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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JULY' 22, 1938, LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH BOSS-OWNE- GROUP D ed by W. TO BE DISBANDED UNDER COURT RULE 7Ui7Dl70D The Brotherhood of Railroad Shop Crafts a dummy organization launched in 1934 by a few carriers who wanted to evade the amended Railway Labor Act went bankrupt last week and will be disbanded. It was incorporated under the laws of Kansas. Shawnee county district court of that state appointed a receiver to wind up the defunct company union affairs as quickly as possible. S it was reported by Edward Scherer of Latuda, president of the council. Elmer Hill of Spring Canyon has been named chairman of the Labor Day committee. He will be assist- so-call- ed Williams of Standard-vill- e and Joe Corak of Sweets mine. The committee has been given full authority to formulate plans for the celebration in conjunction with the American Legion. The later group will stage its second annual rodeo, the Robbers Roost Roundup, on September 3, 4 11. and 5. Page 5 serted that it had done much to bring about the three goals set by President Roosevelt when he signed the Wagner Act on July 5, 1935. The board recalled that the President had said: By assuring the employes the right of collective bargaining, it fosters the development of the employment contract on a sound and equitable basis. Cases Handled The board's records show that it has already closed 11,180 cases, involving 2,247,928 workers. Some 55 per cent of these were settled bv direct agreement between the employer and the employs. Another 40 per cent of the closed cases, the NLRB stated, has been With various labor union locals and .womens auxiliaries participating, first aid competition, a parade, and sports, including both baseball and softball will be staged, ending with a grand ball in the evening at the Silver Moon ball room. either dismissed or withdrawn by SENATOR IIOMER BONE the workers. Thus only 5 per cent FEDERAL LOAN TO MAY BE LABOR DAY of the cases have gone to a hearing PIPELINE FIRM SPEAKER AT PRICE and formal review by the board. HIT BY LABOR Only 250 cases and desist orders PRICE The state Democratic have been issued by the boards The DULUTH, Minn. (AFL) committee has been contacted to little more office secure United States Senator Homer T. Bone of Washington as the principal speaker here on Labor Day. One of the liberal members of the Senate, the Washington solons attendance here will make the annual celebration one of the most outstanding ever held. Plans are under way for a huge celebration to be staged in Price by Carbon County Industrial Council, every candidate for reelection vot- ed on labor measures in the last Duluth Federated Trades Assembly voted unanimously against a loan by the U. S. government to finance a natural gas pipeline into northern Minnesota. The Southwestern Kansas Natural Gas company, reported to be largely owned by the Standard Oil company and the Electric Bond and Share company, has applied to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a government agency, for a loan of $20,000,000 to build the pipeline. Delegates to the assembly wre told that the construction of a natural gas pipeline into this section of Minnesota would jeopardize the employment of thousands of workers and injure the business interests. P. F. DeMore, legislative representative of the Brotherhooc of Locomotive Firemen and En ginemen, said 25 to 30 per cent of the business of the railroads is hauling coal and that in addition to decreasing railroad employment the pipeline would also directly af feet workers on the coal docks truck lines and steamboat lines. Congress. They will also want to know how all candidates stand on rule by Rules committee as opposed to democratic procedure. And finally, labor and progressive voters will not be willing to leave their fate in the hands of ale leged friends not even to A. F. L. leaders, but will organize their voting power through Labors League to insure the election of candidates who will fulfill the wushes of the people who hour legislation in the 1937 session elect them. NonLabors but dropped their opposition this PHONE after the C. I. O. campaign year Partisan League had turned DIRECTORY BAN the heat on them. WORRIES INFORMATION The Wagner bill to enforce the (Continued from Page 4) labor relations act on government Woe TOLEDO, Ohio (AFL) contract was killed by A. F. L. candidates won nominations. Ford Loves Morgan is me! exclamais the unanimous nomiMontana voters this week leaders opposition. When labor hires Henry Ford, who nated candidates endorsed by La- indignation mounted at their atti- more criminals than probablyelse in tion coming these days from the anyone information girls employed in the bors League. Jerry tude, they did not oppose the the country to staff his union-bustin- g Toledo office of the Ohio Bell TelOConnell was renominated for W a 1 s h-- e a 1 e y amendment to service men, has posed ephone company. Their trouble is congress from the First congres- achieve similar results, but failed as an archenemy of always Wall Street. caused by the increased wrork resional district. H. D. Rolph was to give it active suport. This attitude has served to supfrom the action of the To sulting defeated by Congressman James E. 3. That democratic government Henrys false halo as a friend ledo Central Labor Council placing OConnor, who was seeking renom- can be thwarted by the arbitrary port of the working man. Now that a ban on the publications ination in the Second district. Both powers of the House Rules com the printed lines have become so n sharply by the firm of R. II. of the successful nominees on the mittee. drawn between progress and re& Sons, Chicago. The Democratic ticket were endorsed This Tory committee, ' composed action, however, Henry is finding Donnelley include Toledo the publications Labors League. by Deal congress- it more difficult to preserve his of pre-NeMost important primaries are entirely telephone directory. used to deny the pseudo-enmit- y was twice men, toward his In accentuating the spirit of the yet to be held. Between now and peoples representatives an opporin financial the resolution 29 adopted by the Council, voters states in September 20, tunity to vote on progressive legis- district. workers, instead of using the telein the midwest, far west, south, lation. One tip was Henrys now noto- phone directory, ask information east and New England, will go to The rules committee also refused rious speech to the dinner for any numbers they wish to call, the polls in this crucial campaign allow a vote on the wage-hou- r bill, of the American Pub- informing the information girls at reactionary in the until it was forced out of their year. What these voters do lishers Association in New York: the same time that they are not us1938 primaries is bound to have hands a petition signed by two-thirby on all the Were spot. Stick to ing the directory because it was effects on the presi House members. the of n son and and myself printed by a your guns my company. dential campaign in 1940. The rules committee also refuse will do all we can to Each a number is acfor request you. help Walsh-Heal-e- y to allow a vote on the The day after delivering this sin- companied by a suggestion that the FOOD FOR amendment, designed simply to ister edict. Henry was discovered telephone company find a new POLITICAL THOUGHT prevent government money being by newspapermen in the act of printer for its 1939 directory. paid to violators of the Labor Act, sneaking into J. P. Morgan & Co. The recent Congress session pro- although that measure had been to a friendly call on the boys RAIL PAY CUT vides plenty of food for thought in unanimously passed by the Senate. whopay still say whats what in Wall OUT WINDOW On the basis of such experience the coming months before the next To tarnish his anti-Wa- ll with the 1938 Congress, labor and Street. halo even election. It showed: Due to a firm stand taken by orStreet more, Henry con1. That labors political power progressive voters will want to labor, there will be no railcustom ganized been ceded his that it had know a number of things of the can get results. road reduction, Wall Street wage some to salutes time for exchange bill was snatched men and women who solicit their The wage-howas advised by Poor Industry and New when in with Lord Morgan from the grave which the House votes in the coming elections. Investment Surveys an informaYork. Rules committee had dug for it, They will want to know how they which for years has tion agency, But now, the Dearborn Wall stand on labors program for the when the Labors been known as the stock markets been Street axis has openly proLeague demonstrated to Congress unemployed, for extending the claimed Bible. statement his in by Henry benefits of social security legisla labors insistent demand for it. Mor2. That A. F. L. high leaders are tion, and for strengthening and en- extending blessings to J. P. LABOR BOARD REPORTS side the best as barrepresenting gan liable to sabotage labors program forcing the right of collective 3 YEARS WORK ON unless forced into line by their gaining through the Labor Rela of Wall Street. Score another point UNDER WAGNER ACT for the C. I. O., which has finally tions Act. rank and file. succeeded in forcing Henry to conhow know to want will A. F. L. top leaders knifed wage- They Three WASHINGTON (UNS) fess his solidarity with the other old this month, the National years big shots of monopoly capitalism. Labor Relations Board pointed to We Extend a Hearty Welcome to Our Labor Friends list of a long and growing Women of Wall Street LONE PINE TAVERN in behalf achievements of organUnion Made Beer on Tap Booths for Ladies Most of the phony organizations ized labor and industrial peace. HARRIS Harry FROISLAND, Prop. which were nourished and inspired In a statement filled with staWas. 10327 . 140 Yj West So. Temple Libthe of American the tistics money by demonstrating the scope erty League crowd have passed into of the boards work, the NLRB as- the beyond where bad political THE MODERN LUNCH NECESSITY schemes retire when they are ex-- j Women WELCOME posed. But not so the FOREST DALE POTATO CHIPS which in Investors America, Inc., Grocers. Your at Imitated But Not Equalled. Fresh Daily still survives on the contributions Rest - Relax - Reduce Manufactured in Salt Lake City by bosses wives and of bosses of CO. CHIP POTATO DALE FOREST themselves. Quite symbolically, re- AT 47 Kensington Ave. PhoneHy:1741 actionary damsels from the Investors gathered recently in front Becks Hot Springs of the New York Stock Exchange to agitate against adequate relief, GREETINGS TO LABOR IN and to pass out throwaways feadisface wrinkled a of turing the NATURALLY PURE FAIRMONT INVESTMENT COMPANY tressed baby protesting the burden MINERAL WATER 406 Beason Bldg. of taxation. To please the moguls' T. F. JACKSON, Manager molls, the lower clawsses appar2321 North Beck Street Hyland 638 Wasatch 3000 I ently must prefer a starving baby lo a baby tainted by federal relief. Boasi old-lin- Non-Partis- an NON-UNIO- Washington than two per cent of the total number of cases involved. Almost 1300 labor board polls, with 450.842 votes cast, have helped fill another of the Presidents aims, the board said By providing an orderly procedure for determining who is entitled to represent the employes, it aims to remove one the chief causes of wasteful economic strife. Many Workers Reinstated stated The Presidents third aim for the Act w'as: By pre venting practices which tend to destroy the independence of on Page 7) N WALL STREET Non-Partis- an H anti-unio- Non-Partis- an w brothers-under-the-sk- 22-wo- in rd ds far-reachi- ng non-unio- Publications (A Total of 124 Issues) One Year Each: McCalls Magazine Pictorial Review Womans World Good Stories The Country Home The Farm Journal And Your Favorite ur Non-Partis- UTAH LABOR NEWS an All Seven Publications Value $4.75 For Only Send your order to the Utah Labor News 28 Fourth East St., Salt Lake City |