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Show lIIIKAKr Review o Current Evenfrr EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JANUARY 28, VOL VIII; NO. 30 EDITORIALS Howard Warns Against Move To Let Super-Organizati- TV on CURRENT EVENTS Impose Penal Ties on I.T.U., skiing Americas most sport, notes Deck growing rapidly A man on the street asked the editor of the Utah Labor Certain Principles of Democracy Cannot Be Compromised or Morgan in Cosmopolitan, a new News what we thought about the hullabaloo in the press reform of travel has been set in moSacrificed, Says Printer's Leader in Comment on Unity-Reaffirthe vice situation in Salt Lake City and removal of Chief His Faith In the C. I. O. -- Opposes A. F. L. tion which we might call ski garding With ' I ms travel. Special War Chest Assessment. - With the part of the sport behind them, skiers want to experience new and glamorous settings. It is a changing vacation habit, long familiar to Europe, as well as to northern United States, which all tourist agencies, rail roads and airlines have recognized. I mflUV Wa born bod ebnnr how-to-do- Special to the Utah Labor News NEW YORK Reaffirming his faith in the C. I. O. of which he is secretary, President Charles P. Howard of the Inter national Typographical Union declares, in an article in the Jan issue of Printing, trade paper, that printing concerns work-- 1 uary , mg under contracts have benefitted from the wave of organiza- tion which has swept the country. The I. T. U. desires peace in the labor movement, Howard says, asserting that its members desire to retain affiliation with the A. F. L. to which the I. T. U. has contributed so much. We have endeavored to have adopted a policy which would accomplish this result. However, there are certain principles of democracy which cannot be compromised or sacrificed. To avoid the evils that have embarrassed unions and caused them to be condemned, the power to control must reside in the members. Howard assured the trade that the C. I. 0. is not attempting to industrialize it, nor is it seeking to influence printing trades unions to change their form of organization. The same is true, he adds, industries that are effectiveof all where bona fide and ly organized unions are engaging in collective bargaining. The C. I. O.will continue to organize industries where craft organization has failed to provide effective bargaining, IIow-;ar- d say. r 1 (Continued on Page 8) Labor on Its Forward March; C. I. O. Is Active If you wanted V spruce LEAGUE Political Outlook In ers at the meeting will be State Utah and U. S. Senator E. M. Royle, chairman of the League organization and conCompiled From Reports of Observers tact committee. J. Cassidy, who has been taking a lead to call a meeting in Ogden, predicts that Ogden and Weber LONG TRAIN VICTIMS county will be well organized un- PLEAD FOR PASSAGE der the banner of OF CAR LIMIT BILL The time is ripe to act League. Gentlemen of the committee, I NOW, he said. am not making this plea with the hope that it will bring any benefits to me, because my work as a railroad conductor has ended. I The secretarys office of the La-- 1 am through. I have paid the price bors League of Utah not only in human suffering, but sent air mail letters last week to also on financial loss to me and each member of the House Labor my wife. I plead with you to enact bill so that other committee urging them to report this train-lim- it Bill for the con- men will not be forced to pay the the Wages-Hour- s sideration of the House of Repre- price that I have paid. sentatives at the earliest possible After he spoke those words, (Continued on page 5) Harry H. Kelly limped from the witness chair, carrying with him the five pound steel brace without which his body cannot stand upright. He had finished telling the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, headed by Lea (Dem., Calif.), about a tragic accident which happened to him in C. & O. the caboose of a 160-care about to get their New freight train on September 9, 1935, I J Non-Partis- an League of Utah has been organized at Sego, Grand county. The unit starts with 40 charter members. The officers are: A. W. Smith, chairman, and Aaron M. Shideler, secretary. All of the charter members are members of Local No. 6577, United Mine Workers of America. Other local units will be formed throughout Grand county during the next few weeks. for Non-Partis- Non-Partis- A meeting has been called in Ogden for Sunday afternoon to form a unit of the Labors League of Utah. Among the speak an of an President Daniel J. Tobin of the Teamsters union, a member of the A. F. L. executive council and assuredly no friend of the C. I. 0., Jn a signed editorial in the January issue of his official magazine, reports as follows: No final agreement was reached because of the conflicting opinions of the parties meeting. In the first place, the committee representing the American Federation of Labor had no power to make any kind of agreement without reporting back to the executive council. The executive council of the A. F. L discussed the reof the committee at a conference held in Washington on port December 4 and 5, 1937. After going into the whole situation. President Green was instructed by the conference to state to the C. I. O. representatives that it was impossible for the council to accept the proposition of the C. I. O., and to j, internationals in their fields should be adjusted. This proposition the C. I. 0. representatives rejected as meaning not unity of labor but division of the C. I. O. and desertion of most of its member unions. The craft leaders spurned the unity proposed by the (Continued on page 2) an I OGDEN" WILL FORM A LEAGUE UNIT in the destination of their decaying atoms a real agreement, and because the executive council persisted in some hundred or so years hence refusal its to admit all the C. I. O. unions together, finds supSo for the time being, you are within the A. F. L. itself. from port (Continued on Page 7) The Political Arm of Progressives A local unit of the Labors Who are i. NON-PARTISA- N Non-Partis- twenty-fou- r ranks disunity responsible organized two by fours for a small building in labor America? you. wished tP. erect, you would not The contention of the C. .' representatives that the A. care about what hillside in what would F. L. Nor leaders caused the collapse of the recent unity negotiayou think much about the ultimate tions because their committee was without power to reach . LEAGUE ORGANIZED IN GRAND COUNTY Harry L Finch from the police department. Our answer: We have no brief for Mr. Finch, but we honestly believe that he was made the goat of scheming politicians. Yes, politicians who have tried to make things miserable for Mayor E. B. Erwin ever since he went into office. We believe the threatened investigation and cleanup of the citys underworld and gambling element will fall flat. The reason it will fall is because there was too much hullabaloo in the press about it. Had it been a quiet investigation it might amount to something. We have never known noisy investigations to get anywhere. The city attorney and his associates have started with wrong methods. Again we say that Mr. Finch was made the goat sort of victim of political circumstances. Any honest resident of this city, who has observed things in the past few years, knows that there are less payoffs now than there have been in several years. It is all chicken feed in comparison to those of 1929-193No doubt this rottenness has been going on ever since Salt Lake City was incorporated as a city and most of the time on a far larger scale than it has in the past two years. A few years ago in the prohibition days, prior to 933 3. Opposing the A.' F. L. special war chest assessment and assumption by the executive council of (Continued on Page 6) LABORS -it Minimum Wages for Sales Women Eifeclive In February ve Citizens Unite In Fight Against Infantile Paralysis ar The girls five-and-di- Deal. near Columbus, Ohio. rates for women employes of retail stores will go into effect in the District of Columbia and the state of Utah. A minimum wage of $ 7 a week for experienced women employes of retail stores has been established in the nations capital, effective February 4, and a minimum of $16 a week is prescribed in Utah, effective February 1. These In February, minimum-wag- e 1 1 minimum wage rates result from the United States supreme courts decision of last March upholding the constitutionality of the Washington minimum wage law and leading to a wave of new minimum wage legislation and the revival of old minimum wage laws. Increase in Pay According to a report just published by the Womens Bureau of the United States Department of Labor, the minimum wage should mean an increase in pay for every yoman sales clerk included in the stores in survey of limited-pric- e the city of Washington. In Utah, too, the minimum wage should mean a rather general increase in wages in this type of store. Womens Bureau studies show that regularly employed saleswomen in limited-price stores average $12.50 a (Continued on Page 3) Kelly broke down several times, the Congressmens throats tightened with the strain of sympathy, as he told how the long train broke in two, the air hose separated, brakes slammed on in emergency, thej slack ran in and the caboose was hurled to a crashing stop. Flagman J. T. Towell and I were riding in the cupola, Kelly We had no warning. The said. sudden impact threw me against the front end of the cupola, breaking the boards out and knocking me unconscious for 20 minutes. I was severely injured in my back and right ankle, and totally and permanently disabled. (Continued on page 3) and The enrollment is on. Millions of Americans are being asked to enlist in a united fight against the infantile paralmaiming death ysis. From city and town, factory and farm, citizens of every walk of life are contributing a stream of dollars to the hew national foundation for infantile paralysis. Those subscribing one dollar each between now and January 29, the date of the celebration of the Presidents birthday, are being enrolled as founders. It is expected the founders roll will exceed men and women, boys and girls, on celebration day. The campaign will reach its cli0 max on January 29 when over celebrations will be staged. All of the funds raised by these cele 12,-00- brations will be given to the new foundation. The celebrations will consist of all forms of entertainment and wholesome recreation. They will include dances, sports events, socials, parties, motion pictures, theatrical performances and various forms of outdoor activities. The fight infantile paralysis campaign this year is supported by every class. United Army Divisions of the great army which will smash at this mysterious, crippling disease on a national front include: Publishers of the nation enrolled under a publishers council. 2. Radio interests solidly in line for the fight under a radm council. 3. A sports council, consisting of (Continued on Page 7) 1. |