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Show nt Review Evemta ofl Cuinreirufc .r V" s if ' 'l rrJK in?rt EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. JUNE VOL VIII; NO. 50 1 7i Price: I. T. NET PROFITS OF UTAH COPPER ARE YOU GREAT ENOUGH? :TOUi?D,CTIMS0 You may be the shrewdest bank er in your city but are you great b enough ? You may be the leading merbut are you chant in your town great enough? You may be the best salesman in seven counties but are you great enough? You may ge a great labor leader but are you great enough ? You may be the most noted surgeon in your state but are you great enough ? You may be the most successful farmer in your neighborhood but are you great enough? You may; be the most eminent engineer or architect in the world but are you great enough? You may be the finest house keeper that ever manipulated a but are you vacuum sweeper great enough? (Continued on page 6) Political Outlook i In Utah and U. S. Compiled From Reports of Observers 3DBS&I DEMOCRATS CHOOSE EXECUTIVE BOARD The Utah state Democratic committee meeting. at the Newhouse O "V LABORS LEAGUE NON-PARTISA- N The Political Arm of Progressives Labors political prestige greater than right now as in the nations capitol was never the 75 th congress ended its third and final session Thursday. , d The political influence of the millions of the voters was apparent behind congressional action on most of election day legislation passed at this session, particularly as drew nearer. Outstanding among the gains for labor was favorable action by congress on the wages and hours bill. The bills enacted labor-minde- wideby senate and house differed in were adjusted differences but ly, conference committee, and the bill was passed by both branches of congress Tuesday afternoon. Senator Thomas Leads In the conference committee our own Senator Elbert D. Thomas played an important role. As chairman of Senate Labor committee he was chairman of the joint conference committee on the wages and hours bill and, it is reported, it was through Senator Thomas diploand wise counsel that an macy agreement was reached sooner than expected on this important labor measure. Next to wages and hours, the other big item backed by Labors League was the relief and recovery bill which was steered through the senate shoals for final victory without substantial change. The bill appropriates Non-Partis- an $2,816,905,000 to provide approximately 3,500,000 jobs for the seven months of the fiscal year that be- gins July 1. Labor Served Nation These two items are the only really constructive proposals passed by congress this session. Thus, the Labors League has once more served the entire nation and aided recovery from the depression by taking the initiative in insisting on enactment of these important measures. Unions affiliated with Labor's League, particularly those in the mass industries, were the decisive factors in obtaining congressional action on this legis job-creati- ng Non-Partis- Non-Partis- J an an Per Copy D0TOE30MJ flews and Comment By M. 5 Cents , WALL STREET 1936. Utahs mining industry spent for food, rents and housing, and clothing $26,725,000. In other words, all the workers employed in all of the mines in Utah spent for necessities of life $3,275,000 less than the net profits of one company, the Utah Copper, were in 1937. This should make the reader realize of what depressions are made. Yet the same r company is now laying off its and down its employes closing operations in Bingham canyon, Magna and Arthur, and contributing its full share to the deepening of the present depression. The Utah Copper is not adding to the general unemployment because its business has not been profitable. On the contrary, it has been making record profits, which have left Utah to enrich the greedy stockholders outside of Utah. What then is the trouble, not only in the case of Utah Copper company, but the Silver King Coalition in Park City, and other mining companies that have made huge profits but have closed down their plants and layed off their employes? The trouble very evidently is that when business is good, too much money goes to the few who can use it only for making further profits and too little goes to the workers who produce the wealth, and through them to the multitudes whose necessities keep money in circulation to create ever more demand for the products of industry. The result is that the accumulated wealth of the few be-- , In 1937 the workers in Utah-Coppe- (Continued on page 8) hotel Saturday, elected an executive committee of 23 and gave auW. thority to Chairman Calvin sec Rawlings to appoint the state retary and the treasurer. The exec utive committee will include Chair man Rawlings, and Vice Chairman Mrs. Scott P. Stewart. The 23 committee members were apportioned according to representation in the state senate. They were nominated by state commit tee members from their respective senatorial districts. They are: Harold Reese, Box Elder; Mrs L. E. Nelson, Cache; Ed J. Summit, Rich, Wasatch Daggett and Morgan; Frank A Bundy Jugler and Mrs. Lavina Duchesne P. John Madsen, Weber; and Uintah; W. J. Korth, W. Frank Liston, Parnell Black, Mrs. Alf B Bohling, Mrs. Rose E. Henderson Arthur Marsh and Glen E. Howe Salt Lake; A. O. Ellett and Sylvan W. Clark, Utah; Burke McArthur, Sanpete; Myron Bybee, Sevier, Garfield, Wayne, Kane and Piute; Mrs. Isabelle Redd, Emery, Grand (Continued on page 2) Me-Polin- (Continued from last week) The Utah Copper Company made profits of $30,000,000 in 1937. This was double the amout it made in net profits in ARE THE RENTS TOO HIGH??? ' - Is trust? the' Salt" LakV apartment house owners association a Is this association violating the decisions of the United States supreme court? Why are the apartment rentals in Salt Lake City from 25 40 to per cent higher than in other cities throughout the west? Why have the apartment owners raised their voices against Federal housing laws? Who is keeping Salt Lake City from making further population gains? These questions will be answered in the columns of the Utah Labor News in the near future. Look for them I OUR STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY By John Brophy (Editors Note Mr. Brophy is one of Americas foremost He recounts the workers long fight for freedom in this country, and calls for broad unity of the people against fascism to maintain arid extend that hard-wo- n freedom.) Labor leaders. The Labor movement is the front fighter in the struggle for The battle lines are rapidly be ing drawn for a showdown fight democracy in America today. In the economic field, and in the over one of the central issues in the Dolitical field,, organized labor bears the greatest of all social struggle between the responsibilities in our country the responsibility for the mainlabor-progressi- ve movement and the cohorts of Wall Street. This issue is the integrity of the National Labor Reasons Act. The mutilation or total scrapping of this basic law of abor rights has been the ultimate objective of most of the sharpshooting at progressive legislation carried on so strenuously by Big Business during the past year. On the surface, the Wall Street strategists have frequently appeared to subordinate their efforts to overthrow the Labor Act in favor of such alternative boons to Big Business as the weakening of federal tax pressure on big fortunes and big corporation profits, or the curtailment of relief payments to the unemployed. Beneath the surface, however, the only reason why the drive on the Wagner Act was not openly made head- on was the sincere conviction among influentials in the Street that this question was too hot to handle that wayin comfort. At one time, the magnates thought they had the problems of (Continued on Page 5) tenance and extension of democratic rights. This is an accepted fact. Every progressive, every liberal, every person knows it to be so. The American look the to labor movement to defend their democratic people Fascist rights from the increasing attacks of all orces in the nation. In every place where the struggle goes on whether it is againgt the open Fascism of our few alien Nazis, fair-mind- ed anti-democrat- or against the subtler but no less effective methods of anti-labjusiness and big corporations-thlabor movement is in the front ranks, carrying on and extending the traditions of American free dom, fighting to preserve the free dom the people of America won for themselves in the struggles of generations ago. Labors role in achieving and maintaining democracy is not a new thing. It is in the American tradition. Workers and farmers made the American Revolution. When the war against the English was won, workers and farmers returned to their towns and their villages to carry on the battle for democracy with the Tories and reactionaries who remained. They or e J Z ic. IT fought for, and won, the Bill of Rights.- - They fought against the elements that would have made the new republic another autocracy, not very much different from the English autocracy that had been defeated in revolution. Workers and farmers, together, made our country a democracy with a constitution that democracies a century and a half later accepted as a model. Three generations after the Revolutionary war against England, American workers and farmers fought another great battle for democracy. The history of the antislavery movement in the United States is a story of labor support and labor effort to abolish the (Continued on page 7) |