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Show i' : ) VOL.5 No. 44 David Keith Bldg., Dial SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, NOV 28, 194J Published by C. N. Lund $1.50 PER YEAR Have Fmih aEol Hope In Tomorrow PROGRESSIVE OPINION EDITORIALS By C. ST. LUND Higherups Who Know As We Know Its with much satisfaction that we quoteMwo high church men whose statements are in line with what we have been say-ing about peace. Apostle George Albert Smith said: "I think that with the destruction everywhere with the predictions that the Lord made in the first section of the Doctrine and Covenants that peace should be taken from the earth, we must feel that that time has come," Apostle Joseph Fi lding Smith has said: ''Peace has been taken from the earth and will not return until Christ comes." And the Mormon pro-phet Joseph Smith said: 'Attempts to promote universal peace have failed. The world has had a fair trial for six thous-and years; The Lord will try the seventh thou and himself' Man has spoiled all his opportunities. And this is in line with the predictions of the ancient prophets. Poor.misguided men,' in their confusion and commotion then cannot make peace, Serious Labor Situation Hinders Defense Effort Members of Congress Also Demanding Facts On Charges That Big Business Plays Favorites in Defense Contracts. By BAUKHAGE National Farm and Home Hour Commenla, 4 Vrs tor. WNU Service, 1343 H Street, N-- Washington, D. C. The explosion in the defense set-up in Washington foreshadowed in these columns two weeks ago is about to take place. At least, as this is written, the fuse is being laid if not lighted. Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming and Hepresentative Coffey of Washington are both de-manding facts connected with charges that big business is playing favorites in the defense contracts. But an equally amazing story lies behind the way labor has been dealt with in the defense program. Part of the facts have leaked out piece-meal, some are still very much un-der cover. Put together they make an amazing revelation of what was behind the President's delay in taking action in the captive mine strike and also how bungling all along the line forced the adminis-tration into the worst labor situa-tion that has arisen since the de-fense program started. The trouble began vWien it was decided to take the settlement of certain labor disputes out of the United States Conciliation Service and place it in the hands of the Defense Advisory commission with branches headed by William S. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman. Up to that time from 95 to 98 per cent of the labor disputes were settled by the Conciliation service. But the remaining 2 to 5 per cent were slow-ing down defense and it was decided that Mr. Knudsen's staff represent- - ing industry and "Mr. Killman's staff representing labor could settle the . recalcitrants. The theory was that Knudsen's men would crack down on industry and Hillman's on labor. But it didn't work that way. Each favored his own kind. Mediation Board Founded So the National Defense Media-tion board was founded. All went along smoothly for awhile, although more and more criticism was heard that the board was exceedingly pro-lab-and achieved settlements by the simple process of conceding to labor's demands. Then the board made a mistake. It handed down one decision which opened the way for the United Mine Workers union shop demands which smashed the board, threatened the administration's foreign, policy and created the worst labor crisis that the country has faced in many a long day. The decision I refer to was in the case of the Bethlehem shipbuilding plant in San Francisco. The A. F. of L. union demanded a union shop, that is, that any man working for the company a certain period would have to join the union. The board granted this demand, thus forcing 20 per cent of the plant's n workers to join the A. F. of L. One member of the board, Cyrus Ching, representing industry, held out against the decisipn. He foresaw that it would create a precedent. When the decision was announced it was stated that it should not be taken as a precedent. This pious statement was like giving the baby a piece of candy "if he won't ask for another." Once the A. F. of L. had received this concession the C.I.O. stepped up and said: "I want one, too." The result was the famous Federal Ship-building and Dry Dock company case of Kearny, N. J., this time a shipyard on the East coast. Against the vote of the members of the Na-tional Mediation board representing industry, the union was given "maintenance - of - membership" which is a diluted union shop. The company refused to accept the deci-sion and the navy took over. Another Precedent Here was another precedent, whether the board meant it or not. And it didn't take long for John Lewis to take advantage of it and put in his demand for the union shop in the captive coal mines. If he had planned it that way he could not have been provided a belter opportunity to vent his ancient grievance against the President and set himself right in the middle of a national issue. If the case of the Bethlehem Ship-building workers was good, Lewis' was far better. C.I.O. has a 95 per cent membership in the captive coal mines. But not the kind of a 95 per cent that most people think it. Not 5 per cent n workers scat tered here and there in all the mines. But full 100 per cent mem-bership in many mines and none perhaps in a very few small ones. The National Defense Mediation board voted down Mr. Lewis' de-mand for a union shop and pan-dora's box flew open. One of the things that emerged was a highly paradoxical and highly painful situ-ation. For the board, by taking this rare anti-lab- step, had virtually left the operators in the position that if they had yielded in the later negotiations they would be in the position of supporting Lewis against the government. Still the situation might have been saved if something had not happened when the Presi-dent called the operators and Lewis and Secretary-Treasure- r Kennedy of the United Mine Workers to the White House.. When the men came in the Presi-dent did what his labor advisors . hoped he would. He made a brief ) appeal to both sides to get together and settle the question, since a strike must be avoided. If he had stopped there all might have been well. But he went on and said what Lewis felt was prejudicial to his case. This not only woke all the smouldering anger in the breast of John Lewis but when the commit-tee of 200 C.I.O. advisors heard about it they were just as mad. His feeling was reflected when he turned down the President's later proposals. President on the Spot And the President was on the spot. Congress was insisting on strike legislation. Speaker Sam Rayburn had promised it. Others were demanding that the troops be sent into the captive mines at once. That, wiser heads who knew the temper of the miners believed, would mean a strike in all the mines and the army would have to beat its bayonets into pickaxes. So the President paused, wrote a conciliatory letter to both parties. Meanwhile, congress could stew but the President was pretty sure that its members would not take the initiative of alienating the labor vote with primaries coming up in the spring and elections next fall. The prospective candidates for re-election wanted the onus to be placed squarely on him. Whether the Conciliation service could have handled the captive mine . strike as it is still handling the other 98 per cent of the cases of labor disputes no one can say. But it is clear that it was mishandled by the Mediation board and it is likewise clear that if critical congressmen finally crack down on Mr. Knudsen's dollar-a-ye- men for showing fa-vors to business they have plenty of grounds for cracking down on Mr. Hillman's stalwarts who created the pattern of labor partisanship that came near severely injuring not only the defense program but the administration's foreign policy as well. A Rip-Snorti- n' Texan Comes to Washington Another Texan has come to Wash- - ington and the moment of his arri-val was an historic one. We have had a lot of ringtailed wildcats from all parts of the coun-try, some human, and some not quite. Now we have something that will make even the Texas delegation in congress sit up and take notice, for this unwilling delegate from the Lone Star State is the wildest of them all. He is a Texas long-hor- A steer with an eight-foo-t spread of horn. He is 12 years old. He weighs 1,200 pounds and he is admittedly wilder than anything in the zoo where he has been given the place of honor i, right up near the entrance. Most people do not know that the Texas long-hor- is rarer than the buffalo which he once displaced on the Texas plains. He is a direct descendant from the wild cattle ; which the Spaniards brought to i, America when they came. Those f, cattle could walk endless miles to water. They were bred and de- - ' veloped to meet conditions that existed a hundred years ago in the great Southwest. Then water was piped and ditched into the great ranches and the fatter, easier go- - ing Herefords were introduced. The long-hor- n had the muscles and the endurance but he did have the meat, so he began to disappear. George Stimpson, a Washington correspondent from the Middle West, who is also a correspondent for Texas papers and a keen devotee of America's flora and fauna, start-ed out three years ago to get a Texas long-hor- n for the Washington Some Items Of Personal Interest Mr. Lund: The signed edi tocialin your paper of Nov. 21, entitled, ' Pea e, Peace. No More War." ought to be read by all thinking paople. It would cause them to reflect and see if they are in harmony w th the statements C.V H. Our faithful helper, Mrs. Lund has been very ill all week so the paper is a little short. Death keeps on playing hav-oc with our subscription list We wish the silent messenger would go to some other paper and leave us alone. Historian Andrew jenson has had his kind and sympaihetic voice stilled and we shall miss himmuch Mr L C. Pope of 43 East 2nd So , passed away on the 19th. He got much mental and spiritual food from the paper, and we wish we could keep on forward ing it to him. Our good friend Mrs Marie Fovslund of 34 So. Main street, passed away Mon-day and we shall greatly miss her annual visits. So long as men like Wm F Perohon, the Paint and Wall Paper dealer, comes in and proves his faitn by his works. we shall feel like everlastingly carrying on There are few better men Dywheie. When you need anything in his line go to 339 So. State street. R T. Jarcline likes the paper and reads it every week. His visits are always welcome. Dr Francis Kirkham called ' s a name the other day one that is eas to bear but hard to live up to I hat of Latter Day Saint Hesajs our editorials are inspiring. Senator Lawrence E. Nelson will address the Open Forum in (he City County Building at 7:3 0 Saturday evening Nov. 29 on a Monetary and Agricultural Program. Have you read "Seven Years That Change the World" and 'Peace and Plenty For You" by Wing Anderson? Then send for a free application blank to be-o-a Kosmon Pioneer, to this paper. Progressive Labor League meets every Tuesday night at Ci tvaiidCounty Bldg. THE NEXT NINE YEARS Aw Analysis and a Prophecy by Wing Anderson ' ' First Printing, July 1938 Modern Science is rapidly regaining much of the cosmolog-ica- l knowledge possessed by the ancients. It is now known that I the weather and sunspot cycle is a period of eleven years. It is assumed that the major weather cycle is twenty-tw- o years. In this, however, science is mistaken. The major weather cycle is one of thirty-thre- e years. Thirty-thre-e is the time of a generation of man, there being three generations to a hundred years. Every ninety-nin- e years great spiritual manifestations oc-cur. Every three thousand years is a cosmic cycle during which civilization rises and falls. ' s Every twelve thousand years great earth changes take place. . Twelve thousand years ago Atlantis sank in the Atlantic-Twenty-fou- r thousand years ago the Continent of Pan or Mu sank into the Pacific. Twenty-fou- r thousand years is the ap-proximate length of th sidereal day or length of time it takes our planet to traverse the twelve stations of the Zodiac. We may expect a major earth change within the next nine years with a probability that the map of the continents will assume a far different appearance. We are in a time of the overlap of a twenty- - four, a twelve and a three thousand year cycle, a time when the planet changes its center of gravity and rolls upon its axis, as an apple will roll over in a tub of water. After this change occurs we may find areas now sea bottoms have become mountain plateaus and inhabited areas of the earth may then be at the bottom of the sea. That this change has taken place several times in the earth's history is testified to by every finding of the geologists. We know that polar ' regions were once tropic and areas now tropic were once cov-ered with ice. Sea shells are found on the mountain tops and coal and oil under the sea. The many earthquakes that have visited the earth in late months are warnings that the earth is feeling restless and may soon roll over. Plato proclaimed mathematics as the basis of all science. "All things are numbers and through numbers the plan on which the Creator works will be revealed." The first objective spiritual phenomena recorded in recent centuries occurred March 31, 1848. Every number has its own significance. He who knows the meaning of each number, can, by analysis of a number or date into its separate parts, determine its meaning. One is the source from which spring all other numbers. One is emblematical of the All One, the Creator, who, by dividing ' Himself into an apparent two, became the positive and nega-tive forces of the universe; light and darkness; heat and cold; male and female; and every other pair of opposites! Three is the offspring of two; the positive and negative give birth to neutral which is neither positive nor negative but partakes of each. The father and mother may have either a boy or a girl child, or both, and each child will inherit some of the charac-teristics of both the father and mother. Hon. B. H. Roberts Knew And Yearned For Its Coming The late B H. Roberts knew that a new and higher ec-onomic order was the birthright of humanity and his great heart yearned for its coming. The following spoken in 1933 should command attention; "The people are being placed in a position to construct a new economic policy-fo- r a New Age to take the place of the capitalistic system and its spirit wherein shall exist more equality, more justice, a policy wheie there shall be no more consistent division of the conjoint production of labor and cap tal, whose wealth shall not forever flow into possesion of one while ninety and nine have empty hands. "The economics of the New Age will also recognize that man in order to be even approximately equal in mental de-velopment; in intellectual attainments, which is their right"" limited only by tiie native capacity of each; also to be eq-q- al in the things of the spirit they must be somewhat eq-ual in material things, for these latter minister to the form-er and are so necessary to their attainment that they may not be denied. How may one be brave and generous, have the sense of freedom, be noble in sentiment and fearless in action, if all his energies are absorbed in obtaining a bare livelihood and. harassed by anxieties about keeping his job in order to provid a scant and precarious livelihood for himself and his immediate dependents, threatened cons-tantly by the pair of human horrors advan-cing helpless age and unfed want " m - EDITOR PROGRESSIVE OPINION : Seems to me whenever we have an emergency the capital and labor bosses are the first ones to yellj about democracy. If their sys'em of exacting a trechorous power, such as they now have, stands for democracy it is time we are doing away with it. According to the "Soviet Powwer", by Hewlet Johnson, the Russians have not been hamstrung at all by a few greedy capitaliits and treacherous labor exploiters. So long as the capatilists own all the resources and Uncle Sam fights for them, 'and so long as the labor bosses and agita'tors can live in all the luxuries of the land by exacting dues from, their members we will never have democraey. Whenever the people want government ownerahip of resources they can have it. That will hep to do away withthe parasies in both powers- - R. M. Brandon We have entered the era when mankind has attained its maturity. It will be an age of world unity when man will recognize every other man as his brother, regardless of creed or color. The extreme nationalism manifested at this time is a sign of the last days of exclusiveness. Selfishness, both indi- - vidual and national, will pass out in a welter of blood and the suffering of the next nine years will teach mankind, as no other lesson could, that we are all in the same boat and will sink or save ourselves according to our actions and reactions, each to the other. We entered the new cosmic cycle in the year 1848. The dawn of the new era is not yet. The light of the new day is still nine years hence. The time until 1948 is that darkest hour before the dawn. It was in or about 1 848 that events took place which would within three generations, eliminate barriers of every descrip-tion to world intercourse and commerce. Gold was discovered in California, leading to the building of transcontinental rail-roads and the settlement of the whole country. Japan was opened to the nations and China became the mecca for white imperialists. The year 1848 was a year of wars and revolutions. The peoples of the world seemed to sense that a new era was at hand. The second French Revolution occurred, leading to the establishment of the republic. Revolutions also took place in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italian States and China. There seems to be no date in history upon which hang so many wirs, revolutions and revolutionary reforms as are to be found cen-tered around 1 848. ' The missing factor of prophecy has been found, in the year 1848, for this date gives us a known point in time from which to work. By the application of the cycles used by the ancients, in their time-table- s of prophecy, we should be able to prove or disprove this date as being the first year of the new age. The cycles used by the ancients are 11, 33, 99, 200, 3,000, 12,000, and 24,000 years. Eleven years is the minor, thirty-thre- e the major weather cycle. Dr. Harlan True Stetson, astronomer and research as-sociate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in his recent book SUNSPOTS AND THEIR EFFECTS FROM THE HUMAN POINT OF VIEW, piles up an imposing array of evi-den-on the effect of sunspots on human behavior, business, radio, sunlight, magnetism, power, growing things, and the flight of carrier pigeons. Watchmen. What of Tomorrow? If any have faith in the future let them show it now. We express our own faith as follows. and this expression is not only ideal but practical and possible, but cannot be attained until mankind is lifted to a higher spiritual and moral plane. The earth will ba made far more beautiful than it is and made manifold more bountifully productive. The choieest grains will chase away the tares, and a new wealth of flowers will rout the thistles and thorns. Disease shall be conquered and man shall become more highly developed and go about more erect and more ladiant. Poverty will be unknown and there nevermore shall be seen any spectres of hunger and ragg and cold. Every man shall serve according to his capacity and in the work he likes. Every woman shall be secure and happy in a cozy home of love and abundant life. Every child in the best of schools or romping about on the finest play grounds. Gold transmuted into goodness and nobleness, and precious jewels worked into physical, mental and spii irual beauty. War outlawed and impossible. No exploitation, no robbery, no. violence. Justice and freedom everywhere. All things and all people in harmony, and over all the benediction of divine favor. It is comingl We can hear it, feel it, see It! NOTICES FOR AGED PEOPLE TOWNSEND CLUB MEETS The local Townsend Club No. 1, meets at The Legion Hall, 4 04 So. West Temple St., every Friday night at 7:30. A social dance fol-lows the meeting. All invited. OLD AGE PENSION MEETS The Utah State Old Age Pen-sion and Assistance group meets weekly as follows: ' Wednesday evening at 7:30, at City Hall, room 404 Every Thursday at 2 p. m. at 41 Post Office Place. Come one, come all. BRIEFS . . By Baakhage In Bhk years the Civilian Conser-vation corps has brought 100,000 il-literates to the Fourth Grade level |