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Show '"S' Review V T- - Acttivitieo ofi ILiGiboir r?rsj i tee rconrs pate EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE YOU V; NO. 43. Price: Y, UTAH. MAY 3. 1935. SALT LA 5 Cents Per Copy P I OUR GREAT PRESIDENT Mews and Comment THE LEADER OF THE HOUR Booze Peddlers Show By M. I. T. In Done i President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is still the great leader of the hour. There is no doubt about that. The American people, regardless of creed, color, and partisan politics, looked upon Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 as the Moses who would lead the depressed people of this beloved land of ours into normalcy. Because of the faith the people had in Roosevelt, they elected him President of this nation by an overwhelming majority. Thus President Roosevelt came into leadership of our national government on March 4, 1933, amidst wreck and ruin. Financial institutions of the nation were crashing about our heads. The confidence of the people in all walks of life was all but completely destroyed. The people had lost confidence in about everything but the government itself, and their confidence in the government was being seriously shaken, with business paralyzed, the channels of trade and commerce hopelessly clogged, energetic farmers and workers losing their farms and homes by the thousands, business bankruptcy on every hand, with the army of unemployed increasing by rapid leaps and bounds and the wage standards of those employed having been hammered down to a merciless point by the avarice and greed of the privileged few who were supposed to be the saviours of the people. In short, when the New Deal administration of government went into power, it found a nation on the rocks of ruin and destruction, and rumblings of desperation and despair were seriously threatening red fires of rebellion and revolution. But through the peerless leadership and courageous statesmanship of President Roosevelt, in cooperation with the congress of the United States, the nation has made rapid strides upward on the road to national recovery, and at last we can feel reasonably sure that we ' are once more on solid ground. The faith that the American people had in Roosevelt in 1932, and 1933, and 1934, is still unshaken in the year 1935. Despite the stories, both in the Democrat and Republican parties, and the propaganda of the reactionary Liberty league, in their efforts to disrupt the confidence of the American people in the leadership of our president, and in his program of human rights above property rights, to bring about iccovery from the lowest depths of chaos in which he found this nation when he took the reins of our government, the people of America are still faithful to the president. Much . a dverse propaganda, has been broadcast. by big. buiuness ...... and their mouthpieces, about the social security program of President Roosevelt. But regardless of this, the American people have unstinted faith in the wise and constructive leadership of the president. The millions of Americans who heard the President Sunday night explain his works and security programs, no doubt, were thrilled with the outspoken pronouncement of the policies of the national leadership of this government. It is safe to say that the vast majority of the millions who listened to their national leader were proud that they had faith in him in 1932, and no doubt in the breasts of the majority of the Americans was a prayer of thanks to Almighty God that we still have Roosevelt at the helm of our ship of state, and that as long as he continues in his well defined policies in the leadership of our government, the people of this nation will see a brighter day and a complete social security. Because of the wise and fearless leadership of our President, the people know that every hungry man, woman and child will be fed and clothed, and that as far as possible, those unemployed through no able to work, will be provided employfault of their own, who-arment and a wage in keeping with respectable standards of living. Our prayer is for continued faith in the wise leadership of our President. May the supreme ruler of the universe continue to give him strength, wisdom, and power, in his efforts to make America truly a nation of the free and the brave. Our nation is recovering from chaos, and this recovery will be speedier when the people of the nation lend every possible cooperation to our president, and then, as the president said in his closing words Sunday night, that the faith of the people in our ability to master And for that we can be our destiny . . . will receive a just reward. thankful to the God who watches over America. . PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GIVES PLEDGE OF EFFORT TO END UNEMPLOYMENT In his address Sunday night to broaden the interstate commerce the American .people, over the na- commission and extend its regulaFranklin D. Roose- tion to buses and trucks, and to tional hook-up, velt pledged the country an unstinting effort in the four billion dollar national crusade to destroy enforced idleness. The President asked all citizens to keep a watchful eye that the work program Should be the most efficient and cleanest example of public enterprise the world has ever seen, and laid down a six point program of principles to govern the spending in his work program. He enumerated a series of legislative proposals he expects congress to enact at this session. Security Legislation Topping the list on the program was the Presidents economic security legislation, which already has been passed by the House. The other bills whose enactment he called for were those to extend and revise the NR A; to do away with certain types of unnecessary utility holding companies; to amend the federal reserve banking laws. The president emphatically stated that for the first time in five years relief rolls had declined instead of increased during the winter months, and that they are still declining. The program which the President laid down to govern the allotment of money from the four billion dollar fund are: The projects should be useful. Wages and Labor Projects shall be of a nature that a considerable proportion of the money spent will go into wages for labor. Projects which promise ultimate return to the federal treasury of a considerable proportion of the costs will be sought. Funds allotted for each project should be actually and quickly (Continued on Page 3) Sanies Tone Hotel Rooms NRA Will Continue Despite Senator King of Utah and a handful of other Tories in Liquor Business Attracts Many Salt Lakers Brennan Among the U. S. senate, the NRA will be Those Who Become MFire Water Brokers Resigns As extended and will continue to proChairman of County Democrat Committee Commission tect the American people. Eliminate Should Brokers And Middlemen's Profits And While friends and foes of the NRA have staged some hectic and Buy Direct From Distillers And Thus Make the Price Less For the Consumer, worthy battles in Washington this week, a poll of the senate, taken by press associations, showed that issue with many Whisky and booze seem to be the the recovery act, in some form or in Lake Salt persons vote City. extended. The other, will be Evidently, there must be profits in liquor, judging from the Bum-h- er was 64 to 22. Eight senators did of Salt LakeTs who are going into the liquor brokerage game. not vote. A horde of representatives of liquor houses are occupying luxurious rooms in a downtown hotel, where, it is reported, they are in close Aire Busy Lobbyists contact with another horde of Salt Lakers who have gone into the There is a busy lobby in the naliquor brokerage business for profit. tions capital. An ace among the new brokers, it is reported, is Leonard Brennan, most active lobbyists Among the are those representing the cham- who resigned his post as chairman of the Salt Lake County Democrat bers of commerce. committee, in order to devote all of his time in the brokerage game The chamber of commerce lobby, as a representative of some three whisky concerns. it is reported, is giving wholeAmong those who appear to be in the liquor brokerage business, hearted support to the anti-labare E. W. Pinney, Don E. Ray, Lucian Ray, and others. lobby, power lobby, big packers It is reported that, all told, some 36 agents of whisky and wine lobby, railroad lobby, banking lob- manufacturers are in Salt Lake City, and all of them are anxious to by, and several other varieties of sell their fire water to the Utah mV..,, Time alone will tell whose ;brands lobbies. State commission. Liquor and what brokers will get the . All of these big business lobbies The commissioners have cream of the Utah liquor business. spent are maintained for the express purconsiderable downtime the at Why Brokers pose of passing legislation in the town hotel inspecting samples of Why brokers are allowed to en interest of the rich and to the deall who have them or care to show ter into the liquor game seems to triment of the people. The big business lobbyists are them. In order to enable the be an important question among' outspoken against continuation of agents or brokers to get their the people. the NRA. The most vicious fight is stocks of samples to the hotel, the Many have remarked that a being centered against the passage commission signed releases ad- broker in the whisky business Is of the Wagner Labor Disputes bill. dressed to express companies. (Continued on Page 4) And while the lobby is in Washington, campaign propaganda is r"ic ed ' egainst - IV r stdnt Roosevelt in , the hope that this propaganda will be in such alluring words that it will bring about the defeat of the President next year. On several occasions The Utah employment insurance, work seLabor News has pointed out that curity and health protection. Blocking Progress the Tories, both in the Democrat Senator King promised to supaland in are Republican parties, port and vote for a measure proThe big business lobbies are dobusiliance with the that all codes under the Naunscrupulous ing all in their power to block pro- ness interests to defeat the New viding tional Recovery Act should conDeal of all New gress proposals. week and a Pernicious influences are brought Deal program of President Roose- tain a day. to play in senate and house com- velt. The Democrat Tories in the U. The senior senator from Utah mittees handling important legislation. The railroad, power trusts, S. senate are doing their level promised to support labor disputes and in a vicious way, to scrap legislation, approved and supportbankers, food handlers and labor best, the National Industrial Recovery ed by the American Federation haters are spending money like Act. of Labor. He denounced the water to put over selfish demands. The long smouldering opposiThe railroad lobby is headed by Liberty league which is tion to N R A within handful the its $60,000-a-yeJ. sponsored by rich men who are beleader, J. of Democrat senators lievers in rugged individualism. reactionary former of the Pelley, president Elected on Promises New Haven railroad. The power broke into the open this week when And because of his bitter oppolobby is laboring principally on Senator William H. King of Utah, two fronts. It is seeking to remove no doubt at the behest of the cham- sition of the Liberty league, during practically all the teeth from the ber of commerce, introduced a bill the campaign, he was reelected, Presidents holding company bill, to abolish the recovery adminis- although his vote fell some 30,000 and to hamstring the Tennessee tration and transfer its fundamen- behind the rest of the Democrat tal powers to the federal trades ticket. His Republican opponent Valley authority. The anti-labstarted his campaign on the wrong lobby, made up of a combination of commission. Senator King, as is well known foot, by giving his unqualified enthe National Association of manu-- ( to the people of Utah, is a keen dorsement of the liberty league in Continued on page 2) politician with a glib tongue, who the first two campaign speeches is first class in making promises he delivered in Utah, and this gave P. O. UNIONS to the people, and bad in fulfilling the senior senator from Utah a clearance for his reelection,, alARE ACTIVE the promises made. Fails the People though running behind his ticket. Senator King, to the editor of Senator in was reelected King At a recent meeting of Salt Lake local No. 6 of the National Fed- 1934 because he made absolute The Utah Labor News, and to the eration of P. 0. Clerks, George T. promises to the people of Utah to people of Utah in campaign meetFoutz was elected a delegate to support' the New Deal program of ings, declared that he was in abthe national convention of the Fed- President Roosevelt. Furthermore, solute harmony with the New Deal of President Franklin eration, which meets the first week he made solemn promises to labor programRoosevelt. in September in Atlanta, Georgia. of Utah to support and vote for Delano Senator King made statements Similar promMr. Foutz is the president of No. labor legislation. we were standing face to face that 6. This local is an affiliate of the ises were made by him for supwith a clear choice between proto benefit measures of agriUtah State Federation of Labor, port of did not he and democracy and reactiongressive adculture, and takes an active part in the forget and he urged to vowed He educators. republicanism, ary support vancement of the Utah labor moveto take sides, of the Utah all New Deal measures in behalf people ment. declared that and he, King, was The National Association of of education. and for Labor The The editor Utah democracy, of progressive Letter Carriers will also hold its to return the with News is knows he what people plead durtalking convention in Cleveland, Ohio, to do his best work in the ing the first week in September. about, because Senator King made him States senate for the peoUnited The splendid Salt Lake P. O. band a solemn promise to The Utah state and nation. of this vote would he ple will go- to the Cleveland conven- Labor News that senator promised to senior The National of the extention the tion, and will enter the band con- for workers and. farmthe retenthe give for Act wage and test whicbihas become an annual Recovery pro- ers access to the incomes which event of tbev;Ietter carriers con- tion therein of Section viding for the right to organize they have earned as a right. ventions. V WoTk and Wages Postmaster I. A. Smoot expects and bargain collectively, the proSenator elimthe and labor King said that he was child hibition of to accompany' the band to Cleveto giving the workers and opposed ination unfair of enpraitices. land, and will do his part to of charity. He farmers to Senator pittances supKing musicians Lake promised Salt courage the use all of his would he said that to capture the coveted first prize port social justice legislation proon un page 3) (Continued in the contest. viding for old age pensions, or r Tones Are Opposed to New Deal , . 39-ho- ur 6-h- so-call- ar or . , - 7-- A ed |