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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. MARCH Page 2 Established 192) A MEMBER OF TUB This paper receires Union News Service, a G.I.O. affiliate. were II. Eugene Glenn superintendent of the Tribune-Telegra- an composing department, C. A. Laxman of the Typographies of Mr. Greg Union, and ory in the printing trades. Mr. Gregory died Friday at 1:1 p. m. in a Salt Lake City hospita of a heart ailment. He was bom in Salt Lake City September 5, 1872, and had lived here most of his life. He followed the printing trade in commercial and newspaper shop! second-clas- s matter March 28, 1930, at the post office Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Entered as at Subscription $1.50 per annum Advertising rates by request. Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at 23 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. Pubiiaher Jl. I. THOMPSON L. M. THOMPSON Office Manager We stand for what the Constitution stands fo- rdomestic tranquility, the establishment of justice, and the promotion of the general welfare. UTAH LABOR NEWS. ORGANIZED LABOR WINS IN BATTLES ON VICIOUS MEASURES (Continued from page 1) legislation made, either or otherwise, the Iron innocently solon their agent in the county Utah legislature. Fight in Idaho The fight in Idaho was the most dramatic. There, old guard Republicans in control of the legislature managed to put through a bill which outlawed strikes except when called by a majority of all employes in a plant and by a secret ballot. Strikes by craft units were forbidden under the measure. .Picketing was barred, except under Impossible restrictions. Labor got the ear of Governor C. A. Bottolfsen and induced him to veto the bill. The Governor declared the measure would inflame a large element of labor in our state. Reactionaries then tried to put through a substitute, almost equally bad, but Democrats in the Senate blocked action on it just before the legislature adjourned. Headed Off Bad Bill In South Dakota, a similar bill, which among other features would have banned interference by pick slid ets with strikebreakers, through the lower house, but was killed in the senate by anti-unio- n of the most menacing is a bill introduced in the South Carolina legis'ature to tax union dues and assessments 50 per cent. As a result of the fight by organized labor, defeat of the vicious bill is likely,' according to reliable information coming from the southern state legislative halls. To combat this big business effort to strangle labor unions, in several states bills were introduced to place an excise tax on chain-farm- s. monopoly-owne- d In the California legislature a bill i3 being considered to tax chain ownership of over three farms. Chain-owne- d farm tax bills in other states have made appearances. In Iowa, where more than 50 per cent of the farms have drifted away from independent farmers the chain-fartax has become a burning issue. Propaganda Magazines Several farm publications, owned by big business, are being circulated among the farmers in every state of the country. One of these is the Farm Journal, published and owned by the immensely rich Pew family of Pennsylvania. This family made its fortunes in oil and took over the Farm Journal and began filling Its vote. columns with propaganda against In these, as well as other states, the New Deal and labor organizato head labor has thus far managed off some of the worst laws. It tions. Now the Pew family has added has largely failed, however, in getthe Farmers Wife to its propting any good ones passed. This the aganda to been the due campaign. fact that has Joe Pew, the directing genius last election put into most state legislatures reactionary majorities. behind these publications, is not Labors efforts to put through only one of the angels of the Old in laws and little Guard Republican machine little wage-hou- r in stagwere acts Pennsylvania, contributing slaughtered Wagner gering sums to campaign funds, most states. but he is a vehement opponent of In Arkansas, a bill to establish labor unions and everything sugwomsweated minimum wages for en employes and maximum hours gestive of social reform. was sabotaged by amendments, Proposes to Divide He evidently believes that the passed by the senate, which exempted nearly all important indus- way to return reaction to power tries. in the United States is to drive a . large-size- d To Tax Union Dues wedge between the laws farmers and the industrial workOther dangerous anti-labhung fire in many legislatures. One ers, and is using his agricultural?) papers to bring about , m so-call- ed 41-to-- 21 or A AMERICAN LINEN SUPPLY COMPANY Cleanliness First! Cleanliness Last! Boost, Build and Support your State. Use American continuous towels and all kinds of linens they furnish. Support industries that support you. 33 Bast 6th South Was. 2484-8- 5 IT PAYS TO KEEP CLEAN Z7 m PAID FOR E. A. GREGORY er Funeral services for Ernest A. n and Gregory, age 60, a Lake Salt member of respected Typographical Union, were held Tuesday afternoon at 30 East Seventh South street, with Bishop Leo G. Thayne of the Ninth L. D. It the S. ward, officiating. Burial was in ever since a boy. For as apast proof was he employed years the City cemetery. The principal speakers at the reader on local daily newspapers served the loca Mr. well-know- 04 7. 1939 services LAST TRIBUTES fltaf) Uafcor iJletoa 1 Gregory one copy of the Farm Journal and its companion, the Farmers Wife, for ten years. The publishers hope to reimburse themselvc3 in part by receipts from advertisements at $3750 a page. Any additional loss they are willing to pocket in order that they may get their propaganda read by the Typographical Union in varioui anc important positions with credit to the glory of the cause of trade unionism in which he devoted much of his spare time. Surviving are his widow; three sons, George Arthur Gregory of Seattle, Ernest L. and J. W. Gregory of Salt Lake City; two daughters, Mrs. Adelaine Hunter of Salt Lake City and Mrs. Grace Wolf of farmer and his family. Boiler-plat- e Milwaukee. Story solicitor to the Pews instructions suggest that he first endeavor to LIFE-SPAget into the farmers home. If that is not possible, he is told to follow OF SILK the farmer into the field or the barn, or wherever he can talk to N him without interruption. The solicitor is directed to launch the conversation by expressing sympathy for the farmers problems. Then he is supposed to get over to the farmer certain arguments which have been carefully prepared for the solicitor by the sales organization. Labor Would Hamstring All these arguments lead up to just two propositions: (1' That the Federal government should labor pass a law regulating lines the somewhat unions, along of the vicious proposals which have been defeated in many state legislatures; and (2) that administration of relief for the idle should be returned to local authorities. If the solicitor can sell the farmer on those two propositions and then induce him to subscribe to the Farm Journal for 10 years, those who are back of this exceedingly clever and dangerous propaganda scheme believe the farmer and the members of his family may be counted on to support candidates for public office who will hamstring labor unions, cut the taxes of the rich, give the power trust and the chain-stor- e monopoly a free hand and, in general, wipe out the last vestige of the gains made under Roosevelts New Deal administration. A Dangerous Situation The situation is more dangerous than the average person may surmise. Trade unionists and independent farmers and independent merchants cant afford to laugh off a drive of this kind. The possible consequences are of the most serious character. It is still true that the economic interests of farmers and industrial workers are substantially identical. One group cannot obtain economic freedom if the other is enslaved. It is obvious they should pull to-- 1 UNDIES ICE WORKERS UNION CONTRACT WAS RENEWED , Officers of the United Ice and Refrigeration Workers local union No. 410, C. I. 0., and the management of the Utath Ice and Storage company Tuesday signed a collective bargaining agreement for employes, effective March 1, when the old contract expired. The new agreement is for the term of one year, reports A. M. Petersen, president of the Utah State Council of the C. I. O. The provisions of the agreement provide for seniority rights, an increase in wages and methods of settling disputes between the employes and the company. The employes of the company in Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo are affected by the new contract. The officers and members of local 410 are active in organized labor circles of Utah in participation on those things that will make for bettter economic and political conditions for the workers of Utah. A In the sale of WASHINGTON his products under the trade names of Supreme, Marvel, Marvo and Peerless, a preservative or mending powder for silk hosiery and lingerie, C. C. Johnson of Omaha, Nebraska, is alleged to have made representations to the effect that his preparation prevents runs and snags, rotting and fading in hosiery, that it strengthens the heels and toes, that the life of silk hosiery and lingerie is preserved due to the quality of the products, and that the public generally are saved approximately 50 per cent of silk hosiery and lingerie cost, according to a complaint issued by the Federal Trade Commission. The complaint charges that these representations are false and misleading in that the product will not accomplish the results claimed. Best Wishes to Labor CHAS. I. DOGGDAML Shoot Metal Vorhs Call Us For Estimates Wasatch 6116 338 Marion St. CALL ACME SHEET METAL WORKS Phone Hy. 8064 Estimates Given Stacks, Gutters and Sheet Metal Work J. E. TAUFER, Mgr. Friend of Labor 732 Green St., Salt Lake City Shortage According to a standard school book, In the year 1847-4- 8 potatoes formed the sole food of the Irish peasantry. A pupil thus transcribed it: In the year 1847, 48 potatoes formed the sole food of the Irish The Home of Best Values. Greetings to Labor HEMSTREET BROTHERS Household Specialties. South State St. 145 Your Credit Is Good Salt Lake City Phone Was. 5233 Anchor Lumber & Coal Co. 2550 South Main Hyland 4540 gether. The independent business man is in the same category with the worker and the farmer. He cannot exist unless the farmer and the worker are able to patronize him. Beware of Propaganda This expose of the character of the campaign being put on by the Pew publications should serve as a warning, and should cause organized labor everywhere to prepare to counteract it. that result Watch your step and beware of Not content with telling through the poisonous propaganda put up the columns of his propaganda by the enemies of labor, farmer publications to farmers that unions and independent business man. are among their most dangerous enemies, Pew is sending out an army of subscription solicitors to spread the same propaganda. There are hundreds of solicitors, Save on Utahs constantly traveling through the farm areas offering a subBest Railroad Coal. scription to the Farm Journal Of this sum solicitor the for $2. Mined by Utah That leaves 60 pockets $1.40. cents for the Pew interests. Miners That sum will not begin to buy the white paper required to print Furnace Lump $7.00 (DOAILn Utahs oldest and larco&t UNION Printinc Plant mmm NCO R PORATED Go mm on email MnGeirs 10-ye- ar Catering to local ana out-of-to- firms and e organizations who desire Paper and 100 Union Printing. Union-maO- 6.85 up Lump 10-ito 6.75 Stove, Dustless Slack 4.75 These are all delivery prices. 3-i- n. 3-i- Best Wishes to Utah Workers Goysor Hon Gold Kearns Bldg., Salt Lake City lining Oil-Treat- Go. Was. 6260 n. n. ed Dee Ilivo Goal Company 1456 So. 2nd West Hyland 3768 V 231-23- 5 "The Master Salesman Edison Stroot Phono Wasatch 1001 Salt Lako City, Utah |