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Show T Jx-tx- r " Keview o2 Cuairireirct EveirrtoJUL 7 ox p xtZtn 1937 n 4 EDUCATE ORGANIZE 'n:xJtTF COOPERATE U VOL VII; NO. 51. Price: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. JUNE 25, 1937. uS Per Copy r&MYlMIlAIL: News and Comment Stop 5 Cents r tr ny M. I. T. JMAN RIGHTS VERSUS PROPERTY RIGHTS THE PRESIDENTS STRUGGLE FOR Exclusive Club Mayor Harman V. Pcery of Ogden is a believer in fair play. He does not believe that any explosive club should be allowed to violate liquor and beer laws any more than The supreme issue before the people of America today is ordinary joints. No doubt, under the Human Rights Versus Property Rights. A "visit" to the exclusive Weber club was made by Ogden police on gallant leadership of President Roosevelt the human rights will order of Mayor Peery as a part of prevail, but while the fight is on it will be the fiercest battle in Ogden's citywide checkup on beer our nations history. licenses. The club hasnt had a On one side are arrayed the vast majority of the American I beer license. , HUMANITY SHALL END IN VICTORY We are constantly in support of President Roosevelts pro gram for reorganization of the Federal judiciary. We are for it because it is another step in the progress toward human betterment in this beloved nation of ours. With characteristic energy and with that flaming zeal for justice which has ever marked his conduct in public office, our great President has decided that the time has come to end once and for all the evil of judiciary tyranny in this country. He V Horse Racing hopes to have the courts serve the ends of justice instead o Under Utah statutes horse 'racserving the interests of minority groups and property rights. He bettihg is ing and .hopes to annihilate the absurd and dangerous belief that the banned. But t of the regardless Federal courts are omnipotent and it is rewere statutes there Utah untouchable, and that whatever dedicated to the cause of the people and horse both pariracing they may decide must be the eter- and the welfare of the many. This ported, the mutuel at, betting recently nal law of the land, no matter how paper has enlisted in the cause and Utah state fair the under grounds unwise and how unjust that de- it is the determination of the Utah an the of auspices News in to Labor remain the ranks, cision may be. enforcement lav of organization A Magnificent Crusade fighting to the best of our ability, officers ai d lawyers of Utah and the of until flutters This is a magnificent crusade victory flag states. other western which the President has started over the ramparts, telling the upon and it gives the Utah Labor world of another great triumph News th$ most intense pleasure to for the cause of human rights on horse but when law en- ries know that the vast majority of the And make no mistake about it forcement Sprees pull off some- end in shall this victory President with the struggle heart aTe people thing again it the law then it is a for the Presidents forces. and soul. hImf,rilitetonbet my last 30 The Utah Labor News has been (Continued on page 2) cents that si me of those who par- " pari-mutue- ls Fo'ot-prin'er- s, . . people, who have chosen as their leader that outspoken crat, Franklin D. Roosevelt. On the opposing side are the economic royalists and their paid corporation lawyers, capitalistic press, reactionary senators and members of the house of representatives in congress. The opponents of democracy now, as usual, believe themselves bigger than the mass of the American people. The opponents have piled the underbrush for the purpose of obscuring the real point at issue in the peoples battle for freedom and democracy. Just as in the great election of last November, the op and to clu Pr,ef'r- - of "uri-- to (avoid ,he real a with lot scarecrows men UP which and landscape they hope will divert attention and fool the people. In this they rely upon their allies, the Kept Press. . P'fardles? of anything .else .the President', court reform P,an ,real lssue at stake. It is the genuine key for real in Democracy this country. And because of this the opponents are mustering everything to defeat the Presidents proposal. The opponents never discuss the real issues of judicial usu,P.at,on or the rave injustice which has been dcr.e to the laboring men and women of America, and to the farmers, by arbitrary and unreasonable court decisions over the last half century. The opponents never discuss the fact that if the court had been half as energetic in guarding the rights of plain citizens as It was in protecting the bankers and big corporations, this pres- en fight would never have been waged. Far from it. They wduld prefer hot to talk about those cases at all. They prefer not to discuss the courts action in striking down the original income-ta- x law, the early laws establishing workmens compen sation and employer liability, the original law banning child la bor, and the many court rulings which made the Federal anti trust laws a farce upon the statute books. . mdTtaTOTijUfietUnP0" Labor on Its Forward March; C. I. 0. Is Active C. I. O. Establishing Headquarters In Salt Lake City for Activities In Intermountain States Union Membership Is Grow- ;icipated in the illegal sport at the fair grounds were bitterly op- josed to the horse racing biJ the troduced in tl ; last session egislature. I was for the bill, be- cause I like to see horse flesh in action but I cidot participate in the races illej. ,v iy sponsored by H !aw a Allied Printing Trades' Unions Are Gaining sphalt horse race in Utah until it is le- ' Miners Get Working Agreement Transport Work- - galized. a heer occasional- Shoe Victories For C. I. ers List O. Wins Agreement .ass & U ' Membershio Workers of Oil Workers Union Doubled orTpageVj1 (Continued Under C. I. O. Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Continue In Membership Drive. ing -A- 1 Utah and Intermountain headquarters for the Committee for Industrial Organization will be established in Salt Lake City within a few days, reported James G. Thimmes, field representative of the Steel Workers Organization Committee for the C. I. O., and Varro Jones, recently appointed director of organization for Utah and Colorado for the C. I. O., who spent several days in the city this week to size up the situation here, and to formulate plans for organization activities. Mr. Thimmes said that dozens of requests have been received from workers in Salt Lake City for C. I. O. union organization. Workers here and elsewhere in the intermountain states are not going to be disappointed, said Mr. Thimmes. We are making preparations to start our organization campaign here with full steam shortly. We is progressing nicely, reports J. F. will have a force of organizers in the field to organize all unorganized workers who desire to be organized in local unions affiliated with the C. I. 0. Far from it. The opponents of democracy wont even whisper the fact that in the last half century, the supreme court and other Federal courts have invalidated more than 300 state laws designed to promote the g of men, women and children in industry. That kind of factual language is taboo. The opponents of President Roosevelt and the people never refer to the fact that if the court had not knocked out needed and salutary legislation, perhaps the Hoover depression never would have reached the ugly and destructive proportions that it did. On the contrary, those who assail and condemn the Presi dent prefer not to discuss realities at all. Instead they like to talk about what might happen. The opponents are always painting a sky full of crimson horrors that might take place if certain things should happen under certain conditions at some unnamed future time. They like to wander on in a vague way, murmuring about dictatorial powers, autocratic rule, dictatorship, and other fancied horrors which have no place in the American system of government. Just imagine how silly it js to talk about a man destroying the roots of democracy when he has just been reelected by over 27,000,000 votes, the largest popular majority in the history of well-bein- Rhodes president, and J. M. Melvin, secretary, Salt Lake Typographical union No. 115, who are in charge of the campaign.' Membership applications are be-- 1 ing received constantly to all of the local unions affiliated with the Printing Trades Campaign The organization campaign of Allied Printing Trades Council. the Allied Printing Trades unions (Continued on Page 2) f THE PORK BARREL BLOC the country. So, in considering the fake issues that are being raised by By KATE RICHARDS OHARE (Continued on Page 7) WASHINGTON On the night of June 1, I sat in the gal of the house and watched the split in the Democratic party lery take definite form. The issue is pork. There was nothing dramatic, nothing to stir the emotions, nothing to make the spectators in the gallery realize that they were waching history being made. It was all as thrilling as a Just a borpan of cold dishwater, as intriguing as a dust-moof succession roll calls rethat the loaded Administration ing lief bill with emasculating amendments, earmarking funds, and designed to cut a ghastly gash in relief work. p. As the night session dragged on, one got a dreary sense of inevita cerned, fence-fixin- it was a petty, g as the pork grab. It is no leaders the with broke bility Administration. With tiresome secret that it takes food from the found a monotony each roll-ca- ll solid opposition bloc, approximately 140 congressmen, about 100 democrats and 40 Republicans. Two minds with but single thought, two hearts that beat as one, to harass the Administration and slash an already woefully inadequate relief bill. A Pretty Pork Grab leaders far as the of the Democratic party were con So so-call- ed r tin-hor- n, mouths of starving children to build political machines, and to serve the cement, steel, and contracting interests. The reactionary Democratic bloc, which the Republicans joined not primarily for pork, but to embarrass the Administration, was so frankly a pork grabbing coalition, and the smell was so rank, that no one took the trouble to justify this guerilla war-- ( Continued on page 4) CHEZ LAUDS UTAH MINING INDUSTRY Attorney General Joseph Chez was one of the principal speakers at the Elton tunnel celebration at Tooele on June 16. He lauded the mining industry of Utah. lie said: We are met to celebrate the beginning of a great enterprise the men dream of the tunnel construction of a four-mil- e at a cost of one million dollars. From this enterprise great results will come by the enlargement of shipping facilities for this mineralized area, by the development of an inexhaustible water-suppl- y, not only for the smelting of ore, but to quench the thirst of Tooele valley soil, and thus bring about the culmination of 20 years of farsighted boosters wision of an underground passage between this (Continued on page 3) far-sight- ed Roxy and Star Theaters Are 100 Per Cent Union The Roxy, a big time vaudeville ed Scottys Lunch, 36 East Second and screen picture theater, and the South. Scottys is among the betStar, movie theater, are now union. ter class eating houses of the city. The management of the two theaTom Gilligan, president of Salt ters signed working agreements last week with the musicians, stage employes, and moving picture operators union. This is good news to entertainment lovers who patronize union houses. The Roxy furnishes a stage show daily in addition to first run picNo doubt, both the Roxy tures. and the Star will be benefitted by increased business. Scottys Lunch Union Secretary Startin of Culinary Alliance No. 815 reports a number of additional union houses in Salt Lake City. Among these is report Lake Bartenders union, reports business picking up among the members of his union since the new beer law went into effect. Most of the beer parlors are unionized and this gives employment to the members of the union. Taxi Strike Picketing continues at all downtown taxi stands of the Yellow and Green cabs, and the Grayline Motor Tours. The pickets carry banners placarding these concerns as unfair to organized labor. 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