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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. JUNE 16. 1939 Page 4 Hewc Edlfttontoll IPage n2 Tlhe HJtolh. ILjalbir to balance the budget, business would stop, tax revenues would fall and the budget would not be bal (Continued from page 3) anced. It is all nonsense that the has been announced by Senator national debt should remain below (Continued from page 1) James E. Murray of Montana, co some mythical level. Debt must sponsor of the measure aimed expand if business is to expand, esaviation manufacturers, 77 per cent. at least three million providing pecially ours. We should express Scores in other lines showed increased net earnings to the WPA jobs during the next fisca our dissatisfaction with tendency extent of 50 per cent and slightly less. in the National Government to deyear. C, Labor's crease Retail sales were characterized as exceptional." Mont League, expenditures." I. 0., and a number of A. F. L. the in & the first Co. Ward had highest profit quarter gomery have already endorsed the NEVER THE DOLE firms history. First quarter sales of Marshall Field 8c Co. unions bill. is eminently sensible, and it should make those who think otherwise think twice." NEWS AND COMMENT IS THE NEW DEAL HAMPERING BUSINESS RECOVERY? Non-Partis- an SANITARY HOUSING FOR MIGRANT FAMILIES The Farm Security Administration has announced that bids of general contractors for construction of a migratory labor camp at Farebaugh, Madera county, California, were opened in San Francisco June 14. The camp will house nearly 300 transient families in metal or wooden shelters and 48 more permanently located families in apartment-type labor homes. Opening of the bids represent the .latest step in a FSA building program which will eventually provide sanitary housing for more than 3500 migrant families in California. Other thousands will be taken care of at camps now being built in Arizona, Texas, Washington, Oregon and Idaho, where agriculture also requires a large supply of seasonal labor. Construction bids for a camp near Yuma, Ari- equaled their entire trade volume of 1938. Record breaking The Pathfinder," a national also was the net earnings statement of Sears, Roebuck & Co. EVERYBODY VERSUS in weekly magazine published for April. Sales of furniture, pianos, and all food products, ONE DAY Washington, D. C., and having electric power, air conditioning, all metals, textiles, drugs, Leonard Lyons relates that Ken oyer a million circulation, in a lead same the those for neth Simpson, New York GOP.na ing editorial says: clothing in all grades, and soap surpassed "Among the many plans being quarter last year, as did also car loadings and steel shipments. tional committeeman, confided: offered to revamp our presThomas J. Watson, president, announced that sales of In- "The trouble with our party is ent relieftoday there is one that system, we everybody with us deserves no consideration four that thehave ternational Business Machines Corporation in the first whatRooseAs voters. for except This ever. would is the months of 1939 were the best volume in companys history. that plan velt, we've succeeded already in Even the railroads were improving, gains of the Union Pa- getting everybody against him 364 substitute the dole or the handout :por work relief. cific being 20 per cent in the west and the New York, New days a year but not on election "After these many years in day." Haven 8c Hartford 14.3 per cent in the east, over 1938. which we have cared for millions Yet the gentlemen who meet every spring to speak for the SPENDING POLICY UPHELD unemployed, we are experienced enough to know that the system of Chamber of Commerce of the entire country completely ignored BY BANKERS PRESIDENT relief is sound in principle work these glowing figures. Instead they charged the government at the system of the dole is zona, will be opened next week, and while (Orval Adams, Salt Lake City, for another in the Washington with having placed every, possible obstacle in the totally unwholesome. The hand- specifications please take note.) southeast of the state are bethis So insincere part of was reindictment, even is when it startlingly path progress. generous, "You bankers should explain to out, advertised. One Arizona camp the country the economic necessity duces a man to the status of a beg-- ; ing resembling to a remarkable degree editorials in is already operating at Agua Fria. and destroys morale, Republican journals, as to evoke the following scathing for government "spending," said E. raring pauper Plans envisaged for California C. Love, president of the Okla- 'lie job is at least a job and it the Farm comment in the Scripps-Howar- d by newspapers: Security Administrahoma Bankers, at their recent con- mips a man maintain his tion call for erection of 352 labor If the U, S, Chamber of Commerce really spoke for vention. "If it were stopped now American business then the resolutions adopted by this organ"Those who favor the dole as a homes, 1063 shelters and 2032 tent This includes 13 stacheap way out, those who would platforms. ization at its Washington meeting would have to be written, and three mobile camps. tionary like to replace work relief with it, down as a calamity to the country. For if American business AtrUiiJ MAIyL A either lack, the ability to see beyond as a whole were as blackly, hopelessly reactionary as these res- - COMPLAINT Best Wishes to Labor dollar signs or care nothing at all A olutions would make it appear, the Roosevelt Administration for social values. It is reassur the mass of could claim itself justified in fighting business to a knockout. WALKER - HINER Editor Utah Labor News: Sec- ing to know that realistic. As a more is Americans What the Chamber demanded was death to the whole New tion 26 of the Old Age pension law recent Gallup poll indicated, 89 AGENCY Deal. As a climax to stupidity, it called for outright repeal of says, "In case the amounts approcent of our voting citizenry per to Old the assistance Age law which now requires a minimum wage in priated the Wage-Hou- r wants the principle of work relief Life - Health - Accident are not sufficient to give to fund no matter what political week interstate industry of $1 for a on the ground of all retained, Insurance applicants and recipients the changes take place in 1940. This far business We believe most as men are impracticability. maximum assistance intended by General Agents attitude of the Chambers this act, the grants to all recipients from agreement with the stone-ag- e shall be proportionately reduced by UTAH - IDAHO resolution writers as we are from agreement with the THE AT WELCOME, whatever is necessary percentage Wage-Hou- r pronouncement of the American to keep within Mutual Benefit Health & Acthe appropriation cident Association Newspaper Publishers Association convention in New York last for Old Age assistance purposes. ultra-conservati- ve self-respe- 1 44-ho- ur back-ward-looki- month." What Now, Dr. Townsend? r ng Some nine months ago because much more than a million dollars of sales tax fund had been appropriated to other state agencies for which it was never intended, a cut of 20 per cent was made on the allowances of the needy aged taking about $70,000 monthly out of the A few days channels of trade. since the governor restored $475,-00- 0 of this fund. It is now rumored that instead of restoring the 20 per cent cut in pensions J. W. Gilman, now only a state employe, plans without statutory authority of any kind to create a revolving fund with this restored money. As the old people are rapidly organizing and consolidating for the purpose, there is little doubt that this action on Mr. Gilmans part will precipitate a supreme court action. It was decided at a recent meeting of the aged organization to consolidate every resource for' the purpose of challenging in the courts hereafter every illegal action of the State Board of Public Wel- The Townsend issue has been officially settled so many times that it would be highly premature to think that its ghost is finally laid by the adverse vote in the House. On the a historic document for campaign purposes, the expected happened and the pension forces took it on the chin again by 302 to 97 votes. Where were the many Re publicans'who made promises to Townsendites last fall? They were right in there voting no in accordance with an old G. O. P. custom of promising all but delivering as little as possible. ' That the e pension issue will continue to be a live until a generous pension measure is finally passed is certopic tain. Too many millions of persons, old and young, are vinced.that this nation is big enough to care decently for its old folks for this issue to be put on the shelf by Congress. Sales-ta- x features of the Townsend plan make it objec tionable to Administration economists. But the New Deal owes a debt to Dr. Townsend, nevertheless, for without the sentiment worked up behind his movement the social security law might never have been passed. The present agitation also makes sure fare. The writer feels assured that quick enactment of the bill liberalizing the social security act. and organization of the old unity One aftermath especially interests liberals. In the last folks will yet create a law abiding campaign Dr. Townsend, a highly gullible old fellow, fell hook, welfare board in Utah. PAUL H. line and sinker for G. O. P, promises. Washington wonders, ALLRED, chairman, Utah State what now, Dr. Townsend? 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