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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 6, 1938. Page 4 bill. The House Rules committee has MEET AT PRICE FORWARD MARCH been holding up the bill by a vote of eight to six. The President deplored the status wherein a rules (Continued from Page 1) PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT committee, by a narrow vote, has DEMOCRACY declined to grant a rule, and the Urging congress to make ade- URGES . IN CONGRESS full membership of the house, 435 quate appropriations to the Senate members, is thereby prevented Civil Liberties Committee, which from Chairman In to acting upon the bil. a letter Mary is composed of Senator Robert M. Mr. Roosevelts letter follows: House Labor corn- the Norton of La Follette of Wisconsin, chair mittee, President Roosevelt made Charleston, S. C., April 30, 1938. Elbert Your and Senator letter telling me that as a on a an appeal for House action man, of result the action of eight memThomas of Utah, vice chairman. C. I. 0. LABOR ON ITS COUNCIL Wage-iIIou- r bers of the rules committee a resolution that the State tricts. and hour bill has again been wage Council endorse formation of Coal Processing Study prevented from reaching the floor state central council of C. I .0 C. I. 0. of the house was given to me last the that resolution A womens auxiliaries and providing lend its support for the es- night just as I took the train. for a convention of the auxiliaries council I want to make it wholly clear tablishment of a foundation to proto be held in Salt Lake City on or mote rewas coal of the that the rules under which the before August 1, 1938, to organize ferred to processing executive board for house of representatives acts are the such council. study and action. properly not the concern of the Resolved that legislation provid further President A executive resolution branch of the governendorsing ing for a state tuberculosis sana Roosevelts policies and program ment nor have I any right whatalso torium be amended to provide unanimously adopted. A copy soever as president to criticise the for a state hospital for disablec was resolution will be sent to the rules. the of miners and for the vesting of con President. Nevertheless, because you and I trol of this institution in the hands the demanded resolution are old friends, and because I myAnother of a sanatorium commission rather War- self have been a member of a and Tom of Mooney release than the state board of health. the California legislative body, I feel free to Another resolution condemnec ren K. Billings from . give you my personal view of a the governor of California, the prison. the of seniority difficult situation which has arisThat principle sheriff of Nevada county, Califor be con- en because of yesterdays action mines coal Utah in rights nia, the Newmont Mining coin curred be and the similar preceding action of matter the and that in pany and vigilantes' groups for re- referred to the policy committee of the rules committee several months cent strife in that locality. It stat A. W. of M. U. district 22, ago. law ed that officials had permitted Because of my personal experiUrging proper government offilessness and allowed members of States United the to admit to cials ence, both in legislative and exMine, Mill and Smelter Workers ro citiof establishing the ecutive for capacities, I have a propurpose be driven from their homes. Cana- found respect for and devotion to a Harold Pritchett, .be zenship Declaring for legislation to dian, head of the International the democratic legislative procsought providing compensation for Wood Workers of America. esses.' The continuing fairness of disability arising from occupational any that legislative process is the condemning resolution A diseases. to discontinue I foundation of enduring democ- That a committee be named to move by employers if they are raCy time operations at this study the advisability of providing able continue to It must always be the right of giving employfor transfer of C. I. 0. membership as action such described ment. a It legislative body to reject a bill cards from one industry to anoththe to and if contrary it is not satisfactory to a maer. The proposition was endorsed and state jority of its members. And it is and referred to the national C. I. general welfare of the nation. equally the right of a legislative 0. convention. senaUtah resolution A urging body, through committees, to sift Proposing amendments to the bill, the to out the hundreds of bills which Pettengill tors support Utah industrial compensation act, haul introduced each year, to hold short and the are those long repealing providing compensation for commerce hearings on them, and to proworkers who are made idle through clause of the interstate executive to the duce orderly calendars for the act, was referred illness. of the whole memoard consideration further for study. Protesting the present WPA of action is the democratic A That resolution communiprotesting bership. classification of mining Hulls of State proposal be process. Secretary ties, and demanding that they classified with cities instead of hat this country be made a haven There are, however, certain types The change in .or political refugees from Euro- of measures in each session which rural districts. pean countries was referred to the are of undoubted national import classification would permit a highance because of government and board. executive diser schedule of wages in mining affect the lives of millions of peoHear Engineer L. C. Karrick. research engineer ple. Welcome, Labor always seemed to me that of Salt Lake City, addressed the in Itthehas case of these measures few delegates Thursday. He urged the in any one session the whole Goodyear Rapid reC. I. 0. to assist to set up a of the legislative body search foundation for the process- membership Shoe Rebuilders be should given full and free oping of coal. He said that if the Let Doc Peterson Do It" to discuss them. This foundation is endorsed and set up portunity end in drastic discussion Friends of Labor may he will tum over to it all his patin or recommittal, or amendment, to coal ents on the processing of Brigham City, Utah in even complete rejection. extract oil and manufacture a In the case of wage and hour smokeless fuel and other legislation, the majority party of house is committed to legisthe W. 0. Pell, chairman of the Utah lation by its national platform Aberdeen broth railroad unit of the standard doubt that have an ? personal erhoods, and F. B. Hodges, legisla- memberof COAL the a large majority tive representative of the Brotherbelieves that the of the house ship hood of Locomotive Firemen and All Coal on Cement Floors. should whole as house a pass Its Engineers, addressed the convenAbsolutely All Coal No Dirt such on legislation. tion Thursday. They stressed that judgment You have a situation, howABERDEEN the purpose of the Pettengill bill is PHONE to permit railroads to compete with ever, where a bill was held up byvote of a small commitwater carriers and maintained that i ar majority TV I was then 500 reported by the labor in all inland localities would J?e I tlon debated and re- was system, from its passage. BRIGHAM CITY FRUIT & Labor Leaders Speak PRODUCE COOPERATIVE Sad Story President John M. Ross of disBrigham City, Utah The newspaper reporter went to trict 22, United Mine Workers of America, addressed the delegates see his editor about a raise in sal- Friday. He complimented the C. ary. The reporter told his boss the I. 0. of Utah for the splendid saddest of sad stones. success made and for the cooperaMy family is on the point of WELCOME, LABOR he moaned. tion given to all organized labor. My starvation, He praised highlv the work of wife is terribly ill and my chil Senator Elbert D. Thomas, and dren are running through the streets without shoes on their lit(Continued on Page 7) tle feet. The reporter felt that his pa Success to Labor thetic tale had melted the stony heart of his editor. Surely a boost E. J. LARSEN Union Matle Merin salary was now .his. 662 South 1st West St. enthused the editor, Boy, chandise of Merit thats a great story. Give me PIIONE 212 three columns with pictures! Plumbing and Heating BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH Economy Stokers BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH A anti-soci- committed to the labor committee for further consideration. A new bill has been reported by the labor committee. I do not pass judgment on its merits or demerits. The fact remains that the subject should once more be properly before the house. The rules committee, by a narrow vote, has declined to grant a rule, and the full membership of the house 435 members is therefrom discussing, by prevented amending, recommitting, defeating or passing some kind of a bill to put a floor under wages and ceiling over hours. I still hope that the house as a whole can vote on a wage and hour bill either by reconsideration of this action by the rules committee itself or by the petition route. As I have suggested before, I hope that the democratic processes of legislation will continue. That is my personal view. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. published in the Utah Labor News about the solidarity prevailing in Rochester, N. Y. The following report of conditions in Michigan is of great interest for the same reason.) DETROIT A. F. L. and C. I. 0. unions operate in mutual Non-Partis- an WA8ATCH MINES CO. 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MICHIGAN LABOR STANDS L., telling it to withdraw from LaUNITED DESPITE TOP bors League on the ATTEMPTS TO DISRUPT ground that the League is dominated by the C. I. 0., the Flint central (Editors Note It is encourag- body voted to file the communicaing to receive information now and tion. then that despite the official diviOn state legislation most unions, sion in the labor movement, organ (Continued, on Page 5) al peti-bene- ized workers in majority of the calities pay no heed to the various orders emanating from top headquarters for aloofness between C. I. O. and A. F. L. groups, but on the contrary, continue to work together as they have done in the past. Two weeks ago a story was WntfMim UBeaKcDa Save time and get your answer now by telephone , Whether it's 10 or 1,000 'miles away, you can discuss and decide the matter with no delay. Saving time saves money. Long distance will be glad to tell you the rates to any points |