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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, APRIL 15. 1938. Page 3 Must Find Realistic Remedy For Unemployment and Relief Talking on the subject of unemployment and relief, John L. Lewis told a meeting of C. I. 0. leaders in Washington this week that the Administration must find a realistic remedy and apply it at once. Lewis said that ' wishful thinking needs to be replaced by well planned action ; that jobs in private can be industry the uner of the Federal leadership cr5,aec government if it will start the creation of purchasing power. The C. I. O. and the unemployed do not want g jobs. They want houses, slum clearance, schools, hospitals, flood control, and sound recreation, Lewis declared. contract covering more than 2000 MARK WAS MOVING employes in the Ottumwa plant of the Morrell Packing company, has One day Mark Twain arrived in been won by the C. I. O. local of a Canadian hotel, and, glancing packinghouse workers. the register, took note of the oyer overThe membership voted signature of the last arrival: whelmingly to accept the contract Baron and valet. which provides for recognition of Twain signed; the C. I. O. local as the sole bar- clerk looked at theand when the register, this gaining agency for all employes met his leaf-rakin- except those in supervisory capacity, vacations with pay, seniority rights, and pay increases for cerd tain groups of employes. The contract remains in effect until terminated or altered by agreement after 30 days notice by either side. low-pai- MEEK, BUT . - A clergyman had cause to reprove one of his parishioners. The latter lost his temper, and as a parting shot shouted: If I had an imbecile son would make him a minister! Your father thought different-lyreplied the cleric meekly. POLITICAL OUTLOOK (Continued from page 2) tigation by the Federal Deposit InI surance Corporation, with which they would also have to file re, ports; (5) authorize the FDIC to revoke government insurance on any bank violating any provision of the act. Senator Glass states that about 50 holding companies now control 500 banks possessing more than of all the bank assets of the nation, believes that his bill is essential if banking is not to be concentrated in a few tremendously powerful hands. Chance of the bills passage seem fairly good, though it may be toned down in one-seven- th some particulars. NOT ENCOURAGING FOR REPUBLICANS IN ILLINOIS Greetings to Labor Fetzer Fetzer & Architects and Engineers TEMPLETON BUILDING WASATCH 1017 Dine and Dance in The state-wid- e primaries in Illinois Tuesday do not give any encouragement to the Republican party of this nation. The G. O. P. vote dropped several hundred votes under the estimates of Republican leaders on the eve of the primaries. On the other hand the Democratic vote reached all-tirecords. The Democrat candidates running in the primaries made their race for nomination on a New Deal platform. Republican leaders made every possible effort to bring out a large vote. Their slogans were Pile up a big Republican vote and disapprove New Deal. Large Republican vote will mean a victory in November, and Republicans and a square deal. All the appeals and catchy slogans fell on deaf ears of the Illinois electorate who marched to the polls and voted Democratic. The Illinois primaries were the first in the 1938 campaign. And very discouraging, indeed, to the Tlte pc G. O. P. EASTER SOCIAL iSe The Scandinavian American CivLeague of Salt Lake county, will hold an Easter celebration, April 16 at 8 p. m., in the I. O. 0. F. hall, 41 Post Office place. Senator Lawrence E. Nelson will give a short talk on pertinent gov. B-O-O ic FRIDAY and SATURDAY Enchanting Music Entertaining Floor Show Excellent Cuisine No Cover Charge When Dinner is Served ernmental questions. A native Scandinavian orchestra will perform. Folk and .native dances will be featured. . Refreshments will be served. R. C. Waring will preside. - Regulation Essential To Coal Industry Special to the Utah Labor News Now available Stelnle the more co 12-o- z. venlent and 32-o- bos FINER BEER Handier Bottles , z. bott "Jui the ec nomical famll size bottle (pa teurlzed). FOR GOOD QUALITY UNION MINED COAL DELIVERED BY UNION DRIVERS TELEPHONE WASATCH 4600 Best Wishes to Labor. Call Gudgell Sheet Metal Works Sheet Metal Contracting ASK OUSTER OF MINE INSPECTOR Air Conditioning-Ventilatin- g Stainless Lark local No. 91, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, has filed a petition with JOHN L. LEWIS the state industrial commission asking removal of E. A. Hodges as on her white hair, may have ap- state metal mine inspector. The petition alleges that Hodges peared a trifle out of place in that she has failed to carry out the duties but gathering of coal men, to his of her earned office, and charges that folmost certainly right be there. In 1927, she inherited lowing the death of William in the Lark mine of the U. S. certain Colorado coal properties She Smelting, Refining and Mining Co. upon the death of her father. enin 1934, Hodges issued an order for to stock then bought enough able her to control the company in changes in timbering methods, but order that she might change its failed to enforce the order. Last March 31 Samuel A. Ilolt policy and unionize its labor. Her killed in the same mine, and unionized was mines were the first union contends the death the Colorado. mines in would not have occurred if the orher previous Enlarging upon had For der been enforced. statement, she continued: demonstrated years it has been that without government regula- C. I. O. LONGSHOREMEN tions, chaos has prevailed in the HOLD WEST COAST industry, with labor, the people, DISTRICT CONVENTION all paying a and management heavy and tragic penalty. During ABERDEEN, Wash. (UNS) even the brief periods of Federal from points as far away regulation we have known, all par- Coming Hawaiian Islands, San the as made ties have benefitted and and Alaska, California, Diego, progress. Panumerous from the became 1934 in delegates who Miss Roche, Internathe locals coast of cific a member of the Presidents little Warecabinet as assistant secretary of tional Longshoremens and in AbUnion housemens gathered of public the treasury in charge L. to the I. attend Wash., health, from which she resigned in erdeen, convencoast district U. W. west November, 1937, declared today opened April 4. that she was definitely out of pol- tion which the is first convention to be It mainstill She itics at present. held since the I. L. W. U. voted to tains a lively interest in public with the C. I. O. in Augaffiliate health problems and while in 1937. ust, Washington will attend a meeting ComMayor Krumholz of Aberdeen, a of the former of longshoreman himself, welthe mittee for comed the delegates. Harry Health and Welfare In the Federal L. W. U. president and I. Bridges, Government. west coast C. I. O. director, predicted in his opening speech that LABOR ON ITS 90 per cent of the east coast longwould vote to join the FORWARD MARCH shoremen C. I. O. through affiliation with the I. L. W. U. before the end of Sep(Continued from page 1) tember. Inland an Frank Vojvoda, examiner Board told the worker, C. I. 0. WINS RELIEF of outright intimidation by fore- FOR 10,000 COTTON men and straw bosses in charge of PICKERS IN ARIZONA organizing the independent. The company made futile efforts PHOENIX, Arizona (UNS) to prove that the SWOC did not C. I. O. has won a victory in The in its plants, represent the workers Phoenix for 10,000 stranded cotton 700 witnesses of bringing a total were left to shift for who to the three and a half month pickers in hundreds of camps themselves hearings before the Board. These the Salt River valley throughout men swore that they had left cotton after growers had wealthy SWOC to join the Independent, and that as a result SWOC had finished with them. From Governor Stanford of Arilost its majority. zona and relief officials, E. A. SWOC the Majority international organizer for Kope, and , Actual count of membership United the showed Cannery, Agricultural, with payrolls comparison the SWOC to have a large majority Packing and Allied Workers of of the workers in the plants even America won the following agreement: conceding that those who joined 1. That immediate relief, with were the Independent genuinely trucks and case workers working out of the SWOC. This count exto would be given on a the limit, cluded all supervisory employees, mass in scale all the cotton camps clerks and a number of other of the Salt River valley. groups. 2. the governor and the This, and the character of the variousThat officials would government union, caused the independent the United officially recognize was SWOC Board to rule that the Cannery, Agricultural, Packing collective the sole bargaining and Allied Workers C. of America, in the plant. agent (Continued on page 4) MORRELL PACKING CO. Steel Work Trim 116 W. 2nd So. and Was. 5174 FRANK GUDGELL, Mgr. Friend of Labor Mc-Om- ie , Inter-Departmen- tal WASHINGTON Federal legislation and federal regulation are essential to the coal industry, in the opinion of Miss Josephine Roche, president and general manager of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company of Colorado, the only woman president and general manager of a coal company and the only woman attending the conference of coal producers and the National Bituminous Coal commission on price establishment procedure PACT COVERS 2000 this week. All groups concerned in its welOTTUMWA, Iowa (UNS) fare and progress the investors, management, labor and the public Easter Greetings have a vital stake in sound and Welcome, Labor constructive regulation, she told Coal commission officials. Miss Roche, small and feminine, dressed in a tailored black suit, a small black hat perched jauntily Call the STANDARD FUEL CO. eye: Mark Twain and Valise. A 902 E. 27th So. Rinetti and F. Capitolo, Props. 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