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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL Lewis States C. 1. 0. Position On Union Labor Peace o NEW Y?RK (UNS) The C I. O. has accepted the invitation without qualification and will discuss any suggestions for labor unity that may bemade at conferences with the A. F. L., but its unions will not let themselves be chopped to pieces as the price of unity, President John L. Lewis, of the C. I. O., declared in a speech before convention of the United Mine Worker, of America. , The great industrial organizations, comprising the C. I. O., do not propose to dissolve themselves and cut themselves up into a multitude of pieces as the Pres-iden- YOU CANT APPEASE BUSINESS (Continued from page 1) run with it and, if possible, run fast enough to get out in front and lead it. The warning of Solicitor General Jackson that they will be outdistanced by the Republicans in quid pro quo of becoming associat any such race has not deterred ed with the A F. L., he said. them. As the President's favorite Wont Swallow Poison and the man who stands to gain The C. I. O. unions, Lewis added, most by refuting Jackson's theory, will not swallow poison and go off Hopkins has dashed into the rail and die merely to please those ad- position. The President is lagging a few paces, but there is every indication that Hopkins has persuaded him to go along. Events The trend is obvious from an Post-electi- on amination of post-electio- ex- events. n After the failure of his purge camRoosevelt first refused to at paign, Inbow to political expediency. stead, he set about doing what he could to pin down his reforms, strengthen his Cabinet by the Hopkins and Murphy appointments, liberalize federal agencies by such nominations as that of Tom Amlie for the ICC, and refurbish the judiciary by replacing Judge Manton with a Republican and calling Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court. After Hopkins appointment as Secretary of Commerce and his business - must - have - confidence speech in Iowa, the direction sud denly changed. The President consented to a revamping of business taxes undistributed-profit- s, levand capital-stoc- k ies included in favor of a simplified corporation tax. While he turned thumbs down on any reduction in the sum total of revenue, he consented to consider proposals to raze the tax structure he had so laboriously constructed and to abandon his budget message re quest for new taxes to produce $400,000,000 a year additional rev enue. He also,' it appears, encouraged 'Murphy to revive the often repeated experiment of granting business at least partial immunity laws. from the anti-tru- st In another even more important but generally unappreciated gesture to business he instituted a resumption of peace negotiations between the A. F. L. and the C. I. O. (Continued on Page 6) A National Pants Shop The Only Exclusive Pants Shop in the Intermountain West We Carry a Full Line of Dress, and Work Pants Salt Lake 72 E. 2nd South 7 A Easter Greetings See Us For FISH Wide Variety Choice Quality Delivery Service City 70 Fish Market West 1st So. Was. 7116 ts 7, 1 939 Page cial convention here Tuesday afternoon and elected Roland J. Thomas of Detroit aa president, and George F. Addcs of Toledo as secretary treasurer, Thomas has been acting president since Homer Martin was ousted from the organization. More than 600 delegates from all parts of the United Statts attended the convention. Membership of the union was placed' at 371,000, only a few I thousand below the peak figure of 5?kt J?7 drive. bjs organiza Of this total all but 15,000 were represented here. Maintenance of the g membership at so high a figure was especially noted in the report to the convention of President Thomas, who contrasted it with the mere 30,000 in the union prior to its affiliation with the C. I. 0. g The membership increased by 39,000 from a year ago. dues-payin- upon an adversary. The day will come when patience will cease to be a virtue, and those who are now enjoying themselves in the A. F. L. in vile, lying attacks upon the C. I. O.s integrity and its policies and in harassing vocates and supporters of craft its existing organizations may well unionism who resent the fact that look forward to the day when they CUTTING RELIEF IS abor has organized through the will be fully occupied at home, be- CUTTING WAGES medium of industrial - union cause that day will come if peace and intends to continue its comes not. It is not by accident that there work of organization and the atis an attempt on a national scale tainment of its logical objectives. to reduce for relief America needs these unions in the NEWS AND COMMENT and WPA appropriations when unemployment is industry. on the increase. The C. I. O. leader struck back (Continued from page 4) This is a well laid plan of the National Manufacturers Associavigorously at enemies of the C. I. UTAH STATE C. I. 0. O. who have been trying to pin a CONVENTION OPENS tion and the United States Chamred label on ber of Commerce. 26 APRIL It will not avail for the eneIt is to the eternal glory of Presmies of labor, he said, to issue Utah State Council of the Con- ident Roosevelt that he refused to heir fulminations against the C. I. gress for Industrial Organizations stoop or bow to these fascist organO. on the ground that it is less re- will meet in annual convention at izations that seek to rule the govspectable or less virtuous or less Park City on Wednesday, April 26, ernment by inside manipulation. sanctimonious than the previously The convention will remain in ses- These organizations, and particu organized A. F. L. sion from day to day until all the I larly the chamber of commerce, are Raps work presented before the dele- - patterned after business organiza- For be it known that the man, gates is completed. More than 100 tions that operated in Prussia pre whoever he may be, on the street delegates will be in attendance. A. vious to the World war. American employers sent an comers, in the counting houses, in M. Petersen, state president, will the market places, or in the Con- preside over the sessions, reports emissary to Germany before the war to learn why laws were so faE. M. Royle. gress of the United States, who Secretary-Treasur' Officers reports will be received vorable to employers. They found makes the charge that the C. I. O. recommendations acted upon. that the bosses through their orand is an institution that is composed of Communists and The convention will also elect of- ganization ruled the government. dues-payin- phi-osop- hy mass-producti- on it Red-Baite- rs That is the plan of John Hamilton and the Republican party in their drive to put again into the White House another Hoover to shoot down War Veterans and starve honest workers and their families. No American should be foolish enough to condone relief or WPA cuts any more than he would reduction in his own pay. red-blood- ed WHERE UNCLE SAMS MONEY GOES After listening to an immense amount of chatter by public men of all parties concerning public men penditures, Thomas L. Stokes, a highly efficient young Washington newspaper man, decided to make a survey on his own account, and heres what he discovered: During the 12 months beginning July 1, next, the Roosevelt administration expects to spend $8,985,-000,00Thats certainly a lot of money. Where does it go? Well, Mr. Stokes found that only $865,000,000, or less than went to regular government departments. Not much chance to trim there. Then came $1,865,000,000 for national defense and veterans pensions, and $1,050,000,000 for interest on the public debt. Almost three billions to pay for old wars and to prepare for new conflicts! Even Senator Byrd wouldnt suggest a cut there. The agricultural program will take $694,000,000 (and the farmers insist thats not enough), and pub-- ( Continued on page 7) 0. one-tent- h, If we cannot become a people in which the practice of mutuality and cooperation is common, we cannot enter into the rewards of Francis Perkins. our destiny. er has a leadership responsive to Communist principles, that man is a knave, a liar and a poltroon. And that statement is just as broad as a bam door and just as high as a church steeple, so that it will take in anyone who may come within its scope. While emphasizing the sincere desire of the C. I. 0. for real labor unity, Lewis warned that if the A F. L. leaders reject unity and continue to harass the C. I. 0. unions the C. I. 0. may have to change its present attitude. If peace with the A. F. L. comes, well and good, he said Labor will be the beneficiary anc the country will have reason to rejoice. If Peace Fails If peace upon an honorable and reasonable basis fails to come from these conferences, then the C. I. 0. will change its policy. Its policy las been one that has been merely defensive in its attitude toward the A. F. L. The C. I. 0. did not start out to reorganize the organized. It started out to organize the unorgan zed. The C. I. 0. has not struck )ack from the foul blows delivered o it by the A. F. L. It has not organized unions to absorb existing unions of the A. F. L. But the A. F. L. now is organizing unions to absorb the unions in the C. I. 0. Even in our own industry the A. F. L. has chartered a puny little sickly group in the mining indus ;ry to try to destroy the United Mine Workers of America. Could Hurt Enemies Well, the C. I. 0. will not long tolerate that policy, because the C. 0. is capable of doing more than merely defending itself. The C. I. 0. is capable of inflicting injury -- ficers for the ensuing year. Park City unionists are making elaborate preparations for the entertainment of the delegates and visitors. Among the features will be the annual banquet and ball. LABOR PARLEYS POSTPONED " (Union News Service) The peace conferences between the C. I. 0. and the A. F. L. were indefinitely postponed Wednesday by agreement of the conferees. John L. Lewis said that the collective bargaining negotiations now in progress between the United Mine Workers and the Appalachian bituminous coal operators, and the hearings on the Wagner Labor Relations Act will necessitate the attention of the C. I. 0. leaders. The C. I. 0. is opposed to any of the proposed amendments to the Labor Act, while some of the top leaders of the A. F. L. favor changes in the law. Leaders of both organizations will appear before the Senate committee Tuesday. I. O. AUTO UNION SHOWS STRENGTH Previous to the World war the United States Chamber of Commerce made it plain to those seeking membership that it was the intention of the chamber to rule the United States. Many national administrations were under its thumb. The present national administration, to its credit, has refused to kowtow. Roosevelt told . When President employers he would cut down relief when they started putting men o work he told them just what they should have been told. Unfortunately, employers are not intending to put anyone to work. It is not in line with the dastardly plans of that American menace, John Hamilton, national chairman of the Republican party, to increase And it certainly is employment. not in harmony with the tunes his Wall Street masters sing. Misery and more misery. Unemployment and more unemployment. All resulting misery to be blamed on President Roosevelt. 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