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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT Page 2. Utaj Hafjor jftetosf Established 1929 A MEMBER OF THE This paper receives Union News Service, a C. 1. 0. affiliate. Advertising rates by request. $1.50 per annum Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. Publisher M. I. THOMPSON Office Manager L M. THOMPSON Organization BUILD YOUR LABOR UNION! Without it workers are helpless lengthened against wage-cuthours and layoffs. It has helped workers in the past. Labor union needs you NOW, as YOU NEED IT. SUPPORT YOUR UNION! WHAT HELPS LABOR HELPS AMERICA! We stand for what the Constitution stands for domestic tranquility,'' the establishment of justice," and the promotion of the general welfare." UTAH LABOR NEWS. And keep in mind that the LaLeague is the political arm of the workers. bors UNION LABOR STEALS HUGE Non-Partis- an Through it the workers at the ballot box can swat at the sneaking, ANTI-LABO- R ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN double-crossing politicians. Do your best for your labor (Continued from Page 1) among the directors of big corpo- union and join the Labors The pamphlet tells how capital rations. The Morgans and the du League and place the milhas organized to help capital. It Ionts may have their family dif- lion dollar slush fund of Wall urges labor to take similar steps to ferences of opinion about the divi- Street to work for organized labor. sion of profits and other minor organize to help labor. It points out that if the organi- matters. But they are as solid as zation of capital helps capital, by granite against organized labor WORK OF WOMENS the same token the organization of and the liberal program of PresiBUREAU OUTLINED dent Roosevelt, and the Labors labor will help labor. The followipg is a synopsis of League. Break-dow- n of sex lines in many the pamphlets thqt are being circu- IF THIS SOLIDARITY of has resulted from work types lated in labor unions and industrial HELPS BUSINESS THEN mechanization of industry LABOR of the SOLIDARITY rapid plants in many sections and caused YOU! HELPS confusing readjustcountry. ments between mens and womens Organization Helps Business Education Helps Business jobs. This was one problem stressEmployers who shudder at orworkers Millions their of dollars are among ganization spent ey; ed by Mary Anderson, director of are themselves organized. In na- ery year in order to make people ;he Womens Bureau in the U. S. tional manufacturers' association, think as Big Business would have Department of Labor in a report in chamber of commerce, and in lib- them think. Newspapers, books to Secretary Perkins of the work erty league, employers are lined up and the radio spread poison against of the Bureau during the past the labor movement. Wall Street year. to get what THEY mant. uses Boake Carters, Stolbergs and IF ORGANIZATION HELPS Conflicting policies have been other stooges to slander and divide characteristic of womens employBUSINESS IT CAN ment in recent years, Miss AnAmerican workers. HELP YOU! derson said. While on the one IF THIS EDUCATION land women been forced out have Business OF LIES HELPS BUSINESS Solidarity Helps of the ranks of gainful workers by AN EDUCATION OF TRUTH No one can find a red apple ;he pressure of the unemployed, HELPS LABOR! on the other hand there has developed the unsound practice of rePolitical Action Helps men with women at a lower placing Business in is Big politics and in up to the neck. Its Hagues and wage rate, a practice harmful to Daveys, Burkes and Kings, jump ;he interests of all. Therefore, it when Wall Street cracks the whip. las been difficult to make clear Americas Sixty Families say what are the trends of employment But in many industries and occupathey believe in democracy. through their political machines tions. More extensive and complete they act to set up a dictatorship over 129,000,000 American people. data on womens employment and wages than ever before available IF THIS DRIVE FOR will be released by the Womens DICTATORSHIP HELPS BUSINESS LABOR POLITICAL Bureau in the future through arrangements made late last year. ACTION FOR DEMOCRACY The new service which involves coAND MORE DEMOCRACY operation with the U. S. Bureau of HELPS YOU! Labor Statistics, consists of a regular analysis of the trend of womProfits and Salaries ens employment and earnings In 1937 the profits of the bigger to information secured at according corporations exceeded $4,500,000,-00intervals from the payA number of the heads of the rolls of thousands of factories in $250,-000 were big corporations paid to $500,000 as salary for the the 12 states employing three-fourtof the women in manufacyear. Many of the salaries paid to in the country. . each was more than ten average turing Assemble Data could workers earn in a lifetime. The Womens Bureau has begun busilike this If good pay helps to assemble data furnished by the Conciliation Service in the U. S. Doing Very Well Department of Labor on the numHas your wife changed very ber of women involved in strikes much since you married her? Informathroughout the nation. Yes; my habits, my friends and tion on industrial disputes in a semy hours. g inlected list of dustries that had applied to the Conciliation Service for assistance in the settlement of disputes, showed that 6,000 women were affected by these controversies from July 1 to December 1, 1937. These women worked in 25 industries and conof the workers stituted two-fiftNon-Partis- an an 0. sitf-mon-th hs woman-employin- Consult this friendly bank on matters pertaining to your finances hs Walker Bank & Trust Company al making, laundries, and clothing manufacture. Low wages for women was a subject which absorbed much of the time and energy of the Womens Bureau in 1937 in accordance with its program of diagnosing the economic ills of women workers and recommending remedies. Though significant advances have been s, Non-Partis- for the first involved in these particular dis- status. The request made was by the Inof data that type putes. The evidence idicates em- ternational Labor office and for the certain large industries that of second by the Secretray-Generploy many women and that often One of the Nations. of have been known to pay very low the League reports submitted to Geneva, that wages are those in which the on womens economic status, was greatest number of women have texpublished by the Bureau during been on strike. For example, the numyear and is receiving wide distile mills showed the largest The study of bers ' affected followed by cigar tribution and use. Education Back up the program of education your labor union is putting on. Or if none has been started get in touch with the education and research department of your union and start one yourself. Only through understanding of the labor movement can workers know how to build labor unions and DEFEAT made in the minimum-wag- e prothe THE UNION BUSTERS! the country, gram throughout matter March 28, 1930, at the post office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. second-cla- ss Subscription ness why shouldnt it help the workers? If workers are helpec by good wages, the butcher, the baker and the grocer whose goods workers buy would be helped. WHAT HELPS LABOR HELPS AMERICA! THESE THINGS ARE GOOD FOR YOU AND FOR AMERICA! 04 Entered as LAKE CITY. UTAH. MARCH 4. 1938 Stue'poinfc CIGARS l) womens legal status has not yet been released. as Adventuress! The wife of a prominent man was out for a walk and got caught in a heavy shower. Entering a shop for shelter, she made several purchases and remarked to the young lady clerk that the shop seemed very quiet for what should be a busy day. Yes, that is so, replied the challenging fact remains that more clerk, and, looking out of the winthan half the states as yet have no dow, added, but what respectable laws. minimum-wag- e person would venture out on a day Minimum Wage , like this? A special study of the effects To The Point of minimum-wag- e legslation was received notice to quit had Pat Bureau conducted last year when his landlord. estab- from agents visited Now, Pat was very fond of his octhis where in lishments Ohio, and most unwilling to leave house, cupation is subject to a minimum-wag- e it. advice and So he took order, and similar plants in was assured that legal to his according Indiana, a state which does not lease the landlord was not entitled regulate womens wages and hours. to give him notice. The report on this will be available Pleased as Punch, Pat went some months hence. home to write to the landlord. Womens living costs were of This is the letter he sent; particular concern to the Womens Dear Sir: I remain, Bureau last year because of the Yours truly. fact that a number of the minimum-wage laws, particularly the new ones, provide that the wage set be based on the cost of living of the woman worker. The urgent problem of unattached women on relief received consideration by the Women's Bureau during recent months. In two instances in 1937 the Women's Bureau acted as spokesman for all American women through contributing to international studies of womens position in one case their economic status, and in the other their legal dry-cleani- ng Received large shipment of Union Made Clothing, Hats and Shoes for Fall showing. Come Now available Stelniei the more coi venlent bottl 12-o- z. in and see them. ROSENBLUMS 59 East 2nd South and FINER BEER Handier Bottles 32-o- z. Jub bos the ec nomical famll; size bottle (pa teurlzed). |