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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT Labors LAKE CITY, UTAH, OCTOBER 28, 1938 Page 5 Signor Gino Olivetti, chairman of great mass production industries the Italian Society for Industrial! LABOR ON ITS steel, automobiles, rubber, glass, alio government Management, League Is Active FORWARD MARCH manufacture, needle electrical from page 3) talked on Employee trolled, trades and He cites the textiles. In Campaign Chairman John D. M. I crity as a Responsibility of the in improvement wages and hours (Continued from page 4) Hamilton of the Republican Na-- 1 State." These are thorough-goin- g millions for C. of I. 0. workers." tional Committee, contended that Fascists. But Walter Polakov, a cal Industrial Union 55, which (Continued from page 2) called a strike at the companys by the Administra-- 1 distinguished engineer and member means of safeguarding state labor name-callin- g Middletown, Ohio, factory after the INSURANCE WORKERS had tion caused em business Ad-and of the American Society for legislation enacted during Demorefused to negotiate a col- WIN JOHN HANCOCK vancement of Management, was in- company ployment to slump. cratic administrations. POLL 1JV 100 MAJORITY bargaining agreement. formed that his paper of Labors lective The L a b o r ' 8 Unsuccessful attempts had been Role in Management" would not made BOSTON (UNS) The C. I. 0. League endorsed the Democratic by the union to negotiate fit with the program of the Con- - with the candidates several weeks ago. industrial insurance agents union over of a period company gress." Another eminent American 16 months, starting June 1, 1937. won its second major labor board e INDIANA LEAGUE CHEERS' engineer who volunteered to Close to 1000 workers responded election victory when agents of the I cuss of Labor The U. S. Chamber of Commerce THIRD TERM PROPOSAL Displacement to the strike call, shutting the fac- John Hancock Mutual Life Insuracted as host to the International as a Result of Scientific tory up tight. The union later sent ance company in the greater Bosan identical response, (FP)-LaINDIANAPOLIS bora Congress held recent-- 1 I ment" had maintenance men into the plant to ton area chose the C. I. O. affiliate anti-Nethe The Deal bias of G. Dr. ly has inVVashington. Seebauer, concluded by a margin of close to 100. League keep the furnaces running. Local 41 of the United Office & its third state convention with the director of the Reichkuratorium for Congress was attributed to the C. I. 0. members are urged to number of delegates doubled over Wirtschuftlichkeit, a Hitlerian or- - j American Society of Mechanical write to the P. Lorillard Co., 119 Professional Workers, the union inlast year. More than 500 attended, ganization, discussed Social As- - I Engineers and the American Man-pect- W. 40th street, New York City, volved, gained 324 votes in the poll, of Scientific Management. agement Association. The former and tell the firm of labors representing 90 Indiana local support conducted by the Massachusetts is closely connected with the utility for the strikers. unions including 25 A. F. L. locals State Labor Relations Board. Opand 15 locals of the railroad broth torrid California gubernatorial industry and controlled by execu position votes amounted to only 235. corporations, most of CHICAGO PAPER PRAISES erhoods. race last week with an endorse- larP The delegates cheered a sugges ment of reactionary Republican en- - them bitterly opposed to the C. I. O., RAPS tion made by E. L. Oliver, execu Governor Frank Merriam. velt administration. The program NEGRO CONGRESS HITS to the hilt with such tive vice president of the nations CHICAGO (UNS) Echoes of DISCRIMINATION; AIDS Culbert Olson, the Democratic was D. Fuller, league, that it might be necessary nominee, who has the support 0f reactionaries as Walter publish-calleBishop Luceys recent article prais- UNION, POLITICAL FIGHT d that the firm of President for President Roosevelt to seek a practically all of organized labor, the C. I. 0. which was printed ing the Saturday Evening Post; W. in the Commonweal, third term to prevent liberal legisGreen the chief labor faker BALTIMORE (UNS) Five hunleading Catholation from being wiped from the in the United States" in a letter J. Cfcmeron, Ford Motor Executive lic weekly, have reached the Chi- dred delegates and visitors at the statute books. mailed to the A. F. L. chief at who broadcasts tirades against the cago press which with one excep- eastern regional conference of the New Deal, etc The great business tion is not A convention highlight was the Washington exactly friendly to labor. National Negro Congress heard e"cia The letter continued: The ihaef speech of Ilassil E. Schenck, presi exception is the Chicago Harold L. Ickes, U. S. Secretary of w dent of the Indiana Farm Bureau whose Those of us who have spent our I EEC liberal- the Interior, promise New Deal Times, the Federal Trade ism stands out comparative belike a Federation, who promised that or years fighting for the cause of the tlon- lighthouse support in solving negro social and Labor National the Commission, would in and labor farmers side workers economic problems, and at the News. Tribune of organized the and the cooperate ganized Five with organized labor in the fight the political field and have taken Relations Board were barred. were The Times carries an editorial same time urge negro citizens to no part in the C. I. 0. and A. F. L. of the chief business speakers based on Bishop Luceys article, in work and vote for progressive canfor liberal legislation. While certain interests are try- labor split, except to express the executives of corporations at war which it repeats his warnings didates. , with the government over charges The delegates cheered greetings ing to keep us apart with the help hope for an early peace and unity, of law violations. against the tactics of so often employed against the C. for the C. I. 0. presented in the of the metropolitan press, we will look with contempt upon this atThe ropes were let down, how- I. O. enewe on to the are aid for after all the unite, Says the Times editorially: name of John Brophy, national diyour part tempt Unblinded by prejudice, the rector. workers and the consumers of mies of labor in their desperate ef- ever, to William Allen White, enr Kansas, liberal Bishop recites the good that C. I. Ickes sharply attacked racial disAmerica, dependent on each other," forts to retain control of the gov-- I sading m futile at-now active Schenck said. has accomplished. He tells how crimination, both in jobs and in ed0. eminent of California as the forces I editor, just ' (Continued on page 6) it has added more new members to ucation and other social activities. democracy are about to restore LABOR AT THE We must grant to negro labor, it to the people. organized labors ranks than there BALLOT BOX were O. C. both I. skilled and unskilled the right before In view of the fact that I have I altogether IPAUMFR AltivIIbli WTCTTFd to sell manpower and thus secure been endorsed by practically every I started. He points to organization of the When the radio has blared its A. F. L. council and local union in TO CLAUD BARNES (Continued on page 6) last election bulletin it will be the state, I knov your action is worth the while of all thoughtful not generally supported by the A. Americans to look back over these F. L. membership." SERVICE COAL & FEED CO. months and try to trace the Greens letter to Teamsters ' C. REEVES, Manager FRIEND OF LABOR strength and direction of the cur- union organizer, endorsing Merrents that have swept us. in Mer said Governor riam, part: COAL FEEDS, SEEDS, and UNION-MINE- D A In this country, labors direct riam stands for the principles of farmer, who was victimized PHONE: J 24 West Forest St. participation in politics is a factor the American Federation of Labor I by Hoover Republican prosperity, BRIGHAM UTAH I CITY, T. Claud and to back two a Barnes, that goes only years principles wrote letter against the that seemed destined to wax rather of confiscation and destruction one of the G. 0. P. spellbinders in than to wane in importance. It is preached and practiced by the mis-- 1 Utah, and told some facts. Repub-leaderooted in labors conviction that of the C. I. 0. Mr. Olson I lican papers have refused to print unions miist make use of govern- has revealed an unholy alliance a copy of the communication, ment machinery if they are to that should command the attention I The letter to Mr. Barnes follows: LABOR HAS ENDORSED achieve their goals of of all true supporters of American- I listened in at your radio talk betterment for the workers. ism and democracy. He sounds a I condemning the New Deal. You The confusion brought into the warning to Democrats and Repub-- 1 dont seem to understand that we F. L. ani- icans alike that his position in I are living in a new world, a propicture by C. I. O.-mosities, jealousies and struggle public affairs is predicated upon I gressive world where the Old Ideas Congressman First Congressional District I for power, and by communist proptheories. of which you speak hav gone. The Officials of several A. F. L. world has no more use for them, aganda and the fear of communist propaganda should not be per- units were opposed to the Green I The old individual or Conservative mitted to blind us' to the primary move. C. J. Haggerty, president of idea of the Government serving he California State Federation of only the few select Gold Spoon significance of the Labors League drive and the A. Labor, and Charles Buzzell, secre- - class has no longer a place in F. L. activity it has stimulated. For of the A. F. L. Los Angeles Cen- - America, and in the last election fundamentally this is a movement tral Labor Council, wrote to Green the people proved that to be a fact Million which, if it continues, Will trans- asking him to withdraw his en-- by voting Twenty-Seve- n form an economic organization of dorsement of Merriam and telling I strong against it. labor into effective political organ- lim he had been misinformed about All this talk you old izations responsible to labor and to the California situation. The San are out about the New Francisco Building Trades Council, Deal putting closely related groups. with Communism linked being A. F . L., also demanded an ex-- 1 jg dirtiest kind of propaganda, CALLS BILL GREEN planation from Green. The council The people understand it all. You THE CHIEF LABOR has endorsed Olson. put out this same rot in the last FAKER IN THE U. S." Many are of the opinion that election and no one believed it. Green is an out and out tool of you spoke of farm William Green, president of the Wall Street political interests, who products. I was on the farm when A. F. L., the Charlie McCarthy" are doing their utmost to defeat Prosperity-Aroun- d candidates and those candi- - er Hoover was president. Oats for the reactionary Republican dictators of the A. F. L. executive dates who are supporting the New sold as iow a3 g cents, wheat 10 to council, has his foot in it again Deal program of President Roose- - 25 cents, chickens 15 cents each, when he poked himself into the velt. and no sale for cattle and hogs at all. Lots of farm products rotted in the fields, thousands of banks and the property of the closed ECONOMY MOTORS, Inc. farmers was beihg auctioned off daily. SALES no employThere was no credit, ' SERVICE ment, no nothing. A revolution plainly was brewing. No one knew PHONE 555 TOWING SERVICE BRIGHAM CITY what to do. Then Mr. Roosevelt took office under the most trying circumstances, after years of ReNo one could take the place of Abe Murdock and carry and corruption publican mis-rul- e -- on the work in behalf of Utahs livestock, metals and agrito that had reduced the country cultural done. He is recognized in Washhas as he interests bankruptcy and poverty, such as as defender a of the West, alert to every ington vigorous was never known before in history. a true friend of the farmer He himself has alopportunity. proved This great man has done and the man. laboring most the impossible in rehabilitatrs bill. He fought for He supported the ing the country and restoring the to workers bargain collectively through representatives right confidence where there was none. of their own choosing. He supported and worked for Social The Tea Pot Dome Scandal, the Security legislation. He is an advocate of and works for old Hoover Panic and the Hoover age pensions. Promises of prosperity around the As a New Dealer he assisted in the abolition of the sweat condemned the corner Republican shops and .child labor. He worked and voted for the railway party for all time with all progresretirement act. He is a supporter of an adequate public workers sive minded people. And when as a partial remedy for unemployment. works program you lose the confidence of the peowill He continue to fight for the masses of the people of back to more it gain ple it takes Utah. d than propagandists lecHe is a staunch supporter of President Roosevelt. radio over and through the turing the press. Ills Labor Record is 100 per cent. If you fellows had cooperated Labor Will Support Him 100 per cent. with the New Deal instead of hinbe New would Deal the dering it, Keep ABE MURDOCK in Congress. flying the Flag of Victory today." . (Paid political Adv.) But your Policy is Rule or Ruin. (Paid political adv.) W. H. 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