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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DECEMBER 30, 1938 Page 6 material, relevant and makes sense And before we close our lesson on the subversive and tactics of certain elements in our nation, let us give the pupils one more tip.. A new drive is already organized and is about to swing into action. The new drive is directed not to destroy the Wagner Law, but to amend it. If they succeed in amending the law, they will then have it printed on Kleenex paper. It will then go down the drain pipe more easily with other disposable tissues. JUST A FEW REPAIRS ON TIIE WAGNER ACT tional field organized for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, A. F. L., and Jerome Davis and Mary Foley Grossman, president and vice president respectively of the American Federation of Teachers, A. F. L. The roster of speakers is not yet complete, Mr. Whitney said, and it is expected that many more officials, drawn from both of labors organizations, will be present at the Washington rally. Meanwhile, the sponsoring committee for the Congress has been apprised that the following inter national unions will have represen tatives at the sessions: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Fed eration of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians, National International Maritime union, Wood Workers of America, Ameri can Communications Association, State, County, and Municipal Workers of America, United Can nery, Agricultural, and Packing House Workers, and Fur Workers union. The list will be considerably larger, it was said, when the Congress will formally begin. From over the country, the Congress offices at 268 Fourth avenue, New York City, have received notices of the election of one or more delegates to Washington representing so far more than 150 locals, district councils, central labor unions, and industrial union UTAH SHOULD SET UP FUND TO ADVERTISE UNHESITATING ENFORCEMENT OF WAGE-HOU- R LAW WASHINGTON TRAVELERS SEE NEED FOR Unhesitating (Continued from page 1) Wage-Hothe of enforcement EXPLOITING SCENIC The the band under discussion. WONDERS TO DRAW Law will be the watchword of the National Association of Manufac MORE TOURISTS Administration, Arthur L. Fletchturers is one. The Chamber of in er, assistant administrator Commerce is another. The Ameriin an Utah needs of pledged enforcement, adequate appro charge can Newspaper Publishers' Asso a speech prepared here for delivery priation to properly advertise its ciation is a third. scenic attractions, in the opinion before the National Consumers Perhaps weve got our orders who have visited thi3 of travelers League. mixed and we ought to assign the and who have declared tha At the same time he asserted state, emi to first newspaper publishers the here founc excels that that scenery investigation of claims made pence. Certainly they were much LABOR ON ITS in most sections of the world. who oppose the by employers the most persistent and nefarious The should be Wage-Houshowed that their law appropriation MARCH in their plot to evade and destroy FORWARD made is to discredit the was it the chief by legislature, object point an American law. It is painful to ed of because the into out, it before Act expenditure got operation. record that the newspapers by andl from page 5) Blown-U- p (Continued Claims visitors benefits the money by large openly violated the Wagner unclcr way according to an an and therefore We heard that 30,000 tobacco law themselves, and advised all and nouncement by Industrial Commis people generally to the investment of had been barred from stemmers bring sundry to do likewise. They insist- - sioncr Frjecja g. Miller. The sur-e- d visitors here shouldmoney be made the work Act, Fletcher said. by by that the law would never stand wiU cover the manufacture of the people we found that On legis generally through investigating up in the Supreme Court. In fact, lea'ther fabTic and knit gloves, and Iative action. d these lost who those woefully their chief argument against the material wjn be obtained from em note is task It the to that arduous this at interesting job3 law was that it would not meet the and interviews total value the tourist trade in of amounted to only 10 per ployers records actually favor of the Nine Old Gentlemen. with s. The commis- the United States will exceed four number. cent that of be The law was tad, they said, will use.the information thus billion five hundred million dol sioner other things, the tobacAmong cause the Supreme Court was sure gathered to enable her to determine to Of estimates. at that figarrived had lars, according co people to dislike it. whether the minimum wage and this amount, it is estimated that workers on all the ure by including home-wor- k A Shocking Decision laws should be applied Utah will receive approximately But the flue-curtobacco. d It must have been a severe shock to tbe giove industry, twenty-fiv- e million dollars. Those tobacco, grown mostly in to the very free press when the who have studied the situation de North and South Carolina, conSupreme Court upheld the Wagner clare that with proper promotion, veniently end3 its season at the end Law on every count. The decision i3 not unreasonable it to expect of October. hit them like the Roosevelt landthat Utahs tourist business can is Every year at that time thereand slide hit the Literary Digest straw The Interna be developed into the states largINDIANAPOLIS be handled to tobacco more no vote, or dont you remember the tional Typographical Union an est industry, with estimates of therefore virtually no more work. nounced here its membership hat value running to as high as one Literary Digest any more? This year the situation was blamed More in sorrow than in anger, defeated in a referendum vote a hundred million dollars the Fair Labor Standards Act on annually, CONSUMER NOTES (Wage-Houthe opponents of the Wagner Law proposal that local unions sign after a ten-yeof aggresr period Law). made a quick shift in tactics. The contracts for a maximum sive advertising promotion. Violations Wilful week. argument was no longer that the At the present time, 35 states of ANOTHER MILESTONE OF The operator of a bagging mill The law w'as unconstitutional. By defeating the proposal the the Union have made advertising CONSUMER PROTECTION at Charleston, S. C., complained new flaw that they discovered was union reserved the right to limit to attract tourists appropriations that he had to let all his workers that it bred violence. This was its members work to five days a and industries. ever at- go. He manufactured bagging for job Biggest obviously a serious fault of the week. It also voted to amenc The Federal government has tempted has just been launched by cotton bales. But the ginning sealaw. It seems that those who want its laws which forbid renewal of found that the tourist dollar is dis- ;he Radio and Periodical division son is over in November. He prob-abl- y ed to break the law hired armed present bonus scales. tributed as follows: of the Federal Trade commission, had no demand for bagging. bands of thugs, bribed police an4 It defeated a proposal requirRetail merchandise, 28 cents; writes the Consumers Guide. of lumber mills shut Scores sheriffs and proceeded to combat ing working pensioners to pay restaurants and consumers '21 to protect down, or wrote us and their ConActing the organization of their workers 2 per cent pension and mortuary hotels and tourist cafes, 17 cents; adveand false cents; against misleading camps, gressmen that they were shutting with guns, poison gas and all the assessment on monthly earnings automobile e competi-;ivto halt and unfair But the editor of the Southaccessories, down. gasoline implements of war. of more than $30. Present law and oil, 12 cents; confectionaries, rtingmethods, the division will read ern Lumberman, an outspoken opIt. takes a well trained mind to requires payment on earnings 5 cents; incidentals, 19 cents. he thousands of newspaper, peri- ponent of the law, surveyed the recognize that a law must be given over $60. tourist travel Fortunately, proodical, and radio ads now pouring field and honestly reported in his up because a band of cutthroats The union also voted to change vides one of the finest means we into the offices of the F. T. C. publication that all the mills were have conspired to break it. It would the inauguration of elective offi- have for this redistribution of new 250 will check about daily They operating and that the industry never occur to anyone, of course, cers from Sept. 1 to July 15, ef- money the selected on was encountering no difficulties in west. and through newspapers weekly to put these outlaws in the hoose fective in 1942; to hold annual The tourist dollar is a restless a basis, in addition complying with the law. gow. conventions the Saturday pre- dqllar. It is forever changing o representative 400 over Can Take Court Action magazines and periodiin hands, Now, the Wagner Law is a cun ceding the third Monday its eternal from round the is no intention Fletcher making There cals, ranging ous one. It doe:3 not grant any August, except when the conven- from merchant to individuals who An earner most the to of wage expensive. said, rights to workers that they did not tion is held in Colorado Springs, and back to merchant, with a con- average of three copies of each of may havepillorying unwittingly violated the have before. It does not say, for Colo. It would convene there the stant stream law. will be its examined into hese way publications provisions of the Wage-Hoinstance, that a boss must hire Saturday preceding the second tax channels. finding about hesitate not the will But we year. during union men only and pay them Monday in September. . The appropriation by the state one of Americas 617 radio instituting court action if our inEvery union wages and employ them for of $100,000 for the next year to stations will send in its local adver- vestigation discloses that the viono more than union hours. It does C. I. O. WINS EASILY advertise Utahs scenic tising programs for a property period lation was wilful, no matter what not even say that a boss must sign IN ARMOUR POLL resources to the world should be as our times a year for examination the offending employer may do in a contract with a union. All that successful as promotion efforts his jy the commission. All the national the way of making amends to fuvic-pl- e the law says is that working peo- a used jyIo. In J0SEPH big will the in by this network for gT or private industry. advertising programs promises employes have a right to form a union or t won by the C. I. 0. Pack-joi- n connection, the efforts made in the come in weekly for checking. Even ture, he said. wag one thats already formed and j Workers Organizing past by individual chambers of ;he commercial announcements on He reminded his listeners that the boss mustnt force them or m- when Local 767 commerce and other civic boards electrical transcriptions must be underpaid workers or groups of unhere Yet timidate them not to join. All derpaid workers can institute acswept Up practically all the vote3 are to be commended, and such reviewed by the commission. . bosses the law as the simple is, Labor Board eIection efforts should be enlarged upon. radio advertising is checked after tion in any court of competent jurt couldnt understand that they have t Armour & Co. Finai results In. addition to this, however, Utah the broadcast takes place unless isdiction and recover, not only unno more right to keep their work- - Lhowed 473 for the C. I. 0. local as a state should tell the story of otherwise requested by the adver- paid wages, but an amount equal to ers out of a union than the work- - and 1Q for the company union. its scenic attractions. Money ju- tiser. unpaid wages. ers have to keep them out of an of the A F L to consumer diciously expended in this cause the Protection of Home Work Elimination Effortg a club or a church. distribution of will bring more people to the state against false advertising of foods, eiection tke asserted that one of the by Fletcher s They therefore started firing work- - leaf,etg am and with them will come increased drugs, cosmetics, and healing de- most important effects of the law the workers, who did join a union and even to them to stay away from circulation of new money, which vices was specifically given to the will be the elimination of home ,j had them slugged and shot for the n failed 'ederal Trade commission by the work. Manufacturers will find it dismaily, union circulates to all business and stimoffense. ulates trade generally. Wheeler-Le- a amendment to the easier to provide workers with a Jail Is Too Good For Them By the adoption of such a pro- Federal Trade Commission Act factory where they will work more It is too bad that these And when they go to gram, Utah should draw a larger passed at the last session of Con- efficiently. bullies were not sent to the percentage of American tourists gress. The same amendment gave a factory the State and Federal and should keep them here fer a the commission power to prevent governments can regulate working pen as they so richly deserved longer period. business practices injurious to con- conditions, sanitation and hours in However, the Wagner Law providOur present revenue from this sumers as well as those damaging the interest of public health as well ed one penalty that worked almost source should be increased many-fol- to competitors. In past years the as the welfare of the workers, he as well as prison. It imposed The undertaking will require commission has been able to clamp added. fines and forced the rehiring of thorough and careful planning to down on false or misleading adverHe cited the instance of a mandischarged workers with back pay effect the proper coordination and tising only when it was an unfair ufacturer, who gave out tobacco in full, and it was most distressing. correlation of all. groups, but it method of competition. The subversive elements were hit bags to string. Reasonably speedy seems logical that the state govwhere it hurt most, right in the Though the biggest, this division workers had difficulty in making ernment should lead the way in isnt the only Modeled after the for the five cents an hour, he said. If pocketbook. These penalties were imposed by I measures defeated in California this promotion. commission. Very often individual they persist in giving out home the agency created to administer and Washington in the last elec consumers or business concerns file work we are going to see that it is the Wagner Law. This agency is tbn, the ordinance hedges the SPEAKERS AT complaints with the commission at a rate which workers can make called the National Labor Relations right to picket with so many re against ads which they think false at least 25 cents an hour, Fletcher strictions in 11 long, wordy sec- NATIONNAL and misleading, and ask that the declared. Board. When the vicious and ads be investigated. elements discovered that tions, as to practically outlaw it. LABOR RALLY Heavy aluminum, steel, and iron, they could not wipe out the WagCHOOSING YOUR are best for long slow oven cookner Law itself they decided to de- CIGARETTE PAPER POTS AND PANS it. the enforces that ing. NEW YORK A. F. Whitney, stroy agency The Ecusta president of the Brotherhood WASHINGTON For baking cake and muffins, The latest drive has therefore been of You can and all in pots directed towards discrediting this Paper Corporation has begun con- Railroad buy experts pans say you should use tin or Trainmen, announced struction of a $3,000,000 cigarand weights, but a aluminum containers. Glass rates sizes, Board and tying it up in snarls. shapes, A. ;hat L. leaders of F. topflight ette paper mill near Brevard, North and C. I. O. unions have accepted good general rule to follow is to second while enamel is the last Dumb Labor Opposition and distance a short choose light utensils for quick choice. Carolina, just It is unfortunate that certain laThe invitations to speak at the Labor cooking, heavier ones for the longer National Forest. For cooking cream puffs and fromPisgah bor people unwittingly assist in construction of the which has 'tally in the Ralto theater in processes, advises the Consumers baking powder biscuits, alumimill, drive. this It would take us far behind it several years of intensive Washington, D. C., on Friday even- Guide. num baking sheets have been found afield to explain how this curious ing, January 6, which will open the research and study, is three-daon the top of most satisfactory. If you want an For laboratory quick boiling y state of affairs happened to come proceedings of the Amer- the stove, choose a fast heating evenly browned product, use sheets to have a marked effect . , about. Suffice it to state that it is expected ican Congress for Peace and De- pan, such as one of enamel or minus sides. Kitchen researchers on the present French monopoly of due to the fight between the C. 1. mocracy. paper making. pressed aluminum of medium thick- have found that sides act as a bafO. and the A. F. L. and that we cigarette Speaking at the meeting, over ness which will not dent. fle to the heat, cause the bottom think it is plenty dumb on the part Just the Wife Would Be Enough which Mr. Whitney will preside, inFor oven roasting, select a of the cookies or biscuits to brown of labor to play right into the The happiest man in the world is clude to date, Richard Franken-stee- n, roaster with a smooth interior sur- much more rapidly than the top. hands of their enemies with at- said to reside in one of the Ozark international vice president, face and a rack to hold the meat. Tin is not considered a good buy in tacks on the Labor Board. How- counties in Missouri. He has six United Automobile Workers of With the exception of veal, most the long run. It blackens easily ever, since we also think that the fiddles, 10 children, 13 hounds, a America. C. I. O.; Joseph Breslaw, meat roasts have been found to and heats inefficiently. entire C. I. O.-F. L, fracas is deaf and dumb wife and a moon- international vice president. Inter- cook best in uncovered pans. our opinoin may be shine still that has never been national Ladies Garment Workers Enamel and thin aluminum make There is no reward for worry; plenty dumb, on the ignored ground that it is spotted by the government. union; B. F. McLaurin, interna- - good roasters for quick cooking. there is much reward for rest. home-worker- I ur rs low-pai- ed flue-cure- ar 48-ho- ur ad-readi- ng pub-icatio- ns ur 15-d- sabo-associatio- n, ap-er- 1 d. ad-watc- - 1 . A. ay |