Arizona Sun

GLENDALE PEOPLE HEAR LABOR'S PLEA ON LAW TO DESTROY UNIONS

Labor's campaign to defeat the Right-to-Starve amendment was launched in earnest Saturday night, September 28, with a rally in the Glendale City Park.

This rally marked the beginning of a program to carry to people on the streets in the various towns of Arizona the true story of this vicious attack upon organized labor.

Tiny Stokes and his orchestra, whose services were provided without charge to the Citizens' Committee by the Musicians Local No. 586 furnished a background of musical entertainment. Arrangements for the entertainment were made by Jimmy Hart of the Musicians Union.

Speakers against the Right-to-Starve amendment were D. A. Baldwin and Darrell Parker.

A crowd estimated at five hundred listened attentively to the speakers and showed repeated appreciation for the musical entertainment of Tiny Stokes.

The speakers emphasized the fact that should this amendment be adopted in Arizona it would be particularly harmful to small business men such as those of Glendale whose sales depend almost entirely upon working people who are their patrons.

"Destruction of organized labor with the wrecking of wage standards would immediately be reflected in less business for the small merchant," Mr. Baldwin stated.

The speaker also gave illustrations of starvation wages paid by establishments where the workers were unorganized and predicted that with the adoption of the misnamed Right-to-Work amendment these conditions would become general.

The response of the people of Glendale to last Saturday's rally was so encouraging that the Committee plans to present a similar rally next Saturday night in Buckeye.