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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, OCTOBER 23, 1936. 8 -- - """ 11 Editorial IPage For Vice President V -- 5wl " y 'v y Tlhe Utalh 'V! I, ) - p FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT j For Supreme Court Justice MARTIN M. LARSON For Secretary of State E. E. MONSON . SS: ' J For Attorney General JOSEPH CHEZ 4 ' v. ' kt For Treasurer REESE M. REESE BOOK TRUST DOMINATE KANSAS (Continued from Page 7) Four times the legislature, Re publican and controlled by Landon, has been in regular or special during the Landon adminis For Superintendent of Public and not one single act has tration, Instruction been or otner move made passed CHARLES II. SKIDMORE for the state to come to the assist ance of its starved, bankrupt, dil- -j apidated and antiquated school For Congressman First District Isystem-i-a system that has a counABE MURDOCK terpart in some southern states more than 30 years ago. Topeka is in wealthy Shawnee For Congressman Second Distric county, and yet some of its rural J. W. ROBINSON school teachers are paid $42.50 a ' month. Wyandotte county with Kansas City overflowing into it P. CAMPAIGN .pays some of its rural teachers $50 a month. Greenwood county ses-Isi- . DECEPTIVE G. 0. The Republican presidential campaign is full of evasion, indirection and downright deception. It has to be, for it stands for vested interests. Vested interests, seeking to rob the people of their heritage, must proceed by indirection, for peoples do not vote away their heritage unless they are fooled and befuddled into that act of sacrifice. Why? Are 'New Deal presidential electors on the New York ticket named Zaritski, Dubinski and Hillman," asks an advertisement of the reactionary Republicans. Thus the issue of communism is dragged into the campaign by inference and evasion. Mr. Landon's spokesmen have said the president accepts communist support. Among these spokesmen are the chairman of the Republican national committee and n a certain absent publisher. Really, we do not know what there is in the record of these gentlemen that should lead them to expect that the public will take them seriously, or believe that what they say is necessarily true. The Republican spokesmen have especially sought to prove their silly charges by citing the presence of the names of Sidney Hillman, David Dubinsky and Mr. Zaritsky on the ballot of the American Labor party in New York as presidential of the Amalgamated Clothing. Dubinsky is president electors. The American Labor party is the New 'York state affiliate of Labor s n League. Hillman is president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Dubinsky is president of the International Ladies Garment Workers. Zaritsky is of the Hatters and Millinery Workers. They are among president the finest labor organizations in our country. They are progressive, constructive and thoroughly American in their idealism and in their practices. American labor has held the front line trench against communism ever since communism became an issue and among the most valiant of all our labor men in the holding of that front line trench have been Hillman, Dubinsky and Zaritsky. They have been the unflinching and uncompromising foes of communism and we happen to know what we are talking about. One of the vital reasons why Hillman, Dubinsky and Zaritsky support Roosevelt and oppose Landon is their clear understanding that the election of Landon would put the nation in jeopardy of a really dangerous communist movement, from which our democracy might not survive. Every student of history knows, just as every student ,of physics knows, that for every action there is an opposition and News n ng For Auditor JOHN W. GUY HENRY II. BLOOD ILlaboIr, Non-Partisa- n self-respecti- JOHN N. GARNER For Governor - It is a rule that does not fail. NEWS AND COMMENT If Landon were to be elected, behind every cabinet chair, (Continued from Page 1) Jif not in it, there would be a du Pont, a Mellon, a Morgan, a Rockefeller, or a Machiavelli picked from among the monopo- measures lists who are supporting the Kansas governor in his effort to win to him. Hethan any governor prior has cooperated with the the election. Roosevelt administration 100 per ' The election of Landon would constitute such a plunge cent. back into economic darkness that a reaction from reaction The Democratic national platwhich is endorsed by the form, in would be, our opinion, inevitable. Democratic state platform, gives The charge against Hillman, Dubinsky and Zaritsky is one the men and women who for hope of the most foul yet made by anyone in a campaign that has toil. witnessed its share of slanderous attacks from the opposition. The broad policies and pro- These three men are honored and vigilant members o nouncements of the Democratic Labor's League. Labor's League party are 'everyones guarantee of good government. Only the hardspeaking politically for some 90 per cent of the organizec ened reactionary corporation repreworkers, and the only voice there is for the masses of the un- sentatives and selfish individuals for more democ are advocating the defeat of Demoorganized, stands for American democracy racy than is relished by the Liberty League and its economic cratic candidates. barons who represent the very spirit and substance of the Lan Working men and women, and labor union members above all don candidacy. should stand firm this year others, Particularly we want to emphasize the great service these for the Democratic organization. three men have rendered to America in eliminating the sweat Labor planks in both the national shop in their industries. In industries in which they have for so and state platforms are the most long been active in leadership, there is no sweatshop. Wages powerful of any time in the history political parties. and working conditions have been advanced to standards of of American labor law on the statute Every decency and hundreds of thousands of Americans live better looks of Utah was enacted into lives as a consequence. They are in aw during periods when the Demoand more this campaign to help create equal or better conditions for all cratic party was in power. Should who toil. And, let us point out especially, that in the develop working men and women forsake ment of these better conditions, it has been the consistent pol- good friends? We believe not! Because of the good record made icy of Hillman, Dubinsky and Zaritsky to work with the em- y Democratic administration in ployers, negotiating, reasoning, arriving at conclusions that ac- Jtah in behalf of the working men tually have been mutually beneficial in those great industries. and women, we believe that, the They are responsible for measures of progress which might well vast majority of them will vote for be emulated by the geat exploiting figures that compose the he Democratic state ticket straight. Liberty League and support Governor Landon in the hope of thus preserving their autocratic control over their industries and portunity during his four years in the lives and destinies of the wokers in them. office to remedy this situation., he state superintendent of public Non-Partisa- IS: f - - equal reaction. V '' y,,- ofi Our Candidates For President " on with its tremendous oil resources, Instruction and the educational where Landon oil leases are found, drees of the state at each regular legisla- pays some of its rural teachers or special session of the bill a ture have for a Kansas presented month. Eastern $37.50 a has more counties paying $25 to . school equalization fund which school teachers than has western would give to each school district a minimum sum per year of $675 for Kansas. school purposes. Only once has Disorganized School System succeeded in getting out bill this The abysmal chaos and disorof a committee room, and then it ganization of Kansas schools is on died the floor of the promptly found in the fact that it has 8,687 House. once Not has Alf Landon school districts, of which 7,267 are come to of these schools, rescue the ; One rural districts. either of this by passage urging district last year, paying its teach- mediocre or measures, by putting er $35 a month, operated for six months without a pupil in attend- before the legislature a comprehensive school reorganization proance; 22 districts had 1 pupil; 81 districts had 2 pupils; 163 districts gram. He kept a balanced budget at the expense of the children of had 3 pupils; 282 districts had 4 Kansas. 5 pupils; 339 districts had pupils; (Continued Next Week) 2,228 districts had from six to 10 pupils. Many of the schools are in operation only two or three All the political ballyhoo does months in the year. not amount to as much as the Landon has had an op- - chase of one Union Label article. one-teach- er ADD CDimit ff TTunimeS well-know- ; Non-Partisa- WAITING AT THE WHITE HOUSE GATE A LABOR CAM GO HANG |