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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL 14, 1939 Page 3 f Your Buoineooeo Deserve Your Loyal Support Home-owne- d Watch Special Articles In the Utah Labor Nevs Read the Ado AFTER scene in Washington should organized labor and oth NEWS AND COMMENT give way before their enemies. (Continued from page 2) ment to the city manager plan was Labor overwhelmingly defeated. put up a great fight against the proposed change all during the campaign. The plan was beaten almost two to one. The Duluth Labor World, northern Minnesotas leading labor weekly, was the only newspaper in Duluth to oppose the manager plan. The results of the election demonstrated the effect of the Labor Worlds influence in leading an active campaign against the plan sponsored by special interests. post-Roosev- elt er progressive forces be forced to (Continued from page 1) labor, farmers; but practices have a way of falling far short of words. What is happening to the legal rights of organized labor in this regime is a grim case in point. The 1937 legislature enacted the first state labor relations law in the U. S., a little Wagner act. The reactionary coalition in con trol of this years legislature is now about to replace this little Wag ner act of 1937 with a measure they have modestly labeled the employment peace act. Its provisions would put organized labor into such a legal strait-jack- et that State Federation of La bor officials have declared they would take all their cases before Labor Relations the National Board and boycott the proposed body. C. I. 0. spokesmen, as well, have pointed out the dangers the enact ment of such a law would hold for labor. The forces behind it, they disclosed, are not the rank and file of Wisconsin farmers - some of whom are afraid union organizers will extend their activities, to workers in farm cooperatives and in the marketing of perishable farm products, in spite of legal that but the guarantees against anti-labAssociated notoriously Farmers of California. Orgy of Sabotage There appears to be little hope of stopping the program of sabotaging social legislation, of which the employment peace act is but a sample. The machinery for the enactment (and destruction) of laws in the once Proressive state of Wisconsin is completely at the tender mercies of the reactionary post-Progressi- Heil-controll- ve ed or bloc. Other measures they have already introduced would forbid secondary picketing;" prohibit strikes and picketing by minority groups and complicate procedural methods before the Labor Board and increase legal expenses of petitioning unions. A little TV A measure for Wisconsin put into effect by the Progressives two years ago also appears doomed. This was intended to promote and develop rural electrification, cooperatives and mu nicipal ownership of public utilities. Already dumped overboard i a law which was designated to reorganize overlapping state government departments for greater efficiency and economy. Rehearsal for U. S. Action. Perhaps typical of the positive measures proposed by the present CONSUMER NOTES ARE YOU PLANTING A GARDEN THIS SPRING? Dont squeeze pennies when you go to buy seeds for your back yard garden patch. Buy the best quality seeds you can : it will pay in the end, is the advice of the Consumers Counse of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Save any seeds you have, left over. Next year they will be just as good if kept in a ventilated tin or glass container. Dont let your enthusiasm run away with you when you plan your vegetable garden unless you have lots of land. Ten or 12 kinds of vegetables including beans, radishes, carrots, spinach, parsnips, and lettuce should be enough to keep your table well supplied "with vegetables fresh from the garden throughout the summer months. Dont waste seeds when you plant. Soace for seeds for all of these vegetables, except beans, at intervals of 4 or 5 to an inch. If weeds flourish in your back yard, its probably a good place to have a garden. Healthy weeds are an indication that the soil is good and with a little preparation can be made to produce vitamin-ric- h foods for the familys salad bowl. BOIL EGGS SLOWLY Boiling an egg is not simply a matter of dropping it into a kettle of hot water, putting a hot flame under it, and letting it go. Thats the quickest way to spoil he texture and flavor of a good egg, says the Consumers Counsel of the AAA. Scientists. in . the. , Bureau of Home Economics laboratories say hat when cooking eggs no matter what style cook them slowly. Overcooking or cooking them with too much heat will make the eggs tough and leathery, and will injure their flavor. SENATOR KING VOTES STARVATION FOR THE UNEMPLOYED Senator King, the Wall Street rubber stamp, as usual, voted starvation for the unemployed when he voted against $50,000,000 additional relief work funds asked by President Roosevelt. Senator Thomas voted for addi- tional funds. The proposal for the additional combine is funds was defeated by a vote of 49 Republican-Democratthe setting up of a State Depart- to 28. Here is how the Senators from mental Research Assn. (what states voted: the would which names!) lovely Clark of funds additional For amount, observers say, to nothing Murof Johnson Colorado, less than a Gestapo Idaho, of Wheeler Montana, and for prying into the affair's of state ray of bodies and their personnel appoint- Pittman of Nevada, Schwartz All Utah. of and Thomas ed under all previous Progressive Wyoming Democrats. administrations. for starAgainst the funds andworkers This is only a part of the sad relief of the vation spectacle. But it is, undoubtedly. a Ashurst and of rehearsal, in' miniature, of the Adams of Colorado, of New Hatch Arizona, Hayden Mexico, King of Utah and McCar-ra- n of Nevada. All Democrats, or C. J. KETCHUM Repocrats. ic inter-mounta- in Heil-controll- ed Wrecking Co., Inc. We buy, sell and move buildings I Everything for the Builder. We buy buildings to wreck. , I I 2320 So. Main Hy. 2627 ' Solution Mother (after relating pathetic story) Now, Dennis, wouldnt you like to give your bunny to that poor little boy you saw today who hadnt any father? Dennis (clutching rabbit) father inCouldnt we give him ' stead? At last I have discovered the ideal triple alliance home, radio and the theater. Helen Hayes. Best Wishes, Labor, and Welcome to Our Store- - Western FurmiKuir Always A Good Deal For Your Money. CAFE, HOTEL AND BAR SUPPLIES Wasatch 8152 135 So. State Salt Lake City : 7 DISTRICT U. M. W. LOCALS NOMINATE DISTRICT OFFICERS . Albert Roberts, vice president of District 22, United Mine Workers of America, was in Salt Lake City for a few days this week on official business. He makes his home at Price. The district embraces Utah and Wyoming. Mr. Roberts reported that the local unions throughout the district are now nominating candidates for all district offices. The first election will be held the first Tuesday in September. Should there be any run-oelections they will be helc the second Tuesday in October. A1 officers elected will assume office January 1 following the elections The principal incumbent officers are John Ross, president; Mr. Rob erts, vice president; Virgil Wright, secretary-treasure- r, and Tony international board member. ff Ra-da- lj, NO COAL MINERS AGREEMENT and the state plumbing law and asked strict enforcement of its provisions. More than 100 master SENATOR THOMAS SAYS plumbers of the state were in atLABOR ACT WILL NOT BE tendance. EMASCULATED women of the association members held a social during the Senator Elbert D. Thomas of afternoon at the Newhouse. An Utah, chairman of the Senate LahnnJer dance bor committee, has served notice the Ambassador hotel, WM held at that the administration would fight any attempt to cripple the Na- UNITY MARKS AUTO tional Labor Relations Act through WORKERS MEET amendments. Senator Robert Wagner of New Freed .(UNS) York, author of the act, is defend- fr5JEVLAN) factionalism which ing it as a fair and effective in- marked,y?e the Homer Martin regime, strument for the promotion of eco- the United Automobile Workers of nomic peace and industrial justice. America closed Senator Wagner said the law has convention here its enthusiastic benefited workers, employers and plans were laid tolast week after complete organthe public at large. And diminu- ization of tion of its effectiveness would be a dustries. the auto and aircraft innational evil; its mutilation would The convention adopted an embe a national calamity, he de- phatic stand on defense of the clared. Wagner Labor Relations Act and voted to Inform Congress of the FIRST SOUTHERN SUGAR unions determined opposition to PLANT SIGNS WITH C. I. O. all amendments. The La Follett oppresNew union history was made in sive labor practices bill was enthe south last week with the signfunds for dorsed, and ing of the first union contract ever WPA were adequate urged. to be negotiated with the sugar reThomas Lauds C. I. 0. finery below the Mason and Dixon High tribute to the work of the line. C. I. 0. in holding its gains through The Imperial Sugar company of the 1937-3- 8 depression was paid in Sugarland, Texas, 30 miles from (Continued on page 4) Houston, signed with the United Sugar Refinery Workers local industrial union No. 917 of the C. OUR BEST WISHES TO LABOR I. O. The firm manufactures Imperial pure cane sugar. RICHEDA GROCERY The contract covers 380 emWe Save You Money on ployes. making the entire town of Sugarland, which is company-owne- d, CURED MEATS and GROCERIES practically a 100 per cent Phone C. I. O. union community. Hyland 307 1157 South 8th East -l VOTES FOR C. O. O. working in the production transportation of coal. t0? 95-TO- The threatened stoppage of work Jor bituminous coal miners of the United States because of failure of operators and miners to agree on iroposed wage scales will not af ect district No. 22, according to Virgil Wright, United Mine Work of this ers secretary-treasurdis-;ri- er ct. Patronize Your Friends of th Rathbome 'heework.rs & Hair Ridgeway box manufacturing plant at Cass Lake, Minnesota, voted unanimously for the C. I. O. to act as their sole bargaining agent. Out of 97 votes cast, 95 voted yes, one voted no, TAYLOR PHARMACY CO; Ed Smith, Mgr., Member of Organized Labor Brewery Workers Local 64 Machinists Local 106 Complete Drug Store Service Free Delivery Prescriptions Union Made Bottled Beer 780 S. W. Temple Was. 1892 j Secretary Wright has announced and one was a blank. hat District No. 22 and practically all other outlying districts have LESTER BILLS HEADS skeleton agreements with producers of the district that provide present wage scales and hours until the Appalachian region, center of the present argument, have reached an agreement. Present contracts expired at midnight on March 31. The Appalachian miners and producers failed to agree on the flat wage increase of 50 cents a day week which the minand a ers asked. Wyoming Labor Journal. made , UTAH PLUMBERS Lester Bills of Salt Lake City was elected president of the Utah State Master Plumbers Association at its annual meeting held in Newhouse hotel Saturday. He succeeds Ambrose H. Higham of Salt Lake City. Welcome , Labor The other officers elected are: Alex Mortensen of Provo, vice Plan Your Stop Here president; John H. Reeve of Salt E. Lake City, secretary-treasure- r; We Save You Money J. Larsen of Brigham City, S. F. Grant of American Fork, M. G. FRANK BONACCI On Gas and Oil Ericson, A. Erskine and Mr. Hig-1aURGES SUPPORT OF all of Salt Lake City, diCOAL INDUSTRY rectors. The guest speaker of the meetIn a recent radio talk at Price, ing was L. J. Kruse of Oakland, Frank Bonacci, C. I. O. field rep- Cal., director of the National Asresentative in Utah, urged support sociation of Master Plumbers. of Utahs coal industry. He said The meeting voted approval of coal mining is a basic industry which employs a large number of Order Now men in its production and transML. inSeeds, Feeds Chix, Baby portation and as the production increases the number of workers Anderson Hatchery 1234 Beck St, No. Salt Lake crease, not temporarily but day by Blvd. this and Wash. Ogden 2262 after and year, year day On Highway 91 results in large pay rolls. Mail Orders Promptly Filled -The production of coal with its man-powis a creator of employment. It furnishes work for thousands of men and women. 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