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Show LUUL4RT rA'A'Sf xjr Review o Current Events JuN2 Qf uxjus 1936 Aoar erne THE PCOFZX'SJTAPER EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL VI: NO. Price: 46. 5 Cents Per Copy Stand For Harmonious, Liberal Democrat Party In Utah Security For the People of Utah is Impossible, Unless the Democratic Party Continues in Control of the State Government Utah Democracy Must Keep in Tune With the New Deal Program of Let Progressive Democrats Do the Job Right. President Roosevelt Political Outlook In Utah and U. S. Compiled From Reports of Observers Maw for Governor Dr. Herbert U. Maw, president of the state senate, and a well known progressive Democrat, entered the race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination at a big mass meeting in the Newhouse hotel Saturday night. In his speech announcing the said candidacy, Senator Maw, that as is well known there are many important issues at stake which must be taken care of in the near future, and it is his belief that the Democratic party must solve them. He told that one reason he had hesitated to become a candidate af ter many persons had urged him to enter the race as a candidate for governor, was the fact that Governor Blood is a friend and a very fine gentleman, is strictly honest, and that he believed that he has applied himself more closely to the affairs of the state than any predecessor. Bad Advisers But with a progressive national administration, a progressive par ty in the state and a progressive legislature, we have a conservative The govexecutive department. ernor has declared in favor of the new deal and President Roosevelt. I am willing to take him at his word, but unfortunately he has surrounded himself with advisers who have strongly opposed the new deal. A good example of this is the Social Security Act. The administration of this act is headed by a man .wha was a keynote speaker at the Republican state convention two years ago and who at that time bitterly denounced the Support Liberal DemocratsDefeat Reactionary Enemies of New Deal The Passage of Social Legislation Depends On the Victory of Must Nominate and Liberals In the Democratic Party Elect Governor and Legislature Who Will Make Utah Social Security Laws Conform to the National Act Utah's Minimum Wage Law for Women Is One of the Best In the Nation; It Must Be Put In Effect So That the WoGovernor Miller of Wyoming and Attorney S. D. Thurman of men Workers May Benefit In Decent Wages In Keeping Salt Lake Will Be Principal Speakers With American Standards of Living. Ogden Man Is Chairman Rawlings Will Chosen Temporary Chairman Utah today stands at the crossroads. Open Convention at 10 a. m. In Egyptian Theater DeleUtah today is divided into three separate forces the force gates Will Choose Envoys to National Convention am Elect National Committeeman and Committee woman-8- 00 of liberalism led by those who y are in sympathy Votes Apportioned Among 29 Counties. with the program of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and opposed to it the force of stark reaction, as represented by the The Democratic state convention Temporary officers to serve wit followers'of Hoover, Fletcher, and other reactionary leaders of to elect delegates to the national Mr. Dobbs will be: Mrs. Wade the Republican fold party; and a small group of convention in Philadelphia, and Johnson, Ogden, vice chairwoman communist-controlle- d farmer-labo- r of lowers party. also elect national committeeman Marl Gibson, Price, secretary, If Utah is to have a liberal government that will keep in and committeewoman, will be call- and Miss Lavina M. Smith, Ogden, ed to order by State Chairman Cal- assistant secretary. The sergeants step with the program of President Roosevelt and national legwill be: John P. Madsen islation as proposed by a Democratic congress there is only one vin W. Rawlings, 10 a. m., Saturin at theater Duchesne; Ogden. Myron Bybee, Tropic day, Egyptian it can be accomplished, and that is through the liberal Chairman Rawlings in outlining Sam Dorritv, Kanosh; Thomas way the program to the Utah Labor Black, Marysvale, and Edwin Me Utah Democrats Meet In Ogden Saturday whole-heartedl- loud-mouthe- at-ar- News said that the musical program is in charge of a Democratic committee of Ogden, and no doubt it will be excellent. , Governor Leslie A. Miller of Wyoming will be the guest speaker. Sam D. Thurman, Salt Lake City attorney, will deliver the keynote address. Stuart P. Dobbs, Ogden, will be temporary chairman of the conven tion. May Speak .Chairman Rawlings said that Wilson McCarthy, ' prominent Utah Democrat and at present cotrustee of the D. & Ii. G. W. railroad, has been invited to attend the convennew deal. tion. He has indicated that he will Some of the worst denouncements of the new deal are heard .0 attend and will probably deliver a the state capitol, he stated. short address. Congressmen Abe Murdock and Patronage Problem He said that one of the greatest J. W. Robinson are expected to be problems is patronage, and the in attendance. They intend to fly fact that nearly all of the from Washington and arrive in on page 3) Ogden Saturday morning. V ' govern-(Continue- d Hews and Comment ics. The New Deal program has accomplished so much for the people of this nation that when one starts analyzing these accomplishments we find that it cannot all be told in one article, but it takes a series of them to hit even the most important high spots. For this rea- son we are continuing these articles from week to week until we have covered the entire program. The vast majority of our readers are interested in learning the facts about the New Deal, especially at this time when there is so much subversive propaganda (Continued on page 2) ; ; THE NEW DEAL By M. I. T. Trials and Tribulations The trials and tribulations of a liberal publication of the caliber of the Utah Labor News are more arduous than the average reader has any idea that they are. Naturally, among the thousands of readers of this paper there are those who take exceptions to some of the things appearing in its columns. This is to be expected. Our aim at all times is to give the facts as the facts are regarding economics, politics and all of the things the Utah Labor News tries to cover. The editor is in full accord with "the aims and objects of the administration of President Roosevelt and his New Deal program. In order to accquaint the readers with the accomplishments of this program we have been compiling facts on the subject and we have published these for the past several weeks under the caption, The New Deal An Answer to Reactionary Crit Pollen, Park City. Father Kennedy of Ogden wil deliver the invocation. Afternoon Session The afternoon meeting will start at 2 oclock to permit the closing of the convention before 4:30 p. m Delegates to the convention wil number 800, apportioned on the basis of one delegate for each 145 votes cast for Franklin D. Roose '' velt in 1932. j each "Delegate apportioned ( county follows: Beaver, 8; Box Elder, 25; Cache, 45; Carbon, 29 Daggett, 1; Davis, 21; Duchesne, 11; Emery, 11; Garfield, 3; Grand 3; Iron, 9; Juab, 13; Kane 2; Millard, 13; Morgan, 4; Piute, 3; Rich, 3; Salt Lake, .329; San Juan, 3; Sanpete, 25; Sevier, 16; Summit, 14; Tooele, 13; Uintah, 12; Utah, 83; Wasatch, 8; Washington, 11; Wayne, 3, and Weber, 79. (Continued on page 4) AN ANSWER TO REACTIONARY CRITICS (Continued from Last Week) Records which cannot be questioned disclose the existence of higher business levels during the early part of 1936 when compared with the same period of 1935. The February department store report of the Federal Reserve board showed sales during February of this year 13 per cent above those in February 1935. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT y freight revenues for the year 1936 exceeded those Democratic party. Therefore, the Democratic party of Utah in 1934 by more than $155,000,000. Passenger revenues increased approximately $12,000,000. Railway sure. Do you realize what that must exercise utmost care that it nominates and elects officers employment was augmented more means? The American and legislators who are liberal and true believers in the princithan 6 per cent for February 1936, among the hardest workingfarmers, in men ples of the national Democratic administration. compared with the same month in the world, were being turned from Men, Women and Children First 1935. Security their homes in the midst of plenty Labor Statistics As regards permanent legislation, the basis of an enlightlike exiles because a ractionary ReLabor Department statistics dis publican administration was unable ened legislative program in Utah must be the passage of genuine close a 33 per cent decline in em- to manage properly our economic social legislation. ployment from April 1930 to April policies. In his to congress on June 8, 1934, President 1933 and a decrease in pay rolls The Roosevelt administration Roosevelt message said that 53 among all our objectives I place the seper broke the curve of deflation and during the same period of This is started the spiral upward. How curity of men, women, and children of the nation first. cent. Industrial employment shown to have risen 31 per cent was this done? Simply by build- is even more true of Utah than of the nation as a whole. The between April 1933 and December ing up for the farmers a decent resident designated these objectives as: 1935 and the industrial pay rolls income. It substituted industrial First. Decent Steam-railwa- tf have increased 61 per cent during the same time. The agriculture and industry are making rapid strides back to prosperous conditions under the, wise policies of the Roosevelt administration. There is no occasion to repeat the dreary economic picture which prevailed when the Roosevelt administration came into power. The people are acquainted with the facts. Farmers Became Exiles During the Hoover administration approximately 900,000 farms were sold either for delinquent taxes or under mortgage foreclo activitv for industrial stagnation. Our present enviable position in world economics is a direct result of Roosevelt policies. Dont let anyone tell you otherwise. On Road to Prosperity Every business page in every newspaper daily proclaims by its headlines that our people are again on the road to prosperity and the emergency is receding farther and farther into history. The New Deals political foes cannot dispute the facts, but, driven by political necessity, they seek tq belittle the administration that f (Continued on page 5) homes to live in; Second. Development of natural resources to afford the fullest opportunity for all who want to work; and Third. Safeguards against the major misfortunes of life. The Social Security Act is concerned with the third of Roosevelts objectives, that is, safeguards against misfortunes that cannot be eliminated in this tjon must be enacted so that it is e world of ours. honest, and conforms with the national act. It must not he based e ment insurance, pensions on deceit. Utah should have no e and insurance, security for ground for a poorly executed pauchildren, aid to the blind, exten- per law. The liberal Democrats of sion of public-healt- h services, vo- Utah are opposed to a graveyard cational rehabilitation. pension. They stand for a pension e Pension act that will fully conform to the e Utahs (Continued on page 6) pension legislq- man-mad- That act provides for unemployold-ag- old-ag- Old-Ag- old-ag- |