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Show znt&inr ".fTvrrsirr or vt.-ufeb 15 1938 Review EDUCATE ORGANIZE -COOPERATE y Current Events WU SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, FEBRU VOL VIII NO. 32 s Labors ofi Non-Partis- an League Is Growing 1938 Price: 5 Cents Per Copy BDTfMDAL: News and Comment By M. I. T. THE HAIL SPLITTING, Utah County Leaguers SIDESPLITTING UNIFIES Carbon County Unit Formed Sunday Office Daily ThouState Meet Calls Are Coming In to Anyone with any sense of responsibility looks with anxious sands Are Joining Forces In Utah Millions Have Joined Tomorrow, February 12, is the He of Abraham Lincoln. birthday eye to the five sections of the globe where war is actually a realIn Nation. was born in 1809. ity and to the many other sectors where it is daily imminent. When the word railsplitter is One wonders what is to be the outcome of efforts to relieve The Labors League of Utah is "going mentioned, of whom do you think? Thousands of Utah workers and independently think You think of Abraham Lincoln who the farmer, to stabilize labor conditions, to overcome the relapse places. as a jopng man earned his living of business recovery, to wipe out the uncertainty that prevails ing citizens have joined the League, and units of the fastest in the business and commercial world and to adjust differences splitting rails for farm fences. growing political organization in' association. his first election cam- between this inDuring all in set are state the up being' group and that group, this faction and that facSenator Hoyle explained the paign for the presidency people redustrial centers. tion. Differences which are a serious handicap to many activiof the League organiza- ferred to him as the A Carbon county unit was form- purposes and its need in the political and the nickname stuck.railsplitter tion Lincoln ties not directly involved. ed Sunday afternoon at Price. Utah field. Senator Lindstrom talked because did not object to the name Just what is labor doing that is contributing to this state county Leaguers held a meeting on state issues and predicted that it linked common people of him to the More than Provo. in last night uncertainty? the League would be of whom he said, God must like a dozen organization meetings thq real political factor in future common He is divided m his own ranks, is ranged in opposing, armpeople, or He would not have been scheduled during the elections. Mr. Cowles talked on ed have made so many of them. And camps and gives evidences of determined and open conmonth. the state direct primary law. Non-Partisa- n Non-Partis- an The League is now organized m every state of the union and has Joe Dowd of Latuda was elected of the Carbon county president several million members. League unit. Carbon Organizes The other officers are: J. W. The meeting at Price Labor hall Bench of Rolapp, vice president, Sunday afternoon was attended by and Claude Adams of Columbia, more than 40 delegates represent- secretary-treasure- r. The members of the organizing ing practically all the labor unions in Carbon county, Frank Bonacci, and contact committee are: Mr. state chairman, was in charge of Cowles, chairman; C. N. Chadwick and Byron Olson, Price; Adam the meeting. M. E. were The speakers Hoyle, Ostovich, Jesse Cox and J. Jackob chairman of the organizing com- hagen, Jlelper; A. M. Peterson, mittee; G. G. Lindstrom, state Castlegtte; W. H. Williams and W. Theodore Standardville ; committeeman, and Val H. Cowles, Luat, Louis and Bezeak, editor Price Gentry, Sweet; of the Utah State Press (Continued on Page 2) Sun-Advoc- Con-preside- ate nt E. B. Erwin Resigns As Mayor of Salt Lake City again, No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty. Although he himself toiled from poverty he knew that others helped to make him. Of the one nearest to him he said, All I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. I remember her prayers, and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. Moreover in his toil upward from poverty he practiced the honesty he preached. After he waited on a customer in a store in Salem, 111., he realized that he had taken too much. That evening he walked three miles to return the money. He later ran a store in partnership. When the business failed he worked and paid all debts against him and his partner. No wonder he was also called Honest Abe. His integrity could not be six-pen- ce Mayor E. B. Erwin tendered his resignation as head of Salt Lake'City" government this week after serving for two years as a target of all reactionary politicians and schemers in the city The situation in the ranks of organized labor is doing harm in several ways. It is not alone hurting labor itself, but it hurts business, industry, and society in general. What shall we do then? Surrender? No! Unite! Close ranks! 9t'. Let the rank and file of union men and women realize that the issues that now divide us are not primarily economic, that they do not involve essential differences in trade unionism but have their roots in forces, ambitions find influences beyond the bounds of the trade union movement. Let us realize that in order to settle these disputes neither side must give up anything that is dear to the union cause. But let us know that above all differences and with all our issues ' (Continued on page 8) Labor on Its. Forward March; C. I. O. Is Active The C. I. O. and U. S. Steel ' signed up a collective bargaining agreement Wednesday that keeps the basic wage at $5 a day for a week. The new agreement affects 240,-00- 0 men who work for the various units of U. S. Steel. It includes the Columbia Steel in Utah with plants at Provo. President William Green has become an exclusive fiddler according to reports this week from Miami, Florida, where the executive council of the A- - F. L. has been meeting, members attending races and basking in the sun. It was announced that Green has resigned his membership in the United Mine Workers America. This leaves Green with membership in the Musicians Union, which was given to him for fear that the coal ' affairs. 40-ho- Everybody knew that there was constant friction between the mayor and other members of the city commission. The from the time he won his elecmayor was being double-crosse- d tion two years ago. Every proposal for a better city made by Mayor Erwin was opposed by the commission. MAYOR ERWINS LETTER SPEAKS VOLUMES TO S. L. CITIZENS flict. ur Servility on Ebb Americas overstuffed shirts, like the princess in the fairy tale, have miners would oust him. Mr. Green recently detected a small pea under does not play any instrument not the stacked feather mattresses on even a jews-harwhich they lie. Expels Three Unions At the same time announcements It is a definite decrease in the servility of the working people were given out that the A. F. L. with whom they come in contact, executive council had expelled since the C. I. 0. has spread union United Mine Workers, the Internaorganization among millions who tional Union of Mine, Mill and never knew what union protection Smelter Workers, and the Federation of Flat Glass Workers. meant before. The United Mine Workers of A union man has to work for a living, but he does not have to America is the largest labor organ-iatio- n in North America. It has a cringe before a domineering boss or an arrogant customer lest their membership of 600,000. Its convenpassing whim may cost him his tion in Washington last week unanjob. imously endorsed the C. I. 0., and Under a union agreement, a gave backing to President John L. grievance committee can take up Lewis, who is also chairman of the his case with the employer and de- Committee for Industrial Organizatermine whether his discharge is tion. The miners' convention endorsed justified or not. And if he is fired for union activity, there is re- the New Deal administration of course under the labor relations President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Act. Prophets In Plush Chairs American labor must stand firmthe Insulting Sailors ly opposed to a program of price So now the political and intellec- cutting and resultant wage drops, tual flunkies of the rich are seeth- Lewis told the miners convention in Washington. ing with synthetic indignation. Lewis lashed out at prophets in Union seamen are at present the chief target for their insults, be- plush chairs who suggest that cause this fits in with the cam- workers who are employed only paign to rush legislation against one or two days a week should be forced to take further wage cuts marine labor through congress. in and the name of bringing back prosPapers magazines pick up and repeat again and again the perity. drunken ravings The United Mine Workers, Lewis (usually disincorrected proved later and said, is in the strongest position in conspicuously in a later issue) of its history, and the treasury now some spiteful passengers, whose shows a greater balance than it did remarks are doctored by shipown- at the time of the 1936 convention. ers' publicity men to fit some His description of the U. M. W.s n propa- expenditures to support the C. I. O., phase of their ;o help establish Labors ganda. Then an alleged and unnamed League, to purchase a new ships captain is actually given the home and to help reelect President protection of a senate committee Roosevelt, was greeted with cheerto spew forth in sercret an unbe- ing from the 2000 union members lievable mess of lying and ridicu-- ( who packed every corner of the Continued on Page 5) Rialto theater. p. You recall that my campaign against Mayor (Louis) Marcus was based upon a reorganization of the 'finances of Salt Lake City. My experience was entirely as a business man. Had I anticipated I might be assigned to the public safety department I would never have sought election. Upon learning the commission was considering sending me to that department I did everything possible to avoid such an assignment, even. to creating some feeling among the mem bership of your commission. When the commission was organ ized and I was assigned to the public safety department, appreciating the odorous rumors attendant upon previous admin istrations, I disregarded political pressure and selected as Chief of Police a man well known to the commission and recognized as above reproach. I then had (and now have) complete confidence in the chief so selected by me and in the office manager of that department, and felt I could leave the department to those in charge and devote my efforts to more important general city problems and the manifold duties and assignments imposed upon the mayor. Reorganization Plan Fails Less than two years as head of the public safety department convinced me of the unfavorable position of a public safety commissioner, and for that reason I interested myself in the election of city commissioners who would make possible a reorganization of the commission in January of 1938 and my transfer to another department. This did not materialize. My two years as mayor have not been too pleasant, and I cannot feel that in justice to myself and Mrs. Erwin I should continue in office. I am not unmindful that political forces have made my task no less difficult and that there are those who have wished to discredit my administration. In my opinion it is unfair to the citizens of Salt Lake City to have a city commission wherein complete harmony and cooperation between the members are lacking. In my opinion the mayor of Salt Lake City should not serve as commissioner of public safety or perhaps of any one department, but should rather serve as a coordinating head in supervision of the entire .working machinery of the city. He cannot do both well. (Continued on page 3) anti-unio- Non-Partis- an Prospects are bright for a new contract between the C. I. O. and United States Steel corporation, according to reports from New York City where the conferees for C. I. O. and the big steel are meeting this week. A new contract is expected at an earlv date. The public expressions of the conferees were confined to generalities. I would say progress is being made, remarked President Ben- - jamin Fairless of United States Steel. Philip Murray, head of C. I. O.s steel workers organizing committee, concurred with a nod, as Fairless added: And not a fight yet. (Continued on page 4) |
