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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FEBRUARY 4, 1938 Page 5 Provo and Springville Home of Industrious Workers Read the AdsYou Are Welcome at Gunnison. The gentleman claim pioneer, born, 1735. February 12 Abraham Lincoln,) ed he represented the workers ani the employer. He said he workec born, 1809. (Continued from Page 1) in the beet fields and in the sugar rived on the anniversary of Sch- WAGGERS ARE factory during the season. He saic his average wage was $2 per day uberts birth is forgotten. DIZZY and believed it was satisfactory The 600 songs and 400 or so musical compositions are not all The Brewery Workers Journal and about as much as the sugar known but whoever has heard notes that President Roosevelt's . (Wrigleys) industry could affori Bobby Breen or any other good apt illustration at the Jackson day t0J?.aY 13 testimony was singer reproduce the feeling Schu- dinner of a amusing as dog being e was an appea It bert put into Ave Maria will be pitiful. four-increfer- ? h tail, by a wagged times many grateful that this to the utilities, can very well German Poet was true to his in- ring bo .pplM to theA.F.L. fan spirations. board trying I anized arment for a strong A executive workers' Schuberts other best known to agricultural wag a 3,000,000 member labor unjon songs are, Erl King, Serenade, movement. The sugar industry is organized. The Young Nun, and Margaret Only in this instance, the wag-ger- s The beet growers are organized. of the Spinning Wheel. became dizzy and actually Why not the workers? This son of schoolmaster had 17 to think of themselver have begun brothers and sisters, learned to Agricultural workers of Utah, . as the dog. for the and his violin from father your own good, and for the play the piano from an older brother. good of your loved ones, begin to think about organization. Write or At 11 he began composing; at 17 call at the C. I. O. regional he had produced a symphony. From Welfare of Sugar 324 Beason building, Salt childhood de he was early strongly Industry quarters, Lake City, for information regard voted to the church. His lovely song, Hark, Hark, ing agricultural workers union. (Continued from Page 1) the Lark, was written on the back of a menu while out walking one representation into the hearing here. Otherwise there wouldnt Sunday afternoon. He lived in poverty, ivas cruelly have been any spokesmen for the slighted and often disappointed. workers. Mr. Bonacci, on short noBefore his untimely death at 32 he tice, notified as many workers as. (Continued fro ni page 4) said, My music is the product he was able to locate. The wage scale that will be set JL Boyle, secretary, District No. 2, my genius and my misery. Those who care to look may read up will be in conformity to the or-- 1 International Union of Mine, Mill these lines on his tombstone: ganized sections of Colorado, Wyo- - and Smelter Workers, and F. L. Music buried here a rich posses- ming and Montana. The unorgan- - White spokesman for Park City . ized beet field workers of Utah will local No. 99. sion, and yet fairer hopes. be benefited by the militant activi- - I HOT SI OT NEXT WEEK ty of the organized agricultural AS UNION PUSHES ON states. IN HISTORY workers of the neighboring The Agricultural and Canning IN JERSEY BATTLE (Looking forward to look back) Workers International union, a C. JERSEY CITY, N. J. (UNS) February 6 Aaron Burr, states- I. O. affiliate, has more than 100,- - The battle of Jersey City moved a 000 members. It has done splenman, bom, 1756. new fields this week as the into in of the behalf agriculturFirst telephone did job February 7 C. O. pushed its campaign to few I. the al workers past during New York to Chicago, 1892. take should thousands of exploited workers Utah ganize Russia-JapaneFebruary 8 themselves to start an or- - workers and new charges of graft, it upon I war began, 1904. cen-thganization of all the workers in I corruption and es9 bureau Weather February on tered the highly exploited industry. citys tablished, 1894. Pitiful Testimony to ceded 10 Canada February Just for example we cite onei Highlights of the week in north witness at the hearing from Wng- - Jersey included the following England, 1763. Daniel Boone, chewing gum sugar dynasty veiopments. February 11 1. A mass meeting of more than .;1000 C. I. O. members in nearby ' Welcome, Labor. Prosperity in 1938 Newark, who pledged to aid the campaign to end $3 a week wages in' Hagues territory. 2. A series of C. I. O. encir-clinmeetings in other Hudson A Union Market county cities, despite Hague efforts to reach out from his Jersey I. G. A. STORE City stronghold to curb union Phone 131 80 WEST CENTER meetings in other parts of the country. 3. A "warning to President William Green of the American Feder- ation of Labor by the heads of three A. F. of L. internationals that the Federation stands on Congratulations and Best Wishes to Labor dangerous ground in allowing itMAY 1938 BE A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS YEAR FOR ALL self to be used as a Hague tool to (fight the C. I. O. Veterans Protest 4. Denial by the New Jersey Veterans of Foreign Wars that members of their organization are) And Force of Utah County participating in Hagues anti-C- . I. O. campaign with official backing of the state' body. 5. A charge by Hudson countys Republican superintendent of elections that we do not live in a democracy in Hudson county; we live in an absolute autocracy under an absolute dictator. Mayor and City Commissioners Similar statements were made at the Newark C. I. O. meeting by A FOR HAPPY, EXTEND THEIR BEST WISHES R. Longo, secretary to the John PROSPEROUS AND COOPERATIVE YEAR FOR LABOR Holy Name Society of Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Jersey City. Mark Anderson, Mayor Longo rwho said he was a Demobut not the Fascist type of John P. McGuire crat, Jesse Haws Mayor Hague declared that the City mayor is making himJersey Commissioner Commissioner self a national menace by sepa- rating Jersey City from the rest of the country. His arrogance should result in united action by Democrats and Republicans of Hudson to prevent a Hitler of Hudson. Our Sincere Best Wishes to Utah Labor William Carney, C. I. O. regional director for New Jersey, described Jersey City workers as prisoners of despair in a supposedly free America who are living in abject poverty under a reign of terror that would be hard to parallel even Ambulance in the industrial jungles of the Private and Emergency NEWS AND COMMENT 9G-in- ch Sinlg 15-m- an 1 deep South. A. F. I Heads Warn Green Objection to A. F. L. coopera Welcome, Labor PENNSYLVANIA FEDERATION SNUBS GREEN ON C. I. 0. OUSTER ' Smith Billiards and Sporting Goods HARRISBURG, Pa. (UNS) With only five dissenting votes, all PROVO, UTAH self-appoint- UTAH COUNTY MATTRESS FACTORY 661 West Second North St. D. G. HENRIOD Sheriff City E. G. Durnell Provo Claudin Funeral Homes PROVO 74 PHONE SPANISH FORK SPRINGVILLE 5 8 PAYSON 72 Here Friendship Dwells and Proves Itself FRIENDS OF LABOR WELCOME, LABOH Headquarters for Sporting Goods All Team Equipment Special Prices to Basketball Teams. OSCAR CARLSON SPORTING GOODS CO. Basket Ball 112 N. Univ. Ave. Provo -:- Provo, Utah - TOLBOE & T0LB0E GENERAL CONTRACTORS Provo, Utah ys g - Phone 345 Best Wishes to Labor ed de-le- Your Friends BEST WISHES TO OUR FRIENDS WHO LABOR Send Us Your Mattress Troubles We Enjoy Them! is ng vention called by the Pennsylvania Federation to act on A. F. L. President William Greens order to oust the C. I. 0. unions from that, body, voted to reject Mr. Greens stand and retain unity in labors ranks. The convention, attended by more than 500 delegates, approved a resolution calling upon the C. I. 0. and the A. F. L. to continue peace negotiations. John A. Phillips, Federation president, in opening the convention, stated that if President Greens order were carried out, the State Federation would be voting itself out of existence, as over 75 per cent of the membership was (Continued on page 6) tion with Hague to fight the C. I. O. came from President Jerome Davis of the American Federation of Teachers, President Isidore Lad erman of the Ladies Handbag, Pocketbook and Novelty Workers Union and President A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Urging Green to take steps to have Hagues honorary membership in the A. F. L. revoked, the three A. F. L. international leaders wrote that today Mayor Hague pays lip service to the A. F. L. but whenever it serves his political purposes and the needs of his open-sho- p backers, he will suppress the A. F. L. as ruthlessly as he is fighting the C. I. 0. se vote-steali- coming from the A, F. L. Electrical workers union, a special con- HATCH MORTUARY Funeral Service Funeral Directors Ambulance Service We Go a Long Way to Make Friends 160 N. University Avenue FRIENDS OF LABOR Drink Phone 532 PROVO, UTAH BEST WISHES TO LABOR DENNIES OWN ALKALIZE WITH Beverages ALKA-PIN- E Best Wishes to Labor O GENERAL CONTRACTORS SPRINGVILLE, UTAH PHONE 34 7 |