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Show 7 jf v 1 j 1 . , :i i' iV urJiJtf MAY 2 2 1939 ;ns o2 l&G'zriLaxAr (DiiaiOTOinit!; IEto-emit- o Hurl -- ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL. X; NO. 46 . SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. M : 7 : jig' Crowds Expected At Ceremonies Will Be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Northern Oil Co. Location In White Valley SEVERAL BUSES AND PRIVATE CARS WILL TRANSPORT CROWDS TO THE More than 2000 Utahns are expected to witness the spudding of northern Utahs first test oil well at White Valley loca tion of the Northern Oil company, 14 miles northwest of Tre monton, 2 p. m., Saturday, May 20. Hundreds of private cars will be headed to the important event in Box Elder county Saturday. A bus service will be available to those who do not have other means of traveling. A number of passenger buses have been chartered to accommodate those going from Salt Lake occasion. City, Ogden and other cities for the history-makin- g An appropriate program has been arranged to take place just prior to dropping the drill that will pierce the earth in the beginning of the drilling operations on the anticline that geo Coal Miners Break Long Lockout Win Greatest Gains In Union History , ? tg, j der which TWOC undertook the among the 1.250,000 workers in the textile industry. 5 Cents Per Copy il Ml Spnddiag 7M task of organizing the unorganizec Price: Trespassing at the Capital By A. I. HARRIS flevs and Comment NEW FARM PLAN RECEIVES ATTENTION By M. L T. POSTMASTER FARLEY WILL BE IN S. L. MONDAY NIGHT NORTHERN UTAHS FIRST WELL (Continued on page 4) 1939 WASHINGTON The first of a series of new farm bills intended for Congressional action next year representing a new approach to the entire farm problem was introduced last week Postmaster General James A. by Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D) of Montana. This and simFarley will arrive in Salt Lake City ilar bills to be presented (some of which may have already Monday evening and will address an made their the time this reaches print) appearance by informal public dinner at 7:30 at the Newhouse hotel. The dinner will be attended by members of the Utah Postmasters Association, as well as other political friends of the visitor. Mr. Farley is accompanied by Second Assistant Postmaster General Ambrose OConnell, They will remain here Monday night. Mr. Fariey is also chairman of the Democratic national committee and during his stay here will confer with Democratic party leaders of Utah. A. S. Brown, Democratic national committeeman for Utah, has extended an invitation to the public to attend the Monday evening dinner. Reservations may be made at the Democratic state headquarters in the Newhouse hotel. combination of domestic allotment, cost of production, and other sim- ilar features. They would not re quire action on the part of Congress at every session but would The Wheeler be bill deals only with wheat. Chief sponsors of these bills are the National Farmers Union, M. W. Thatcher, and other farm experts. It is reliably reported that these bills have the attention of very important persons in the Department of Agriculture, and that self-continui- they may finally even replace the AAA. The administration of the plan is said' to be simpler than any yet proposed. It calls for paying the farmers parity price on the domestically-consumed portion of the crop; no appropriation is made out Each farmer of the treasury. would receive a domestic allotment, with the smaller farmers receiving a relatively larger allotment. The (Continued on page 8) King Coal Flirted With Disaster INTERESTING TO UTAH SILYER REPUBLICANS Old King Coal let others run his kingdom for a short time, and was faced with disaster. Like some European monarchs who take their orders from A group of Republicans in Con- Fascist dictators, American coal operators were letting .Wall 'HrCTS YORK (UNS) - The UnfteLMme Workers of gress are urging the repeal of the StreHTHictaforiTand outside interests tell them what to do. purchase act. America, led by John L Lewis, Friday swept'to a mighty vic- United States silver news These American dictators have the same type of mania for to Utah is This interesting lockout of 340,000 miners and win- Republicans tory, smashing a especially to those conquest as have their Fascist mjners an(j thus almost created a t ning the union shop and exclusive bargaining rights. who are interested in silver mining. jrethem. To them the coal indus- national catastrophe by depriving An agreement providing for the union shop was reached their in of coal, and threatened a the is country battleground just try THOMAS DEFENDS C. their own industry with disaster. p by the subcommittees representing miners and operators, and SENATOR the campaign against U. S. SCHOOL AID BILL Outside Interests I. O. and organized labor generally. was ratified late Friday night. had coal have weeks of negotiations After The operators Settlement of the lockout came less than, 48 hours after Senator Elbert D. Thomas o collective President John L. Lewis explained bar of years satisfactory representatives of the union and operators had conferred at the Utah, Sunday night, said thattothose United refusal to reach an the the relations with operators gaining edu who would deny federal aid White House with President Roosevelt The America. as follows: Mine Workers of agreement enemies of common whole The United Mine Workers demanded the union shop anc cation were as well as the minObviously the interference of industry, for the people. learning stabilthe outside interests has stopped an from has benefited recognition as sole bargaining agency in order to forestall atSenator Thomas, who is co ers, he said. and industrial standards agreement, bil ity, higher tempted chiselling by the A. F. L. sands in other sections of bitumi author of the Harrison-Thoma- s bad time for the operis a inustriai a which It powerful peace in aid to federal to -- -- ek open-sho- Progressive Miners, who had sent organizers into eastern coal fields in the hope of creating disruption in the ranks of the countrys largest and most powerful union. As result of the signing of agreement 300,000 miners in the Appalachian area returned to work under union contracts. Other thou- - grants provide throughout the schools, declared that the states country are returning to jobs dur- would surrender none of their coning this week. More than 400,000 trol and that the federal governminers were expected to be back ments only role would be that of a on their jobs by next Monday. provider of funds. Union Contracts The wealthier centers, he said The union shop provision wil were making forward strides in edmean that all employes must join ucation, but the poorer communi(Continued on page 3) ties were not only failing to maintain a parity with their own miserable past, but were actually losing ground. nous coal areas C. I. O. Textile Union Raised Weekly Wage s PHILADELPHIA (UNS) Wage increases' totalling $1, 200.000 weekly have been won for textile workers under C. L O. union contracts, according to a report submitted to the first constitutional convention of the Textile Workers Organizing Committee by Sidney Hillman, chairman, and Emil Rieve, executive director. The convention opened here at 150 North Broad street, formerly .Scottish Rite Temple, Monday morning, May 1 5. The report was also submitted to the United Textile Work- ers convention, meeting at the same place, by George Baldanzi, president, and James Starr, secretary-treasurer. About 235,000 textile workers employed by 950 companies are now under contracts working signed by the TWOC, the officers report states. In addition, 150,000 textile workers have signed membership cards, - and agreements covering some 39,000 are being negotiated by the TWOC as sole bargaining agency. $13,800,000 More recommendaMinimum wage tions for the textile industry, under the Wage-Hou- r Act, will bring an annual increase of $13,800,000 for 181.000 workers, the report states. union has brought. , If left to themselves, there is little doubt that the operators would have agreed to the unions reasonable requests without a lockout. But instead of this, they listened to the Wall Street dictators and locked out hundreds of thousands of ators to undertake to destroy the United Mine Workers of America in this year of 1939, to please labo- interests in this country r-hating who are opposed to the extension of collective bargaining. We assert that that cannot be (Continued on page 7) . BETWEEN THE LINES By CECIL OWEN Publicity Director, Labors BOSTON CONVENTION BACKS ROOSEVELT Non-Partis- an Support of President Roosevelt for a third term if he accepts the riomination was voiced by delegates representing 82,000 organized workers at the second annual con vention in Boston of Labors League of Massachusetts. The vote on the motion was 135 to 19. The convention also went on record favoring salary increases for members of the State legislature. Non-Partis- an UNITED HATTERS MEET IN NEW YORK The New York Worlds Fair has designated May 20 as the United Hatters day. It is the opening date for the regular biennial convention of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union. It is expected that 4000 lsTew York members of the union as well a's- - the 174 convention delegates will participate in the opening days festivities. The convention will continue un-- il May 27. The sessions will hold special significance because the Jnited Hatters, at its 1936 conven-- ( Continued on page 3) League WASHINGTON The way of the appeaser is even harder than the way of the transgressor. Washington observers nibbed their eyes in wonderment as they read resolutions adopted by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in convention here. It hardly seemed possible any sizeable group could have lived through the past eight years and learned absolutely nothing. Resolutions stating the Chamber of Commerce view were unchanged from the Hoover days. So far as the New Deal is concerned, the Chamber is against it, lock, stock and barrel It even proved them wholeheartedly. The exhibition by the Chamber asked outright repeal of the wage-hou- r of Commerce, purporting to speak act with its low 25 standards and for business nationally, was so its conciliatory administration. And though the Chamber itself represents a collective effort by business, it took a stand for dras-;i- c amendment of the Wagner act o destroy labor's right to organize. If the amendments which the Chamber wants were applied to jusiness it would probably be for business men to join he Chamber of Commerce. Since be amendments all operate against workers who want to join unions, lowever, the Chamber moguls ap im-jossi- blackly reactionary that it gave it the dubious distinction of being the most hardshell crowd of the business world. It used to be the National Association of Manufacturers that had this role. Talk of business appeasement was dealt a body blow by the Chambers conduct. It is realized by Administration policy framers that nothing short of. complete repeal of the New Deal would ever satisfy that crowd. Perhaps now (Continued on page 6) |