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Show Page 6 UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT PROTESTS NAZI OPPRESSION OF MINORITIES in the United States, three times higher in Germany, and twice as high in Czechoslovakia. The report, which was submitted to the ILO Committee on Safety in Mines that met in Geneva last month to draft model safety regulations for the coal mining industry, warns that allowance must be made in interpreting these figures for difficulties arising from pos sible lack of comparability. Nevertheless, it found it clear that, compared with the manufacturing inis subject to dustries, a higher degree of hazard. Falls of rock or coal were the chief cause of fatal accidents in coal mines, the report reveals. In the United States they accounted for more than half the total of fatalities in 1935. Haulage accidents came next; then explosives, p and or coal-duexplo- W. P. A. WORKERS MAKE AND REPAIR CHRISTMAS TOYS ' (Continued from page 5) The persecution of the Catholic hierarchy and the followers of the Catholic religion in Germany is vicious, indefensible and shocking. We, living here in America, breathing the air of freedom, respecting the rights of all classes of people regardless of creed, color or nationality, cannot comprehend the savage instincts which motivate the action taken in Germany against the Jewish race. Barbarous Torture Here is presented to the world an exhibition of intolerance, racial hatred and human torture never before portrayed even by heartless barbarians during the darkest age. We protest these brutal iniquities perpetrated upon a helpless LAKE CITY, UTAH, DECEMBER , 16, 1938 ery and inhuman to the unem ployed. The statement follows: The C. I. O. Committee on Un employment calls upon all C. I. O. affiliates to make known their op position to the proposed cuts in the number of WPA jobs. Reports from all sections of the country indicate that cuts are rapidly being made. Some of the cuts are direct. Others are hidden under the device of failing to replace workers who leave the WPA rolls with others who are certified to be in (Continued from Fage 1) WPAs recreation division groups are making and repairing toys. Theater, art and music projects and the education division are sponsoring hundreds of Christmas gatherings and performances. Apart from these special sea need. sonal activities, the security wages Unwise Policy paid 3,000,000 WPA workers will AThe policy of cutting the WPA enable them to buy a few toys for at this time is most unwise. There their children in addition to the are at least 600,000 unemployed Christmas dinner. Wages due who are certified as eligible to workers immediately after Christ WPA and should have WPA jobs. mas will be paid before the holiThere are at least as many more days. Thousands of home relief re who, by all standards, should be so cipients and other needy persons, certified. moreover, will be warm in the sions. If these cuts go through and clothing produced by 200,000 womacciThe number of non-fatthe WPA rolls are seriously en in 5000 WPA sewing rooms. dents in coal mines, the report labor needs further extension and repairing is a shows, also exceeds number in duced during the coming winter the race. d activity with WPA. manufacturing industries. Thus, months, not only will great sufferWe call upon the men and wom- Toy libraries lend the refur- in accinon-fatmine coal 1935, ing be caused among the unem en of Labor in America with all bished articles children cherish to dents in eleven times were higher ployed but the current recovery motheir friends, to assist in the those who cannot have their own Japan, four times in the will be endangered by the reduchigher of bilization of the moral strength - in a number of states. Many toys United States, more than twice as tion of government expenditures the world in. opposition to the given at Easter. Preparation high in the Netherlands and almost too early in the recovery. The C. defensible and inhuman policy pur-- 1 Christmas toys begins in mid-sue- d twice as high in Germany. I. O. takes the position that the I by the German government. I summer. WPA as it now stands is inadeBecause the masses of the peohave WPAs C. I. O. URGES ALL UNIONS no cuts should be made I that quate, common our cherish fondly small boy TO OPPOSE WPA CUTS what iearne(i every no more unemployed until there are that prune boxes make IN NATION-WID- E heritage of religious freedom, lib-- 1 I DRIVE to the WPA and workers eligible erty and the protection of life and g00(j wagons and old roller skates private employment naturally reproperty, we can understand what pood sic00ters. They have made A natio- duces the rolls. WASHINGTON (UNS) mean these priceless blessings torom scrapg silhouetted horses and n-wide These cuts can be stopped if the campaign to stop WPA the common people in other na-- 1 d0gS hinged to move amusingly as cuts is C. I. unemployed and employed workers, the launched by I being tions throughout the world. they are dragged along the floor; O. following action of the Consti- under the leadership of the C. I. O., By contrast and comparison we shuffleboard sets and doll crib sets tutional Convention. Ralph Hetzel, make their opinion known to the know how the destruction of these complete with mattresses, sheets C. I. O. Unemployment Di- nation. Jr., vital principles affects the life and and pillows. on behalf of the C. I. O. The First Constitutional Convenrector, happiness of helpless minorities in Haggard dolls are washed behind Committee on of the Congress of Industrial tion Unemployment, and their broken called upon C. I. O. affilates to European countries. the ears, organization vigorously condemned Intensified Boycott Urged bisque noses replaced, by plastic join in opposition to the projected the cuts and established the princallI am in this mind, Having surgery, with plastic wood so well cuts. ciple that WPA rolls should not be Broken ing upon the men and women of that no scar is visible. The statement Committees reduced until there were no more Labor in a way I have never called trains, tnicks and steam shovels called the cuts - workers who were able and willing recovto dangerous Gerupon you before, to boycott come out like new, and where toys man goods and German service. are too badly broken to be reLet such action speak louder than paired the parts of several become wards. Refuse to buy German novel hybrids. goods or to use German service Projects in the western states until the persecution of Jewish provided employment for more people and the interference with than 5000 persons assisting Santa the exercise of the right of reli- Claus to the extent of 250,000 toys. 0 gious freedom in Germany are In southern California, where terminated and they are accorded for were toys being prepared their rights as human beings. distribution, 450 persons worked in WPA centers. In northern CaliCOMMITTEE MEETS fornia, 1000 women were on the FRIDAY NIGHT job. Including those who made toys The joint protest committee between regular duties in sewing against persecutions of minorities rooms, 3000 were estimated to will meet this (Friday) evening be engaged in the work in Coloat 8 oclock at 59 South State rado. Hobby club3 sponsored by street. the recreation division took over All persons interested in form- the work in Washington state. ' ing a permanent committee deThis Christmas WPAs horsesigned to prevent racial and re- back book carriers, most of them ligious injustices and attack perse- women, will carry reconditioned cution of minorities are invited to Christmas cards to remote mounattend. tain areas of the south and east, where many families have never A gentleman is one who keeps seen the conventional seosons his promises to those who cannot greetings. From small beginnings enforce them. in Kentucky, this means of spread. ing the Christmas cheer has been A adopted in other states where Seasons Greetings traveling libraries take reading material to the mountain people. coal-mini- fire-dam- ng st . al Toy-maki- re-Th- at ng year-aroun- al in-a- re to secure WPA jobs. C. I. O. officials immediately conveyed to the WPA administration the action of the convention in opposing these cuts. ELECTRICAL UNION WINS PACT ON WEST COAST FolLOS ANGELES (UNS) the at strike a lowing Fischer A. Robert the of plant Corporation at Glendale, largest manufacturer of electro - therapy equipment in the west, the firm signed a closed shop contract with the United Electric, Radio and Machine Workers, C. I. O. Terms of the agreement include a five-da- y week, eight-hou- r and seven vacation weeks a day, holidays with pay, time and a half for overtime and double time on Saturday afternoons. The strike was provoked by failure of the president of the company to sign the contract, negotiated after five weeks of conferring, at the time specified, November 16. When the workers, all members of the UERMW Local 1421, arrived at work and found that (Continued on page' 7) 14-min- - toy-make- re-cla- rs re-p- le d, at tfie 20,-00- jnrSt 5mmtp Corporation gjptftem (Extend Greetings To all our Loyal Customers and Friends We send CBest Wishes for JMerry Christmas and ' B & B COAL CO. BLUE BLAZE COAL LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH Union Mined Rail Hauled by Union Labor (Continued from page 5) Office report on Accident Risks in Coal Mines discloses that, in 1935, the latest year for which complete figures are available, coal mine fatalities were twenty times Buy the Coal That Satisfies It Stays Sold. Hot or Cold We Are Here to Serve You 3165 Lincoln Av. Phone 1516 higher in Japan, twelve times higher in India, seven times higher y a . . Happy and 'Prosperous New Year FIRST SECURITY BANK of UTAH National Association Branches at .Ogden, Park City, Bingham Magna Provo, Logan, Richmond . FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Salt Lake City Branches at Sugarhouse and Tooele FIRST SECURITY BANK of IDAHO 1 GREETINGS m $ a au a American Can Co. of Utah 2030 Lincoln Ave., Ogden, Utah Branches at Boise, Blackfoot, Emmett, Gooding, Hailey, Idaho Falls, Jerome, Montpelier, Mountain Home, Nampa, Payette, Pocatello, Preston, Shoshone. FIRST SECURITY TRUST CO. 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