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Show r UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL 8, 1938. Page 4 Labors LOOKING AHEAD POLITICAL OUTLOOK LABOR ON ITS I I FORWARD MARCH Partisan League from (Continued page 3) Non- - I Gymnastic Society, and several dancing clubs. Former hall No. 3 has been remodeled as training quarters for boxers and wrestlers. In the center of the hall is a regulation ring The adjoining cloak and mat. room has been fitted with lockers and showers for the trainees and exhibitors of the manly art. Almost every afternoon exhibition matches in boxing and wrestling are being witnessed by enthusiastic fans of the sport. During the week Manager Richards was busy handling two statewide conventions, a dance or two, and a score of union and club (Continued from Page 1) Motors workers out of their jobs. I not only the future of this nation, I (Continued from page 3) (Continued from page 3) but in some degree the future of negota, workers have licked the Win? 150 Pay the ordered KnuZnannuScetothef"? load including for toppimr, O? ,,S 05 95 rom ran men inff me more than that this hurts centsJ .to t! r? ! centj Democracys Weaknesses on the yield, compared The JSIfi!?rTwnLrt depending andlo'cai "a.' poTm?a. 'plo- t-t wa ee.aTd o" JtUrffiLeISCrishe onht and that reduced tac ito additional mi cents a ton for divfsi", mocracies. and more .particularly! Thc farmers J worker, have on the suppression of organised become the major factor, in Min- Tim beet field workers of Utah keeping mVtVort 1 thank can Agncirltural Work-hs- d echoes with the Congress wailing If Schuschnigg and his associates are The A? p L. Minnesota. But not crushed and outlawed the Th I I inVaSVa sc.ks represomed in Austrian labor movement, their they do not allow their differences Roosevelt a splendid fight for But union put country would not have fallen such to weaken the power of the like General wsb-pJWhen the hearings better of most the Motors, Farmer-Labo- r an easy victim to nazi force. I movement, to which I yajiia aj-- well cushioned. were held m Utah, Frank Bonacci, LABOR IIAS Fascism has advanced in Europe MARCHED AHEAD iJJ 'localities with ruthless and unscrupulous de- n'bSSnelTiira who"! a'in Zuh? secured aZraber' of In the last two years American IIere in utah progressives outside thL wages, jt t and f has marched ahead. labor softness. of labor's ranks have no need to The agricultural workers here with the enrolled five million unhas monopolies It bankruptcy uncerthe It has profited from 8tand back. On the contrary they should realize the worth of organ- organized workers into the trade men tions of business little p of democratic leaders, from must offer their help in effecting and accordingly union ranks. ue jntiesfailures 8o- - Nation of labor, to set their own LnitJr around progressive issues and their coSfcna lack of The walls of open shop fortresses house in order, and from their re- - progressive candidates. Sf worke?I I tection. mflSs WhT come tumbling down when lawith have the luctance to meet fascist aggression jn utah both the A. F. L. i I P11,1!10"3 jere blew the trumpet for union bor confldence and havc ost with equally determined and united and the C. I. 0. can and must make Sg TRADE UNION HALLS recognition. I I resistance. . .concessions. I' In In many industries, wage inHear II HUTTING ON likp th t.e. In resistance to fascism, labor is of-1 SPRING ATTIRE 0ne labor candidate for each creases, union contracts, and betthe key factor. The great masses fjce supported by all labor. ter working conditions testify to of working people have most toj Qne program for all progres-- 1 AT.. I Trade Union halls at 168 South victories w!!, on the economic front. lose and least to gain from the de- - siveg supported West Temple street, are being re- all who defend SnizeseneufTo by Not pS for itself, but also for only I I struction of democracy. decorated and otherwise rear- n democracy. and for other workers Where labor is solidly organized the way to an election That ioliticai Tand to accommodate the grow- - citizens, labor has won recognition. and its behmd aggressive and determined victorv jn igog u0Wu ing list of organizations meeting Where labor organized, it implej nd makinS Toleadership, it is the backbone of the headquarters ;.ay wfn greater to stop the Tht is the power, the tbere. Decorators and artists have mented the Bill of Rights. It ripdemocratic defense. But where It re3 0f reaction. I political power that will block all een jjUsy jg weeh jn the big ball ped the padlockinoff the halls and is weak, or its leaders are spineless I many company progressive legislation, and to let room jn the south end and in the meeting places them and yielding, fascism sees an invl- - UNITED EFFORT distowns, opening them the pass through depression 0ffice rooms and smaller halls in cussion of issues vital toto free tation to advance. ALL WORKERS of all pro-- ( e.' SCm. In this lies the international sig- - MEANS VICTORY the north side of the building, Continued on page 5) I That is why the 1938 elections of the nificance of Lewis speech. Though manager Rjchards, V15ally important to labor hallg devoted to American affairs, its says that the place, when There have been local elections ar I The task .a Progressives. whole tone shows awareness of the aiready that show aj?4, finished, will be among the classi- what est union halls ia the ptermoun- forces that menace our liberties Can happen when labo? is divided, d d new a to ahead The Association 0Tene tain country. and labor's determination that fas- and when labor is united. cism shall not happen here. The A. F. L. and the C. I. 0. gaJ? Vs, absdIute!y necessary. the ciub has leased the entire second the space A Warning and a enter the field, not as political I flor tbus giving double This s the for battle people was rights. I Call for Action originally planned. allies, but as bitter foes. They put necessary because of the demanc Fascism sprouts from economic I up opposing slates. They smear I I for meeting halls office space and collapse, from the domestic strife each others' candidates. The mid-- 1 ipp.Drnol DlaAuKLL club rooms, said Mr. Richards. and savagery against which Lewis and professional people, I I I Among the permanent occupants warns, and from the failure of the logical supporters of progress, T 10n f democratic leadership to cope with become distrustful of both labor F1 STavl s n ot I such situations in time. fe candidates and throw their votes Vn,t 5' iVlto' AS!S?Vimon. Consequently the C. I. O. leader to the reactionary whom everybody can .nr?JLl? uC,y,J? fvf bi Alliance, seeks to shock the country into a has forgotten to expose. The A. F. not think as she does are reds ers, United Ice and Refrigeration realization of the enormous gravity L. man is defeated. The C. I. 0. and communists. At least her Brick and Tile Workers, of the crisis that confronts us. candidate is defeated. The company resolutions and statements at the Workers, Workers Alliance, Athletic Club, deWith 13 million unemployed, he stooge wins, hands down, American Mothers Senti-- 1 A with is America is presented nel league evince that fact. happier picture drifting dares, terrifying and deadly sureness to by the 1937 elections in New York According to Mrs. Openshaw the realm of financial City. There A. F. L. and C. I. 0. reds the never-nevare numerous in Utah. For I bankrutcy, economic collapse and I locajs laid aside their economic and example, she classed the Labors I Womens Auxiliary No. 16 to human tragedy. strictly trade union differences and League as a commu- - Typographical Union No. 115 will While political leaders cavil, got together in support of Mayor nist movement. The League has hold the regular monthly business quibble and quarrel; while Jndus- - LaGuardia and the progressive more than 30,000 members in meeting Monday, April 11, at 2 p. trialists blindly hasten collapse by slate. Thousands of progressives Utah over 10,000 of them in Salt m.. at the home of Mrs. C. A. fighting labor and seek to throw from all walks of life followed the Lake county and, more than five Rodberg, 723 South Second East on its bent and emaciated shoul- - lead of labor. Workers and pro-de- million in the nation. The mem- - street. (A Total of 124 Issues) the full burden of their own gressives won. bership is made up of progressive addition to the regular busiIn From these two examples you Republicans, Democrats, Labor, ness, officers for the failures, it is left for progressive ensuing year can see the problem, and you must independents, etc., both men and will be elected. Members C. I. the One Year Each: as labor, represented by are urged solu-call 0. to sound the urgently needed agree that it admits only one women, who believe in democracy to attend and vote for those whom for the cooperation of all who tion. Labor must isolate the issue and justice to the majority. they prefer for officers of the orThere may be a few communists ganization. have their countrys welfare at of trade union unity, solving it in McCalls Magazine its own time and in its own way. in the heart. The Auxiliarys annual party for League. There Those faint-hearwho constant-- 1 The split cannot be allowed to are also perhaps a few in the Re- the members of the Typographical Pictorial Review bewail the ly emergence of the C. spread to the political struggles publican party, and the Mormon, Union will be at the Art Barn, (Continued on Page 5) I. 0. as a division of labor, (Continued on page 5) Tuesday, April 19. should rather thank their lucky Womans World stars that the leadership of labor no longer rests in the faltering Good Stories hands of a hidebound craft bureauASK TO SEE cracy which would spinelessly bow The Country Home before the storm and offer its neck THESE NEW as a stepping-ston- e for fascists to climb to power. The Farm Journal Instead, through the solid organization of previously unorganized And Your Favorite millions, a new and progressive labor movement has arisen capable of advancing a concrete program UTAH LABOR NEWS to cope with the emergency. 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