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Show 4 1- - is s t I. A (. ify IReview ofi Ourreinit Evento 00 c: fcJLtff EDUCATE ORGANIZE TBE PEOPLES PAPER COOPERATE VOL X; NO. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. OCTOBER 15 Wall Street A. F. L. ANNUAL BIG STIR IS AN ATTACK ON WAGNER LABOR ACT REPORTS Price: By M. L T. Cents Per Copy F. L. Reactionaries flews and Comment CONVENTION 5 ( jfeat Labor Peace Plan As was to be expected, the reactionary element in control JOHN L. LEWIS IS THIRD DAY The big stir in Wall Street dur the American Federation of Labor convention in Houston, A REAL LEADER inff the past few weeks has not feated the peace plans proposed by more progressive HOUSTON (ILNS) Oct. 5 Gov-ernbeen in the stock market but rather John L. Lewis, chairman of ti Richard W. Leche, of Louisiin the growing momentum of the fganizations. Committee for Industrial Organi concentrated attack on the central ana, aroused the convention to wild Matthew Woll, the well-know- n reactionary, who has bulwark of the American progres- enthusiasm and kept the hotel cor zation, is a real leader of labor served chairman as of the conventions resolution committees sive movement the Wagner Labor ridors buzzing for hours afterwarc forces. Because he is a leader of men and has from heart the at interest time led the fight against any peace moves. what immemorial, Act. delegates pronounced by The main specific objective of one of the best oratorical expres- of the working men and women of He was backed by such reactionary bosses as Big Bill Hutchethe constant reactionary maneuvers sions of common sense they hac America, the labor movement has son and John P. Frey. had a miraculous growth in three against the New Deal has been ever heard. With due credit to Daniel J. Tobin, head of the powerful short years. Any unselfish and unwhat an of of or mutilation the destruction analysis Starting by biased must Teamsters' admit this fact. person union, he made a valiant fight for peace, but the the Labor Act. This is because the he stated had been unfortunately The greatness of the man Lewis cards were stacked Labor Act, by assuring to the trade named the capitalistic system he from William against him by the die-harunions legal defenses against the stated that our political, social anc came to the fore this week when Green down to the humblest reactionary delegate. g methods industrial fundamentals are sound he offered to resijpi as chairman traditional Those of whoJcnow us I. something about the working of the of Big Business, is appraised in the But the machine is out of ad of the C. 0. to bring peace in the nacommand for A. F. L conventions were able to guess what would happen of the Street not only as the most potent justment. It is not hitting on al struggle New Deal political attack against cylinders because in some the mix- tions organized labor. from the time the Departmental parleys were held prior to the big capitals continued exploitation ture is too rich. In others it is too rowI am willing to resign tomor- main show. or any day thereafter as chair. of the national economy, hut also weak. The convention opened with a furious attack by Green man of the Committee for IndusPresi to tribute as the most expensive New Deal Paying glowing trial Green Mr. if Organization against the C. 1. O., the largest portion of the American labor measure from the standpoint of dent Roosevelt he extolled the will as pres- movement, and against the administration of the Wagner Labor resign Big Business profits. For Big Presidents program as an equali- ident simultaneously of the American Federation Relations Business pays off on margin be- zation of the mixture. I praise and Act, most outstanding of the Federal governments tween its selling prices and its endorse the courage with which of Labor, Lewis said. laws. labor be then It may possible for the labor costs, and a decent wage won President Roosevelt has declared Green's speech was in contradiction to resolutions various remaining leaders of the A. F. L. by union organization naturally that the economic conditions of the and C. I. conclude to the 0. a peace unions put before the convention demanding peace and unity reduces that margin as compared South constitute our No. 1 Eco pact, in which event the contribu- with the C. I. O. nomic problem, he declared. with the take under the wage scales of open-sho- p Having thus thrown down the tion made by Mr. Green and myself Greens accusations that C. I. O. chairman, John L. Lewis, conditions. Since Wall Streets nose gauntlet he proceeded from there would be of some value. If the A. F L. was wants and attempting to destroy the labor convention to communistic, accept always follows the money, it has on, amid the constantly mounting this imI will suggestion, unions was applauded by the die-har- d found the scent hottest on the trail applause of the delegates, to wade arrange and ossified internafileto mediately my of the Wagner Labor Act. resignation tional union representatives who control this convention from ruthlessly through the outworn with the C. I. O. Thus far, Big Business has bat- policies and prejudices of the A to Z Rank and File Pays tered its snout against a stone Southland and the nation. There It was in line with an equally heated attack on the C. I. O. The hymn of hate sung at the wall in its direct efforts to under- is a great battle now going on in A. L. F. convention in Houston the and National Labor Relations Board in the report of the mine the improved wage scales won this country between conservatives me makes Lewis sad, continued, 1937. other On labor a the and the liberals. I am liberal executive council, and the actions of Frey s metal trades departby during The conservative philosophy can not because of the scurrilous ment and Hutchesons hand, a dangerous flanking movebuilding trades department. ment has gained headway against be summed up as that of getting epithets directed ' at me, but beIn the of official cause whole the incident spite keynote, the demand of the A. F. L brings the Wagner Act. all the wealth you can and keeping further confusion and file and felt rank the was flankgreater at The partial success of that convention through resolutions for it. Then, when multitudes of people into the labor movement. of New Deal and progressive policies.. of the ing movement which still can be become destitute and hungry, cry strife labor, unity support The men and the women who checked by unitel opposition is foe to the' government to call out the and The Hotel Restaurant International Alliance result of a new strategy by the troops and force them into sub- really pay the price are not at the and Bartenders International Employes Houston convention. League of America, 200,000 The failure mission. Street string-pullerfederGreen on page 4) Mr. and head-on Obviously, (Continued attacks of the previous Liberal View ation leaders on are misinformed Tom law -labor the The liberal point of view is that some by against subjects and have doubtless Girdler, Ernie no class can be secure unless all been led LABOR ON ITS (Heil-Hit-leastray in their judgments. r) (Tear-Gaare secure and none can be pros Weir, Henry The whole situation Political Outlook emphasizes Ford and their respective go- perous without that prosperity FORWARD MARCH men made it . being general. I accept the indict- - what Heywood Broun told Presirillas and strong-ardent Roosevelt i recently, namely, quite clear that tactics of this sort ment and the task presented by the Utah and U. S. SWOC SIGNS UP FIRM commission were merely solidifying popular President with respect to the that a presidential IN fac-- ; should be to ALAMEDA, CALIF. a make From appointed ConseCompiled South. We do constitute the first Reports support for labors rights., be-- : tional on the conflict report of , Observers master minds groped economic, problem of the whole na- tween labor quently, the A and industry in AmerALAMEDA, Calif. (UNS) for ways and means to manufac- tion and it is our problem. ica. sole contract the with bargaining ture a public demand for emasBefore 1860, we had black There is . a scriptural injunc- PACIFIC PROPHECIES Boyle Manufacturing has been culation of the law. chattel slavery. Since then we have signed here by the Steel Workers Chorus The had white economic slavery and tion, Lewis added, something to Several Eastern columnists, with Organizing Committee. Negotiated These ways and means have conditions under the last have often the effect, Remove the mote from eye before delving too customary poetic license, predicted by SWOC Field Director William taken numerous forms, and the j been worse than the first. The thine own into thine neighbors pp- that the strongly New Deal Sen- Dalrymple, John Despol, CIO repdeeply Big Business press (remember the Mason and Dixon line has been a tic. ator Homer T. Bone of the State of resentative and a committee of ? cry for freedom ) has played a Chinese wall against the growth of on (Continued would encounter great workers from the plant, the conpage 2) Washington which our section, leading role. Newspapers, his knock down and tract provides for a minimum pay in difficulty have built up a profitable circulabusiFrequently, employers and does out not pay decent wages and drag fight for renomination. rate of C2c an hour, maintenance tion on a reputation for impartial- ness men have declared that the The was not men of present wage rates and time and circumstance maintain decent conditions has a ity and objectivity in news treat- Wage and Hour bill, establishing in to tioned the the de Governor chopress reports East a half for overtime. exist, minimum wages and maximum right ment, have enthusiastically ,, Other terms include preferential the but Senator Great When dared. of Divide, adis an. rused the refrain that everyone industry hours, would be the ruin of the weeks-vacatimits that the Wagner Act is biased South. My reply to them has been unionized, we can be sure that this Bone polled 30,000 more votes than hiring, seniority rights, one a with candisenatorial is all the case the of other and by the good old pay, spreading and unjust to management and must to inquire where high wages and be amended. never mentioning, better conditions of labor prevailed. American methods of democracy. dates on both the Democratic and work clause and machinery for of course, the numerous Supreme The answer has always been, For this reason, every state job Republican tickets. He defeated his handling grievances. Foremen are conin Court decisions upholding the the North. Then I asked, and every state contract is union- - Democratic opponent four to one forbidden from doing production Labor of are our great industries ized. Furthermore, while we must and got three times as many votes work. Where Board, pro stitutionality The contract was negotiated folas his Republican rival, Ewing D. cedure; and always overlooking, of located? and the answer could 'give the first preference to y a strike. The men Colvin. our own from lowing Iterial those state, that the Girdlers,. Weirs, only be in the North. to returned work from outside are pending the reSo I toll them, high wages are.suPPed Fords and Jimmy Rands who have given of sumption negotiations. been penalized by the Board, are the best investment that a com- - preference as they bear the union G. O. P. AID SOCIETIES bias and munity or an industry can make. label or are-- made under union ARE AGAIN IN ACTION notorious for anti-labAMERICAN CAN SIGNS AGAINST THE NEW DEAL violence in attempting to suppress It is the best investment the South conditions. PACTS COVERING 2000 GovThis the program works, labor organization. can make. Abraham Lincoln issued All the ernor of declared. Republican reactionary proudly the Right These valiant efforts of his emancipation proclamation. I The AmerCHICAGO (UNS) kept press in support of big declare that the Fair Labor Stand- during' the depression, Louisiana aid societies, some with warmed ican Can more aliases has down-tow- n over than Company, largest can $50,000,000 readily recognizable, and the ards Act, the money wage and in gained in firm the New the action 160 in industries. We new are country, have manufacturing again against ing patrons have been made easier hour law, is the second emancipacontracts the with has Steel exert themselves new Deal. more than signed mumbo-jumbo They firms, and tion proclamation. creating by the fantastic Workers new Committee, Organizing 30,000 propagandists, jobs. through professional manufactured scare red Labor Union synthetic d CIO, covering three of its plants in and Back Railroad Strike usually From this basis, the Governor by Congressman Martin (Loaded) convention national The specialChicago and Joliet, 111., employing by rising vote, advertising Dies investigating launched into a recital of specific authorized transmission 2000. 1936. mesabout In as in as of a comists, laboriously committee. The antics of this incidents in language that the dele21 to asked to now fellow to the railroad provision of the letters Outstanding unions, have sage ridiculous patriots as mittee, they are, gates, almost entirely veterans in which to is aim grant the SWOC agreements, help, they admit their clearly been designed to nourish collective bargaining, could cheer as convening in Washington against much sole mesof 15 as cut. a cent the secure This anti-labbargaining fights, is the stipwage spread the per prejudices which a recital of their working exallotulation as President misinformation concerning wages. The Green, generous would be required as a wedge to periences. sage, signed by no reduction in to the the from ments railroad extended workers funds of Republiguarantee pacts moveWe had a railroad strike down split the popular progressive wiil ment. And, finally, Wall Streets here the governor said, Things of the nation the full support of cans permit in their several wages, but provide for an increasea million the members of avenues of endeavor. Each time if conditions permit, thus laying exercise in the old technique of were not good at all. I got the the five L. A. in a event of the of F. their divide and rule has been aided responsible parties on both sides pfqspecti express confidence floor beneath which pay cannot inin ANY reduction strike that against they can depend upon the fall, but allowing room for an and abetted by allies within the into a room. I locked the door and crease. labor movement itself, i. e., by informed them that when, and only wages. press. Fraternal delegates from the Editor Frank E. Gannetts Nathose reactionary labor leaders when, they had reached a settlewho have been trying to undermine ment, they could come out. It took British Trade Union Congress, tional Committee to Uphold the LAUNDRY UNION SIGNS labors support for its own Magna them sixteen hours of hot dogs and Joseph Jones, president of the Constitution, by asserting that FIRST NEW YORK PACT Charter. soft drinks to make up their minds. Miners Federation of Great Brit- President' Roosevelt is a dictator, The first NEW YORK (UNS) The partial success of these But they did and the railroad has ain; and J. W. Stephenson, sec- is being crowded out of first place launhand in the Steam-fittercontract s Rebellion. This union of the Plumbers and maneuvers has been naturally en- been peaceful, prosperous and a retary by the Womens week this was a of wife the signed and headed of Great Britain dry industry up by outfit, couraging to the Street. It has led service to the state ever since. on 2) page on from (Continued 3) page on which (Continued No business or industry pge 2) (Continued page 3) or ds union-bustin- semi-starvati- on s. 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