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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FEBRUARY 4, 1938 LABORS NON-PARTISA- LEAGUE N LABOR ON ITS bers of the Duluth-Superibranch of the National Maritime Union passed a resolution asking for an amendment to the section of the Social Security Act which exludcs American seamen from receiving benefits. The action was taken In cooperation with the Joint Maritime Legislation Committee which is conducting a campaign for changes in the Social Security Act to include maritime workers. or FORWARD MARCH ure passed during this session of congress and as a member of the (Continued from Page 2) Labor committee I can be depend ed upon to do my damndest to have through their local union of the C. I. 0. International Woodworkers, it reported from the committee. asked the state department of have According to information I have to draft a bill setting up sanlabor last received, year the government spent fifteen billions of dollars to itary provisions in lumber camps, enforce the law against criminals. in line with a general legislative The way to reduce crime is to give program proposed at a C. I. 0. conin Lansing, employment at a saving wage to ference held recently all those who are physically and Mich. mentally able to work. Every per son is entitled to a fair portion of WANT MARITIME INDUSTRY said. the goods of this world. The God PUT UNDER SECURITY ACT At the close of the meeting com- of the Universe did not create the mittees were named to organize resources DULUTH, Minn. (UNS)-Me- mfor the damn privileged Ogden by voting districts under the few. League banner. Another meeting As long as I am a member of Texas writes: will be held soon to choose perThe Labor committee, of which manent officers for the Ogden congress I am going to continue to I am a member, intends to get sponsor and support legislation unit of the League. which will promote the welfare of down to serious task of reporting out bill some time soon. I sinceremankind." CARBON COUNTY ly hope that some permanent good LEAGUERS WILL Congressman William Fitzgerald can be accomplished along that MEET SUNDAY of Connecticut, writes: line. In this connection, I wish to ad Your interest in this matter is Delegates from various labor vise that if you will check my most encouraging." unions and League record you will find that I have units will meet in Price Sunday fought for this bill consistently as afternoon to form a Carbon county member of the Committee on LaCongressman Robert Ramspeck unit of the Labors bor, and on the floor of the House. of Georgia is for the bill and League of Utah. Among the speak- You may be assured that I shall writes: ers will be State Senator Eldred continue my efforts during this I appreciate your courtesy in M. Royle of Salt Lake City, chair- session of the congress with the sending me the copy of the resoman of the Leagues organizing hope that this bill will finally be- lution recently adopted by the Lacommittee, and Frank Bonacci, come a law." bors League of of president of the state organization. Utah." Thomas Albert Congressman (Continued from page 1) ture there must be a radical revi sion of the present set-uMr. Scott inferred that it will take a Philadelphia lawyer to entangle some of the evasive decisions that are made on labor matters on Capitol Hill in Salt Lake He suggested that there City. should be an exclusive state department of labor headed by a labor commissioner to administer affairs otthe workers. The workers are entitled to this recognition," he p. Non-Partis- SEAMEN A DOIT UNITY PROGRAM SAN FRANCISCO (UNS) Unity of organization among American, seamen and marine workers came to realization when 350 delegates, representing more than 100,000 unlicensed seamen, Page met for the maritime unity conference here called by C. I. 0. Greeted with congratulations from John L. Lewis and John Brophy, chairman and director of the C. I. 0., the delegates who came from all parts of the nation, went to work and adopted plans for a national council as first step toward eventual unity in a single national industrial union. Union groups represented at the meeting included the Atlantic, Gulf and Great Lakes divisions of the Maritime Union, Inland Boatmens Union from both the Atlantic and the Pacific, the Marine Cooks and Stewards and the Pacific Coast Marine Firemen, Oilers, Wipers and Watertenders. (Continued on Tage 4) 1 BEST WISHES TO LABOR MOUNTAIN STATES CREAMERY CO. Manufacturers and Wholesalers BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE 226 West South Temple Wasatch 882 an Non-Partis- an Non-Partis- an Best Wishes to Labor WESTERN IRON . BRONZE WORKS W. H. Klenitz, Manager. Friend of Labor Res. Phone Was. 7388-Shop Phone Was. 4013 Construction and Repairing of Machinery for Ail Purposes. ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKS Manufacturers of Bronze Work of All Kinds Elevator Cages Enclosures Metal Stairways Railings Fire Escapes Grill Work. 344 West 5th South, Salt Lake City, Utah Edward Scherer, executive board member of the state league, has charge of the arrangements. Carbon county labor leaders are CONGRESSMEN WAGES-IIOUR- FAVOR BILL S A number of congressmen have written to the secretarys office of the Labors League of Utah, saying they are strong for the Wages-Hour- s Bill. Among the most informative letters came from Congressman Matthew A. Dunn of Pennsylvania. He says: It is unfortunate that we were not successful in enacting into law at the special session of congress a Wage and Hour Bill which would abolish sweat shops, child labor and other social evils. I am very much in favor of having this meas Non-Partis- Funeral Mrs. Henrietta P. Bott Johnson, age 42, wrho died January 28 in a local hospital after a four-da- y illness, was conducted 2 at p. m. in the Fourth Monday L. D. S. ward chapel by Bishop A. M. .Hansen. Burial was made in Brigham City cemetery. Mrs. Johnson was Box Elder county representative in the state legislature, and an active member of the Labors League of Utah. She was a director of the Womens section of the League. She was born December 22, 1895, in Paris, Idaho, a daughter of John H. and Cecelia R. Petersen Bott. She was a graduate of University of Utah and filled a mission for the L. D. S. church to the eastern states in 1919. As librarian for the Brigham City library, she aided in its develCITY Non-Partis- Non-Partis- an Surviving are her husband, John J. Johnson, First Congressional District chairman of the Labors League; her mother and four sisters, all of Brigham Non-Partis- an City. A THE UTAH LABOR NEWS for one year and ANY 3 MAGAZINES below only (or any 4 magazines for $3.00 5 magazines for $3.50) S ig50 To Club members and friends. Meeting halls, desk space, and banquet rooms to labor organizations at Trade Union halls, 68 South West Temple St. Telephone Wasatch 9988. 1 J. J. Richards, Manager. 7 Mg l?imM8attSUD c You Want) (A TOTAL OF Woman's Home Companion Me CALL'S few Pathfinder (Weekly) . . American Boy McCall's Magazine . . Silver Screen Pictorial Review . . . Modem Romances True Confessions . . . Romantic Magazine . . Christian Herald Parents' Magazine Good Stories . . . Woman's World Household Magazine . . Home Arts Needlecraft . Open Road for Boys . . . . 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