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Show I UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. APRIL 29. 1938. 0. UTAH C. I. MEET AT PRICE salary and expense could be paid on a full time basis. Those elected to office and beginning their terms on August 1, 1938, to serve until July 31, 1939; a convention to be held on or before July 31, 1939. . . . National C. I. O. Representatives of the C. I. 0. National and International Unions met in Washington, D. C. for a two day session, April 12 and 13th. The reports made to this conference were heartening indeed. Representatives of 39 national and international unions were present. In spite of the und each employment, reported re markable progress being made, contract renewals, which maintained wage standards, had been negotiated covering hundreds of thousands of workers in steel, automobile, radio, rubber, textiles and scores of other industries; embracing great industrial concerns such as United States Steel, Chrysler Motor, General Electric, Postal Telegraph and scores of other great industrial concerns. During the past six months it was reported to this conference seven International Unions have been added to C. I. 0. affiliates. They were the United Furniture Workers, the Packinghouse Workers, the Quarry Workers, the Utility Workers, National Maritime Union, Inland Boatmens Union of the Pacific, and the Marine Cooks and Stewards of the Pacific. Sixteen State Industrial Union Councils are functioning including state councils in great industrial states such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Massachusetts. State Councils are also being organized now in Indiana, California, Iowa, and Michigan. . . This conference also adopted a ten point program calling for relief and work for the unemployed. (Continued from page C) Mine Workers of America, because in my opinion our members shouh have the information containec therein and also it is of particular interest here because of the splen did work of Senator Elbert I) Thomas of Utah, one of the out standing committee members. In this connection the gratefu. acknowledgement of labor must be given to the Senate Committee on Civil Liberties, and particularly to Senators La Follette of Wisconsin and Thomas of Utah, for their tireless probing into the organize suppression of the rights of workers. Their investigation and re port upon industrial espionage re d veal how this system has become in American industry. Recommendations Mr. Morgan recommended some changes in the State Council laws. Among these was that section 3, article 4 be amended to permit the secretary-treasurto exonerate members of local unions who are idle through sickness, injury, unemployment, strike or lockout. After giving careful thought to this subject, I suggest the follow ing plan for your consideration: That the present set up of the State Council be continued to August 1, 1938, with the present officers and board members. Officers elected by this convention to take their position August 1, 1938. That the executive council after August 1, 1938, should decide if funds available would permit the president to go into the field on a full time basis on whatever salary and expense that is set by this convention. The executive s council having full power to place Conclusion the president in the field on AugSince I will as your presust 1, 1938, or delay placing him in ident when the retire new officers qualthe field to a later date whenever you will agree that the recomfunds justified them in believing ify, mendations submitted have no motive so far as I am concerned exBest Wishes to Labor cept to see the Utah State Council function efficiently and with a Magic Chemical Co. minimum expense to our members in the way of tax payments. 135 E. 2nd So. Salt Lake City There has been in the past and Janitorial Supplies For All my sincere hopes is that it may Buildings continue, splendid cooperation beLet Us Solve Your Cleaning tween the groups organized under Problems the .state C-- I. O. We have had Call Was. 1867 for Demonsplendid assistance from the offi cers of District No. 22, United Mine stration. We Manufacture Workers of America and likewise and Specialize in Cleaning from the officers of District No. 2 Material of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Insecticides, Deodorants, Workers. To the officers of both Liquid Soap districts I extend my sincere Ml thanks. To the officers and members of all affiliated local unions I also exBest Wishes to Labor. Try tend my earnest appreciation of their loyal support; the thanks of the Utah State Industrial Union Council for their splendid work since the date of their organiza-iowide-sprea- wide-sprea- er 7 Lucky Lager Beer UNION MADE n. The Dated Beer One of the Worlds Really Fine Beers All Rail Shipped We are a part of a great movement, one that meets present day needs of the workers in its plan of organization. Meeting machines, in industry with an industrial form of organization, that gives hope and LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH (Continued from Fage 6) lowed company union meetings on company time, gave free use of company office space for meetings, which were advertised in the com pany bulletin, donated free stationery and supplies, and gave free telegraph service for the purpose of calling meetings. Promotions, seniority, wage in creases and all other benefits were made dependent on mem bership in the company union, according to the Labor Board. At the same time, officers of the company continually attacked and vilified genuine labor organizations. - Discrimination Charged Western Union workers who joined A. C. A. were spied upon, the Board charged, and were fired for C. I. 0. membership or even sympathy. A large army of undercover men was maintained to watch for C. I. 0. symptoms among the workers, spying on them at work and even following them to their homes during time. Mervyn Rathborne, president of A. C. A., announced in New York that suit would be begun immediately for return of the $500,-00- 0 forced out of the workers. He also stated that 5000 Western Union workers had been fired in n the companys drive. on the Boards comHearing plaint was set for May 2, in New non-worki- ng anti-unio- York. CHICAGO (UNS) Among victories won recently by Packing House Workers Organizing Committee in the widdle west is a Labor Board election conducted at the Illinois Meat company, Chicago. United Packinghouse Industrial Union 762 won out by a vote of 762 to 71, according to Don Harris, PWOC director. The Illinois Meat local was chartered by the C. I. 0. in January. SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBERS Applications for social security account numbers received by the Social Security Board at the end of March amounted to 38,237,877, the Board has announced. , of Following is a break-dowr- n the total number of applications made in the states: Utah, 141,298; Wyoming, 60,918; Arizona, 133,639; Colorado, 294,-82Idaho, 120,893; Montana, 139,-01Nevada, 35,786, and New Mexinter-mounta- in 8; 3; ico, 88,425. labor-smashin- g, REALTORS MEET HERE JUNE 6 to semi-skille- N 7 VOGELERS 32 W. 1st South sions. Was 804. Mr. Williams, Mgr., Friend of Labor zr The Store Where Quality Rules, and Satisfaction Guaranteed F. J. LUCAS Fine Groceries 2 Phones - Quality Grocers Right Prices Prompt Delivery Hy. 329 Hy. 328 808 East Second South Including in the planning committee are, John W. Crofts, president, Salt Lake Real Estate Board, and Fred Froerer, president of the Ogden Real Estate Board. This will be a red letter event in Utah history; it being the first time such a convention has been held in our state, said Mr. Crofts, for preventing wage slashes. Steel has suffered more in this slump than any other industry. If that undertakings g. anti-lynchi- 0! ng R: Bennion COAL UNIONISM AND Union Alined PROSPERITY slump present business brings out more clearly than any other incident could how essential unionism is to the workers. We can recall the bitter days of when Hoover 1930 and 1931 industrialists together brought and extracted from them a solemn promise not to cut wages. The ink had hardly dried on their signatures to the no wage-cuttin- g pledge before they slashed workers rates right and left. Leading the army were the widely of wage-cutte- production inmass unorganized dustries steel, automobile, cement, The etc. That the recession at this time is not followed by the usual pattern in many instances of wage-cuttinworkers are able to obtain wage increases, is due to only one factor: workers in the industries are organized and they are now in a position to challenge any attempts at reduction. There is no doubt in any one3 mind that the renewal of agreements between U. S. Steel and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, embodying existing wage rates, was the paramount reason g, mass-producti- Hyland 5935 BENNION GAS & OIL 2240 So. State St. Welcome, Labor Saif Lalte Laundry 881 So. Main We do all classes of good LAUNDRY WORK on Phones: Was. 1375 - 1376 We are as close as your Telephone THE CHESAPEAKE BUFFET Union Made Beer on Tap Sandwiches S. P. Smith Ladies Invited Hallmark 25 West Second South Phone Wasatch 10390 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Bill BEST WISHES TO LABOR. CALL LAYTON ROOFING CO. All Types of Roofing Built Up Roofs a Specialty 1865 So. 3rd East Prompt, Courteous Service Hyland 3057 NEWS AND COMMENT WELCOME, LABOR (Continued from page 1) 0 union accepts a per cent cut. wage BEST WISHES TO LABOR 10-2- Home of All Major Electrical Appliances Refrigerators--Wash-eService. Ranges Vacuums Radios. Prompt and Efficient See Needs For Your Electric Appliance rg RADIO STUDIOS, Inc. STORES APPLIANCE 2317 Wash. Blvd., Ogden 136 East Broadway, Salt Lake City. CRYSTAL FURNITURE CO., LOGAN EFFIGY: An effigy of Hitler supposedly blocked traffic in Times Square, N. Y. City during a very dramatic and successful anti-Nademonstration. The bearer was arrested. ... SUFFRAGETTES: zi The Women CO. WELCOME, LABOR TURKEYS-DUCKS-CIII- - 7 industry could maintain wage rates with there was no valid reason for any much hymn-singin- g inside, their other industry to do worse. No chauffeurs helped policemen beat other industrialists could find jusup protesting pickets outside. As tification for wage-cuttinyou may have guessed no members And tho fact that wage-rate- s of trade unions or ladies auxil- are being maintained, though labor iaries belong to this organization. has to fight onslaughts on its income in too many instances, is putCOSTS: Senate attaches have es- ting a floor to the depth of the detimated that the total cost of the pression. It is preventing condifilibuster was $460,-00- tions from getting worse and may be instrumental in bringing about an early return of normal business INSUBORDINATION: Twenty-si- x activity. ' members of the Norwegian Anyone can say what they will Seamens union were arrested for about the C. I. O., but in this derefusing to take scrap iron to pression it has demonstrated that Japan on their freighter. They also by its organizing the mass producface trial for insubordination in tion industries in industrial unions, Norway. it hai performed a great service to the nations workers, not the GUARDS: Governor Benson of least of which was the prevention Minnesota ordered court martial of wholesale wage-cut- s. proceedings against Major Clark of. the national guard, who was It thus becomes evident that if found 'to have unlawfully used the anyone fights any particular indusnational guard in a labor dispute. trial union, it is fighting labor as a whole. And thus those who would HOLLYWOOD: Burns and Allen, dismember any union are Ethel Merman, Jack Benny, are making an effort to dismemberreally the some of the stars who assisted whole labor movement, deflate Chairman Anna May Wong in a wages and slow up the upward inChinese benefit. . . . The Holly- dustrial trend. wood Committee for the Freedom of Mooney and Billings, which include such celebrities as Groucho West Wishes to Our Labor Marx, Frederic Marsh, Robert Friends Montgomery, Luise Rainer and Paul Muni among many others, is Always Select S. & W. Rehelping to carry the fight to Washfrigeration. Freshness Guarington. anteed by 20 Years of Experience. Call or Write Mayor Cratty is only mayor of Belvidere, 111., halfS. & W. Refrigeratime. The other half he is foreman of the National sewing mation Co. chine plant. In dual capacity he led vigilantes in a brutal attack on 50 So. 2nd West. Was. 4838 C. I. 0. strikers. Salt Lake City Twain SYMPATHY: Judge Michelsen of San Francisco said that two persons arrested for pickBest Wishes to Labor eting Bordens Milk company as a protest against the high price of milk were doing a public service, Coal Co. and added, I feel like going out on He the milk picket line myself. Hot, Clean sentences. the men gave suspended their fascist rs Real estates place in todays all workers, economic picture, real estate busid unskilled. and skilled, Distributed by That brings closer together all ness questions in todays market, NELSON-ANSOCO. those who perform useful work, real estate from the investors Salt Lake whether by hand or brain. What viewpoint these will be the leadWEBER DISTR. CO. the future holds for us and those ing subjects of discussion for a we represent depends upon our- southwest regional conference of Ogden selves. If we sincerely believe in the National Association of Real HELPER MERC. CO. ideals the of organization, we have .Estate Boards to be held in Salt Helper now to move for- Lake City, June 6 and 7. movement the WINK EL DISTR. CO. The conference, open to anyone we are loyal, determined ward. If Richfield and perservering, future progress interested in real estate, is being is assured. planned for the real estate boards of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah, with realtors from ColoCKS Welcome, Labor - See Us For rado, Wyoming, Idaho and New From selected stock, bring big profits. All varieties including heavy breeds Mexico invited to attend. WE DELIVER FREE Werner Kiepe of Salt Lake City SEEDS - BULBS - PLANTS will preside at the appraisals sesencouragement of the Pacific held a meeting in Los Angeles, Cal., to promote their anti-trad- e - union d sugar-coateWhile they program. TWO-TIME- UNION WINS VOTE AT ILLINOIS MEAT CO. C. I. O. Page New Park Mining Co. Was. 1861 Salt Lake City Property Located in Blue Ledge and Uintah Mining Districts, Park City, Utah Newhouse Bldg. |