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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. JULY 24, 1936. THE NEW DEAL - AN ANSWEK TO REACTIONARY CRITICS (Continued from 1) Authorized ot appropriation $300,000,000 for road work in the fiscal year 1935, and $100,000,000 in the fiscal year 1936. and provid- ed that neither of these grants would have to be matched by the states. In addition there has teen provided federal aid of $125,000,- 000 for road work in each of the fiscal years 1930 and 1937, which must be matched by the states, $24,000,000 to' be each of the next three spent during fiscal years on forest highways, roads through public lands, roads and trails in national parks, and Indian reservation roads. Mail Act The (Approved Aug. 14, 1935. Public Law No. 275, 74th Cong.) Provides a week for 123,000 postal employees, effective rvtnhpp 1 iqt: Affects supervisors, clerks, Bpe- rial rlerks carriers rural delivery lie Low No. 81(1, 71th Cong.) Provides conditions for the pur. ,ase f aupplies and the making contracts by the United States Kvernment. Stipulates that public contracts in excess of $10,000 made ,y any executive department, inpendent establishment, or other ap.ncy or instrumentality of the United States shall include stipu- Jat,ons requiring the contractor to .a manufacturer or er ,n the materials forregular which he is contracting; that he pay not less than the Prevailing wages for ?n. employed in the industry or f imiJ.ar industries operating in the locality; that he permit no person rk in ,cxce8s of efcht hours f f.hours n ftny f Result of Montana rimary Election Shatter (3.0.1?. Newspapers Fake Presidential Foils Manufactured Poll Placed Montana in Republican Column Ac- JACKSON LEAGUE tual Poll In Tuesdays Primary Election Places the State in OUTING AUG. 8 Vote Utah Democratic Column by a More Than Labor News Exposed the G. O. P. Newspaper Straw Vote The next big congregation of Actual Voting Upholds Labor News' Claim Show Up Utah Democrats will be at Saltair Artists. Humbug 0 on August 8 when more than people are expected to attend The national straw vote published in Republican newspa- the annual outing of the Jackson Democratic League. pers and manufactured in Republican newspaper offices placed Lawrence Nelson, president of Montana in a favorable column for the Republicans. The actua the league, and 11 ft general chairman " vote tells a different story. of arrangements, says the pro16 years .of Hnder P"?"8 18 Montana had a direct primary Tuesday to nominate can grams commence at 2 p. m., and ?"dr, ;jdn,ea!eoPers0n any didates for U. S. senator, congressmen and state offices. An continue until midnight, featuring floor shows, danc,con almost complete report from this actual balloting shows the speeches, music, a Performed ing, etc. following vote; Democrat 120,966 Cost Many Join : 35,087 Republican Following the decision of the Montana shows an overwhelming Democratic majority. United States supreme court holdEvery state where an actual vote has been cast shows big ing the National Industrial RecovExtends the benefits of the act eqatrjhefferTetweVS ery Act unconstitutional, American majorities for the Democrats. to radway postal cierks by provid-- 1 hours of is right employers News lengthened Utah Labor to the be that Actual voting proves mg that the service of such clerks that actualjy paid the ePmployee( so drastically that 839,123 work in exposing the humbug straw vote manufactured in Republican workers have been deprived of posSstlSTon In averaire not exceeding (b' a Penalty in the sum of $10 sible employment, according to a per day for each person employed newspaper offices. R submitted by William in violation of the child-labreport and 306 days annually and that railway convict.iabor Green, president of the American a provisions, postal clerks required to perform cancellation 0f contracts 'for a Federation of Labor, to President SOCIAL SECURITY ACT I Roosevelt. Provisions and nU.7:,?,Vi42jain. per-ma- 40-IIo- ur in 10,-00- 40-ho- ur fral-tnnf- I or Srf And authority to make new purchases or contracts against the account UTAH WELFARE PROGRAM of the offending contractor, (d) for authority withholding penalties in actions to be brought by the LEARN THE FACTS Attorney General in the name of the United States, and (e) payments of sums recovered or i Act of June 6, 1933, so as bed jn tbjs The members of the Utah State funds the counties say they are f0 tbe emp0yees to alter, the amount apportioned aggrieved byway Board of Public Welfare are: Gov- able to provide. If the people, then, such violations, to certain states for public em- provides machinery whereby a ernor Henry H. Blood, F. P. Champ, through their representatives must pioyment offices affihatetl with the contractor found Hugo B. Anderson, provide more money for the Weof ag'ra. T, L. Holman, United States Employment Service. vated offenses afcpaist th8act jouise Y. Robison, Rev. Jacob lfare Department. Provides for an appionment may be barred from (Continued next week.) on Trapp, and J. W. Gillman. of not less than $10,000 to each R0Vernment contracts bidding Facts Pertinent for three state for its assistance m the es- - years Utah was among the first ten UTAH LABOR NEWS tablishment of local employment Designates the Department of states to have its plans for old age offices. Under the agner-PeysON HONOR LIST Labor as the administrative agency assistance, dependent children and Act the appropriation f $3,000,- - and conferg Sothe blind in by approved needy necessary powers 000 annually until June 30, 1938, connection with the enforcement of cial Security Board in Washington. The Journal of Electrical Workwas to be apportioned among 'the Lbe act. Makes provisions for immediate ers and Operators, Washington, D. s This approval brought in the proportion of their hjc bearings for fact findings and grant of federal funds. C.. is one of the most valuable population to the total population complaints. The Social Security Act sets up periodicals in the United States. of the nation. By strict application Certain exceptions are made two systems for aiding the aged. Each month it contains special feathis rule four states Deleware, thp act, such as when goveramen One is designed to help the states tures of interest to its readers. In Nevada, Vermont, and yoming I business would be seriously impair-receiv- e give immediate assistance to agec the July number is an interesting less than $10,000 each. ed and tbe purchase of products in individuals on a BASIS OF NEED; article on the labor press by Ten-ne- ll k Act The the open market (farm, dairy, and the other to provide annuities in Crosby. (Approved June 13, 1934. Pub- - nursery products), the future to persons over the age The exchange list of the Electrilie Law No. 324, 73d Cong.) of 65, based upon their wage ex cal Workers Act Journal contains Made it unlawful to Prevent any- jJna 100 Public 1934. labor 21, perience. (Ap proved newspapers each nearly one from receiving the compensa- - Law K Assist Needy 73d from all parts of the United week, connection tion contracted for in The program to assist the needy States. Probably it would sur. Amended the Railway Labor Act 20 of today is administered by prise the editors of these papers of it Rewriting aged 1926, May by T iTLI" r f,nanTcTedf ayQlatcS State the Beard of Public Welfare. to know how much attention we and making several government but lnd i The program for the payment of pay to them, cha in the tnt says the Journal. forces employees to give back part diation board and tha operation benefits or annuities to the aged They bring us informatioji we could get in no other way. Prescribed 'a maximum penalty of the adJustment boards to settle in the future is to be administered the Utah Industrial Commis Honor List by for of $5,000 fine or imprisonment sion. These annuities are to be The following papers are placed 5 years, or both. of need but on the honor list for eagle-eye- d justment Board, which will have paid, not on a basis the The of fact that reason of of their local situation: four divisions, the members to be right, by (Approved June 19, 1934. Pub- selected by the rail carriers and payments will be made into a fund reporting Oklahoma Labor of Oklahoma lic Resolution No. 44, 73d Cong.) over a period of years for the bene- City; The Hosiery Worker, Philalabor organizations. Authorized the President to esfit of persons after they reach the delphia, which covers labor news Provided for the establishment or boards to in- - of tablish a board ad. of or in age of 65. regional system boards , generally and hosiery worker The state welfare department particular; the El Paso City and the if railroads the and and activities of employers or em employees desire to set up such has nothing to do about pensions. County Labor Advocate; the Memployees in controversies arising boards voluntarily. who talk about old age phis Labor Review; the UTAH LAPersons under section 7a of the National Abolished Board of pensions are talking about some- BOR NEWS; the Houston Labor Industrial Recovery Act or which Mediation, the present consisting of five mem thing concerning which the State Journal; Ijie Duluth Labor World; are burdening or obstructing, or bergi and established a new and Welfare Department has nothing the Oregon Labor Press of Portr. threatening to board called smaller the National to do. The Welfare Department land, Ore.; the East Bay Labor the free flow of interstate com- - Mediation Board with up to the Journal of Oakland, Calif.; The power to gives relief to the needy m welfare Unionist and Iublic Forum of the to funds of to limit select and given appoint employees Empowered any board so estab- as mediators under the instruc- - board for relief purposes. Sioux City, la., not strictly a labor a5 lished to conduct an election by the state welfare depart- paper but important to labor, with ssrne Today, tion with the the oi dojixcl emthe of secret ballot of any freedom to work as ment is spending all funds made its crusading editor, Wallace M. Commerce Comntis- - available to the department from ployees of a"y "I the Interstate Short; the Journal of Labor, Atm.ne by what person. persons or sion now sales tax. It is also spending lanta', Ga.; the Trades Unionist of the sses organization they desire to be repan carrier from all the funds contributed by the Washington, D. C.; the Tacoma prohib;td ... resented m order to insure the finaneial assistance to federal government and all the Labor Advocate; the Minnesota uion or employees from funds Union Advocate of St. Paul, Minn., for deems neces- which once put its editor, William rail. it of when the tion earner; prohibited Board, collective the purposes of bargain- roads from interfering in any man- sary the establishment of a per- Mahoney, in the mayors chair; the ing as defined in section 7a. with employees manent National Board of Ad- Minneapolis Labor Review, still in whatsoever ner such board, Provided that any to join any or- justment, to direct the carriers and the capable hands of Bob Cramer; or refusing joining with Presidential approval, may and specifical- labor organizations of their em- the Federation News, Chicago; the or union, ganization prescribe such rules and regula- ly provided that the choice of repployees, national in scope, to select Union Leader, of Toledo, Ohio. tions as it deems necessary to as- resentatives of be shall craft four any representatives to constitute sure freedom from coercion in re- determined the a National Air Transport Adjustof a Just Before the Battle by majority spect to all elections. shall members on Two This the Board. ment question. story is from an English voting employees Limited the life of the board or and two paper: carriers the selected be Labor Act by Air resoTransport the under established boards labor organizations in the Panting and perspiring, two lution to one year from June 16, (Approved Apr 10, 1936. Public by the selection the on a tandem bicycle at for Irishmen manner prescribed 1934, unless the President by proc- Law No. 487, 74th Cong.) National Railreached the top of a steep the of members of ength resothe of the Extends provisions lamation or congress bv joint Each Board. till. road Adjustment lution should before June 15, 1935, Railway Labor Act, with the exbe That was a stiff climb, Mike, the member of the Air board shall declare that the emergency recog- - ception of those concerning he the first. said repthe party compensated by Railroad Adjustment nized bv section 1 of the National National esSure and it was, said the othindustrial Recovery Act has ended. Board, to common carriers by air resents. The powers and toduties the Na- er. And if I hadnt kept the brake with reference Government Contracts Act engaged in interstate or foreign tablished Railroad tional Adjustment Board on we should have gone (Approved June 30, 1936. Pub- commerce, carriers by air trans- shall be exercised by the National of and the employees porting mail, Air Transport Adjustment Board. such carriers. Extends the jurisdiction of the If any system, group, or regional SEE unsatAuthorized National Mediation Board to dis- board of adjustment proves UNUSUAL either party, upon 90 putes in certain cases between car- isfactory, PLACES elect Dealer days notice to the other, may riers by air and their employees. Provides that disputes between to come under the Air Board. (Continued Next week) carriers and their employees, inon This Book 10, those April pending cluding Will Help 1936, before the National Labor Relations Board, shall be handled FELLOW UNIONISTS! You Plan in the usual manner up to and inGIVE YOUR TRADE TO Trips LUMBER cluding the chief operating officer THOSE WHO USE of the carrier designated to handle such disputes. Failing to agree, the parties may by petition refer the disputes to an appropriate adSUGAR HOUSE board of jurisdiction not justment A copy is waiting for LUMBER & IIDWE. exceeding that exercised by sysyou at any Pep 88 tem, group, or regional boards of Vico station, where CO. adjustment under the Railway Layour car will be bor Act. Such boards may be esOUR WAGES KEEP UNION checked over thortablished by agreement between 1164 E. 21st South IN UNION HANDS oughly to assure an employees and carriers or pending Salt Lake Allied Printing enjoyable trip. the establishment of a permanent Phone Hyland 555 Trades Council Board National of CO. Adjustment. UTAH OIL REFINING Empowers the National Media- - with-Peys- The annual outing of the Sagebrush Democratic club at Lagoon Monday night was well attended. Hundreds enjoyed the picnic dinner at 6:30 p. m. Among the speakers were Gov- ernor Henry li. Blood, Congressman J. Will Robinson, National Committeeman A. S. Brown, and Mrs. J. R. Rawlins, national County Commissioner J. K. Rawlins, president of the club, was the master of ceremonies. An elaborate musical and entertainment program was conducted under the direction of A. H. Bolton, chairman of the entertainment committee. Tommy Williams and Mrs. Flora Severn were on the job to see that all those who had no conveyances vere provided with transportation to the picnic grounds. Free dancing followed the pro. gram and continued until mid- night. The old timers say that it was one of the best managed outings If all patriotic societies would in the history of the Sagebrush buy only American-mad- e goods it club. would do more to stabilize our inBecome UNION.minded and stitutions than all the talk about the invasion of foreign ideas. er I er SAGEBRUSH MEET WELL ATTENDED I Want Roosevelt Again pub-state- tc-o- f Kick-Bac- P"J7m8 I far-reachi- ng I Labor-Disput- es I . obst' I -- ?eht,ftea?i7S Py 4-- ' SQUARE SALESMAN Is the Slogan of Millions Of course you are for Roosevelt! And because you are a supporter of the President you should get acquainted with the New Deal program of the President. The Utah Labor News is publishing a series of articles on the NEW DEAL. You should read them. The Utah Labor News is the only publication in Utah., that week in and week out espouses the cause of the NEW DEAL and DEMOCRACY. The Utah Labor News is an independent publication and for that reason a splendid periodical for the home. 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