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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, APRIL 15. 1938. Page 4 Labors Adult Education And Democracy LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH Partisan League Non- - The Function of Adult Education in a Democracy is the theme s of the second annual Mountain-PlainEduConference on Adult cation, to be held at the Cosmopolitan hotel, Denver, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 18, f from page 3) I. 0., as the agency for employed and unemployed cotton Vorkers. 3. That arrangement would be made for definite future relief for these workers. :: 4. That the governor would cooperate with the union in gatherWAGE-HOURILL. ing evidence for an official public -- A. ; Members of congress who seek exposure of the methods resortei i It jyuffiiri to run home to protect THEIR to in fooling cotton pickers to come jobs without doing something to to Arizona. protect the WORKERS jobs will not be returned by the people. A. P. I COUNCIL Congress cannot expect the voters USURPED POWERS, to send them back to Washington HOWARD CLAIMS unless they do NOW what they were sent there for in the first EncroachWASHINGTON place. The wages and hours bill ments upon the autonomy of inter was a definite pledge in the 193G national unions and interference in campaign. It is long overdue. The jurisdictional disputes as in the CHARLES P. HOWARD people want ACTION AND AC- case of the Brewery Workers, was TION NOW! charged against the executive council of the American Federation of ship of the minority over the Labor by Charles I. Howard, pres many. LEAGUE ident of the .International TypoFORMS HELPER UNIT Right to Levy Tax Howard contended that the A. F. graphical Union, in a debate here with Frank Morrison, secretary-treasur- L. has failed to organize more than A unit of the of the A. F. L., on the 3,500,000 of the 40,000,000 organiz-abl- e at has been organized League O.-I. C. elected F. L. controversy. was workers and declared that Krisman John Helper. Morrison, a member of the I. T. jurisdictional lines was the cause chairman. Other officers are: Raymond U. and for over forty years an of- of the failure. Leo ficer of the A. F. L., predicted that Workers were asked to join and and vice chairman, Tucson, the C. I. 0. will eventually lie be- pay dues in two or three unions, J. OBrien of Standardville, secretary-treasurer. side other dead organizations. It he said. Some of us felt the Fedcontact committee has become the ideal of a few men eration should relax its organizaA west-sid- e consists of Pete Borla, Aleck who tried to establish a dictator- - tion plan. We proposed to give Benes and James Scarselli, and the includes east - side committee Louis Rich, Frank Barker and Adam Ostovich. At the recent meeting Frank state president of the league, spoke regarding purposes of the organization, and touched upon the direct primary and its advantages conover the old vention system. He was a member of the state legislature which passed the law last year. Urging that members conduct individual campaigns to explain the new measure to the public, Val H. Cowles discussed the primary laws method of operation. Members of OFFER NO. 1 the league were welcomed in an opening talk by Mayor George THE UTAH LABOR NEWS for one year Spratling of Helper. (Continued from rage 1) with other state congressional delegations. Congressman Abe Murdock and J. Will Robinson of Utah are for the wages and hours bill. CONGRESS MUST NOT ADJOURN WITHOUT FASSING A (Continued 19, R NON-PARTISA- '' ,v N Non-Partis- n, er an A. Bo-nac- . boss-controll- N Labor and liberal forces of Park City are meeting this (Friday) evening at the Miners hall to form a unit of the Labors League of Utah. Among those who will address the meeting is State Senator Eld-re- d M. Royje, chairman of the League organizing committee. Non-Partis- an Hprjji iCompaSI! LOS ANGELES FORMS LABOR'S LEAGUE N LOS ANGELES Formation of a Los Angeles county Labors League was accomplished here at a two-da- y convention, atNon-Partis- ions an tended by 233 delegates from 37 C. I. 0., A. F. L. and independent unions with a membership of M'CALL'S 100,000. Officers elected are Hugh Wilkins, chairman, representative of the railroad brotherhoods; L. H Michener, vice chairman, member of United Automobile Workers, C I. 0.; Dan R. Healy, secretary member of the Painters union, A F. L., and Maxine Furman, treasurer, member of the Musicians union, A. F. L. Appointed to the executive board were 10 A. F. L. members, 10 C. I. 0. members, three railroad brotherhoods members, and one member of the Workers Alliance. ORGANIZING NOTES ATH1 WOW Delegates rep resenting 162,569 members of C. I. O., A. F. L. and independent unions organized Labors League of Massachusetts at a convention in Boston on Sunday, March 27, which for attendance and enthusiasm outdid any other labor gathering in this state in recent years. Adolf A. Berle, Jr., assistant secretary of state to Cordell Hull, as main speaker told the audience that your action today brings New England labor in to existence as a political force. Non-Partis- ITS COLUMBUS, Ohio More than 400 delegates, representing about half a million voters, met in the first constitutional convention, elected permanent officers and mapped extensive campaign plans to defeat Gov. Martin' L. Davey. John Owens, president of the Ohio (Continued on Page 5) 7 Mg (Check the Magazines You Want) (A TOTAL OF ... ..... Worn cm's Homo Companion 1 Yr. Pathfinder (Weekly) 1 Yr.-American Boy 8 Mo. McCall's Magazine 1 Yr. Silver Screen . . . . . 1 Yr. Pictorial Review 1 Yr. Modem Romances 1 Yr. True Confessions . . 1 Yr. 1 Yr. 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MEMBERSHIP VOTES DOWN the workers the kind of organiza- A. F. L. ASSESSMENT tion they wanted, not to pour them into the mould of 50 or 60 years According to unofficial returns from the referendum election of the ago. he declared em- International Typographical Union, Jurisdiction, phatically, is the right to collect the membership has voted against per capital tax from the workers. the special assessment of one cent Morrison claimed that the C. I. (Continued on page 5) vi f O. and its destructive activities have created a baneful influence in the labor movement, and he accused it of disregarding the rights of existing unions. There is, he said, no possibility of a laborxlictatorship in the A. F. L." Baker Absent Howard told the I. T. U. members here that he had never attempted to take the I. T. U. into the C. I. O., and would not until such time as I believe that' a majority of members want to take He said he had afthat step. filiated with and become secretary of the C. I. 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