGS TO LABOR The EIMCO Corporation Manufacturers of MINING and MILLING MACHINERY 634 South Fourth West Street Salt Lake City, Utah GREETINGS OF THE SEASON from MULLETT-KELL- CO. Y Mens Furnishings 156 Salt Lake City South Main Extending Best Wishes to our Utah Miners and other Labor Friends for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Park City Bottling Works Bottlers of High Grade Carbonated Beverages pisehsn3s PHONE 142 and UINTA CLUB UNION MADE Been PARK CITY Utah Concrete Products Corporation MANUFACTURERS OF f High Grade Cinder and Concrete Blocks, Sewer, Culvert, Irrigation and Drain Pipe, Posts and Joists, Water System Pipe. Brigham City 925 So. 6th W., Salt Lake City Blue Blaze Coal Co. WAS. 671 (Retail) (Delivered any place in Salt Lake City) W. L. WETHERBEE CO. "Utahs Oldest Fixture House Bar, Cigar and Restaurant Fixtures Refrigerators, Show Cases, Pool Tables and Supplies 72 Post Office Place Phone Was. 1839 Salt Lake City Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Labor Salzner & Thompson GENERAL CONTRACTING Avenue 1004 Wilson, Phone Hyland 6223-- R SEASONS GREETINGS TO OUR UTAH LABOR FRIENDS W. E. FIFE' CO. MENS FURNISHINGS 170 South Main Wasatch 4099 Extending the Seasons Greetings to Utah Labor LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH (Continued from page 4) ment to obtain approval of the people in referendum before declaring war. Congressman Ludlow of Indiana, who sponsors the measure, predicts it will pass, although a ' two-thirvote is required. If both houses pass it, it must be approved of the states to by three-fourtbecome the law of the land. The proposed amendment pro- hs Seasons Greetings Main Office HY. 2520 We Wish Our Friends a Merry Christmas ' Mr. Jensen deplored the failure of state commissions to expend the monies appropriated by the legis- ds Branch Coal Co. National Shirt Shops, Inc. MENS FURNISHINGS DISTRIBUTORS BEST Sugar House 7 Blood. lature for a state tuberculosis sanitarium, and a junior college in Price. He said that it is apparent that the commissions take the stand that they are bigger than the state legislature. "Our duty is to see to it that the legislature elected by the people of this state shall be the boss the of the states hired men, speaker declared. State Representative Samuel L. Page of Marysvale made a brief talk State Senator Wendell Grover was in charge of the meeting. Brewster Elected Following the state meeting, the Salt Lake county league organization held its annual election. The following were elected: State Representative Sheldon R. Brewster, chairman; Mrs. Esther Timmons, vice chairman; A. H. Hougaard, vice chairman; J. Wajdo Justin secretary, and Parry, Hurst, treasurer. Met Phone WASATCH 4840 - 4841 rs Midvale, Utah All Union Mined Wholesale and Retail Meats Progressives To Aberdeen Castle Gate Branch Provo, Utah CIIRISTMAS South Main Street v1? rv t v v Salt Lake City v rrf "w T w T WE WISH YOU A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year GREETINGS When You NEED . . Plays - Operas - Make-U- p Carnival Goods - Costumes GIVE US A CALL The Salt Lake Costume Co., Inc. Was. 1035 Salt Lake City 246 So. Main 223 DBdDYILIES Where Your Dollars Are Big Dollars Beautiful, Useful and Lasting Gifts on Easy Terms 2329 Washington Blvd. Ogden, Utah |