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Show f UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, APRIL Ogden 5. 1938. Page 7 . Welcomes You Liveliest and Fastest Growing City In Utah Read tRe Ada LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH when collective bargaining agreements are made by the shipowners, there will be no need for compulsory arbitration measures such as those now proposed by the shipowners and their allies on the senate committee. The proposed measures, he said, would severely restrict the right of maritime workers to strike, and would put crippling limitations on their efforts to raise working and living standards in their industry. (Continued from page 6) passed the resolutions represent a membership of over 100,000 and are scattered throughout the country in Utah, Texas, New York South Missouri, Pennsylvania, Carolina, Ohio, Kansas, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Wisconsin Pointing out that the Labor ReAlabama and California. lations Act was acceptable to the maritime workers, n FURNITURE WORKERS added: REPORT BIG GAINS We can see absolutely no justification for placing any limitations PHILADELPHIA, (UNS) United Furni- on this Act for the benefit of the The particularly when they ture Workers, C. I. O. reviewed its shipowners, are such huge subsidies receiving recent organizational gains at a from the public treasury. conference of its eastern locals here last week. The new C. I. O. affiliate now has HOSIERY UNION PLANS a total of 32,000 members in 46 SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN locals throughout the country. It TO END RUNAWAYS has just signed a closed shop conPHILADELPHIA (UNS) The tract with Showers Bros., of Ameriannual convention of the ' Bloomington, Ind., one of the Federation of Hosiery Worklargest furniture manufacturers In can C. I. O., called for May 2 in ers, the country. obN. C., will be a springand Charlotte, Despite every handicap stacle put in our way by the A. F. board for an intensive drive to of L. Upholsterers International organize southern knitters, accordUnion and other A. F. of L. affili-- . ing to a statement issued this ates, and their use of terrifying week by Emil Rieve, president of tactics, our growth has been steady the Federation. Aim of the campaign will be to and our union has consolidated its declared break down the wage differentials strength enormously, Pres. Morris Muster of the U. F. existing between the south and the W. A. north, frequent cause of runaway shops that seek to escape the union CARBON INDUSTRIAL by locating in unorganized, low COUNCIL MAKES wage areas. CONVENTION PLANS According to Rieve, the northern section of the industry is almost PRICE A committee was named completely organized, with only here Friday at a meeting of the scattered sections to be mopped up. Carbon County Industrial Union The majority of the 55,000 seamcouncil, to make arrangements for less hosiery workers in the south, the first annual state convention of however, are unorganized. the'C. I. O. to be held in Price Fifty veteran organizers will be April 27, 28 and 29. The members employed in the south, to suppleof the committee are: ment the present staff of 15. Nick Thomas, Rains; Ed Scherer, Latuda; Mrs. Beatrice Moses LUMBER WORKERS and Floyd Johnson, Price; Tony GET BACK PAY Krissman, Helper; and Joe Corak Sweets Mine. The SEATTLE, Wash. (UNS) Approximately 150 delegates regional office of the National Larepresenting the 15,000 C. I. O bor Relations Board here ordered members in Utah, are expected tc the Carlisle Lumber company to attend the conclave here, at which $148,413.76 in back wages to time permanent organization wil pay who went out on strike workers be completed, and the first perman- on May 3, 1935. Highest payment ent officers elected. ordered was $3,019, while the average was $1,100. C. I. O. HITS SENATE ATTEMPT TO SHACKLE Wins Blanket Mill MARITIME LABOR By a LEAKESVILLE, N. C. Textile the to 502 of vote 376, CollecWASHINGTON (UNS) tive bargaining rather than com- Workers Organizing committee election at the pulsory arbitration for the mari- won a Labor Board time industry was demanded in a Draper Blanket Mill, LeakesvIIIe, polls letter from Lee Pressman, general N. C., the first of a series of Field Marshall at five held counsel of the C. I. O. to Senators being Thomas and Copeland of the Sen- & Co. plants. ate Commerce committee. Pressman pointed out that the COURT HAS NOT refusal of the shipowners to bar- DECLARED COAL PRICES INVALID gain collectively in good faith with the seamen was the cause of abominable conditions for the sea- (Special to the Utah Labor News) No court has WASHINGTON men on board ships and exceedingly low wages for all maritime declared prices established by the National Bituminous Coal commisworkers. On the Atlantic coast, he said, sion invalid, and the commissions although the National Mairtime order No. 230 did not declare price Union has been certified by the schedules and orders invalid, RobN. L. R. B. as the proper collective ert W. Knox, the commusions bargaining agency for the seamen general counsel, stated in an in over 40 elections, many ship- opinios. The opinion said order No. 230 owners have adopted an arrogant attitude that they will not enter revoked certain prior orders of into collective bargaining agree- the commission for the reason that ments. they had become inoperative due The C. I.O. counsel stated that to causes beyond the control of the Pressma four-month-o- 1 ld sea-boa- rd In. tRe UtaR Labor News not alien to America nor were they imported here unless one holds that the principles of the founding fathers were alien and imported. The League is merely attempting to carry out the purposes for which our American government was founded, but from which America has since departed and the League is doing it in a thoroughly American and democratic way. The League principles are the principles enunciated in the Declaration of Independence. The are the princistimuli. connec- League principles Lincoln of the Besides your past habits there make any mention in that immortal ples of a certain animal that does Government of the are other things having to do with tion people, by the its rooting that way. future and which the for your people, people. your past by may be determined. For instance, A VERY IIAPPY people, ideas, sets of circum- SOUTHERN DEW SHOO stances that once made a very IS POWAFUL STUFF PEOPLE strong impression on you are likeA Utah columnist who recently ly to be easily approved or abA lecturer was of the horred when you again meet them, visited , Tennessee and Georgia Indians who live inspeaking caves and huts according to how they first im- makes this comment in his news- high up in the mountains of eastpressed you. ern Ecuador. The farther away paper: This last accounts for the fact Tennessee liquor, it is true, will from the white man and the white that a person who has made a fair- eat the insides out of a steam mans civilization can get the ly thorough study of just one re- boiler, but Georgia liquor in its better they seem they to like it. And ligious or philosophical system of prime will make a squirrel spit to- yet, said this lady from Ecuador, fathought is quite likely to be bacco juice in the face of a mounthese Indians are a very happy natically in favor of it and feel tain lion. Theres an people, very happy. quite sure that there is very little One swallow and the stars inner jov. Like very young, unif any good in another system. dance a tango. Two swallows and spoiled babies they have not yet Similarily, neople who have you can! start a brush fire with learned to depend on others and on been hurt under a certain system your breath. things to make them happy. They of management or other set of cirA Georgia Cracker, so they (Continued on page 8) cumstances shrink from getting say, eats his victuals raw, takes a into similar jams in the future. On drink of mountain dew and his the other hand, people who have dinner is cooked in his stomach. been successful at one type of That saves washing dishes. work in the cast find themselves easily doing the old things in the THE PRINCIPLES AND IDEALS OF commission and that the express LEAGUE ARE AMERICAN istention of congress, as provided in Section 4, Part II (a) and (b) The experts of the of Bituminous Coal Act of 1937 clans may political reactionary cannot be effectuated by the minimum prices remaining in effect paint the Labors as communistic. This and that the condition thereby League should not make League memcreated is detrimental to the inter- bers a least bit the disturbed by the est of code members. reactionaries. crude the tactics of The courts did not declare prices and ideals of the The invalid, but restrained the commis- Laborsprinciples League are sion, pending further litigation, from enforcing certain of its price orders as they applied to the petitioners. Final determination of the issues was expressly reserved until such time as the commission could certify to the courts comWhen plete records for review. TO APPLY the commission deemed it advisable to revoke its orders bec&use Ammonia Sulphate Fertilizer, Super Treble of its peculiar relief granted by the courts all questions of law Phosphate, Kleenup Dormant- - Oil Spray, which were pending in the courts old ways and bringing to the situation the new things they have since learned. (Continued from page 1) Yes, what you are likely to do is ward society were acquired in days fairly easily predictable by one gone by and practiced until they who knows what you did habitualWhen situations ly years ago, what have been your became habits. in the future upon which you outstanding strong life impressions arise formed a habit of acting in a cer- and what your last years reactions tain way in the past you are likely and tendencies were. to follow the habit groove in making your decisions, unless you Bill Bywater said that some have had a year or so of acting politicians uplift work is done outside those habit ruts on similar mostly with their noses. He didnt NEWS AND COSIMENT -- " red-baiti- ng Non-Partis- Non-Partis- an an Ds The Tome . became moot. Lime Sulphur Sprays, Arsenate of Lead. Some political leaders think the plain people cant intelligently participate in politics. 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