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Show Review o2 Labor A.cti vitied -- Hews and Comment By M. I. T. J ! 0 EDUCATE ORGANIZE . The Friend of Labor? Every now and then one meets a person who claims to be a friend" of labor, but you never see them express their friendship COOPERATE In deeds. In the Utah state legislature there are several persons who claim to be friends of labor but they fail to vote for labor measures. I was amused when II. B. 4, the up compensation revision bill, was for a vote, Representative Mon-so- n of Salt Lake county, in explaining his vote, said he was a friend of labor and for this reason he would vote against the bill that was sponsored by labor, because in his opinion it was not a good bill for labor. lie voted against the bill that was sponsored by labor and supported by all labor mem-ber- s of the legislature. Representative Monson is a dentist, and in his capacity he desires to dictate to labor what is good and bad for labor. And as a benefactor and friend of labor he votes against bills that are sponsored and supported by all labor. This is not the kind of friendship labor desires. If labor sponsors a bad labor bill it is labor's own business, and not the business of a dentist or a lawyer to show its faults and work and vote against it. Watch out for these pretending friends! Actions count more than mere SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. MARCH f 1935. VOU V. NO. 35. 0.4 IS NOW IN SENATE statement comes from the legislators who get up to argue on a bill under discussion when they start in these words, I have not made up my mind if I am going to vote for and this bill or against it, but then continue to give advice to the rest of the members of the house regarding the bill. IIow in the world can you expect the rest of the legislators to take the advice of one who does not himself know how he is going to vote on the question. This kind of discourses are a mere waste of valuable time and at the expense of the taxpayers. And inconsistent indeed! Outstanding Member There are splendid men and women in the lower house of the Utah state legislature, but one of the outstanding members is Stanley N. Child of Salt Lake county. Representative Child is a stulip service! dent and a thinker. He does not on any quesgo off Inconsistency on the Around the legislative halls one tion. If he says anything himself he has prepared arsubject frequently hears inconsistent for the occasion. guments, talks and remarks. (Continued on page 2) About the most inconsistent half-cocke- d" ASK QUICK ACTION IN SUPPORT OF McCARRAN AMENDMENT been the policy of the American Federation of Labor to make a general appeal for support of pending legisla-tio- if unless such legislation is likely to have a vast public sig-nlean ce. The proposed McCarran amendment to the $4,800,000,000 reWork Relief bill does have that significance. Its retention ib of all welfare the wage to garded as of paramount importance earners and to the progress of the nation. You should, therefore, communicate at once with your United States senators and with your representative in congress, urging them to support the McCarran amendment establishing prevailing wage rates in the Federal Work Relief isbill. The only time that this can be effective NOW. A telegram is preferable, but a letter or even a postcard will do. An impor tant thing is to ACT RIGHT NOW. It has not n, MAY CBIE TO VOTE MONDAY THE DIRECT PRIMARY LAW industrial Compensation Bill Approved By Lower House Utah is still one of the three backward states which cling to the old caucus and convention system of nominating party candidate for county, state, and national offices. Forty-fiv- e states of the Union have a direct primary law in one form or another. Utah is the only state west of the Mississippi river The Vote Was 45 to 11 The Bill Includes Occupational Disnominating its candidates under the old convention system. eases and Increases Eliminates There is a bill in the lower house introduced by Representatives Compensation Benefits Bletzacker and Bosone, providing for the nomination of public officials Private Insurance Companies Makes Industrial Comby direct primary election. It is known as II. B. 192. mission Through a Premium Tax of 4 Per The Democratic state platform adopted in the 1934 Democratic Cent On Insurance. Compensation convention at Provo says: We pledge our legislature to a careful study of experiences in other states in connection with the direct priHouse Bill No. 4, introduced by Stanley N. Child, Democrat, of mary, and to act in accordance with the facts which such survey es Salt Lake county, aa principal sponsor, which proposes important tablishes. The sponsors of II. B. 192 have studied the direct primary laws amendments to the state industrial act, was passed by the house of of a number of states, and after a thorough study took the Idaho pri- representatives Friday afternoon by a vote of 45 to 11, with four abmary law and wrote the proposed law to suit Utahs conditions, pat- sent and not voting. The of the bill with Mr. Child are: Mrs. Bosone, Paul terned after the Idaho measure. After what happened in the. district caucuses and the state con- Feterson, Mrs. Maeser, Mr. Ilall, Mr. Lindstrom, Mrs. Gibson, Mr. Mr. Selvin, Mr. Marthakis, T. W. Jensen, Mr. Jones, Mrs. Albert vention last year, we have every reason to claim that Utah needs a direct primary election law, and needs it badly. The experience of Jensen, and Mr. Spence. The Vote On House Bill No. 4 the forty-fiv- e states having direct primary laws has been toward a The final vote on the measure was as follows: better and more progressive officialdom both in the state and nation. For Aird, Allred, Anderson, Bennion, Bletzacker, Bosone, Bowler, States which have adopted primary election laws have not gone Boyle, Bryan, Child, Cook; Cornwall, Doty, Edman, Farr, Gibson, nail, back to the old convention system. The people in general in these Hendricks, Holbrook, Iloldaway, Holley, Hummer, Joseph W. Jensen, states are strong for the direct primary regardless of the claims of Mrs. Albert Jensen, T. W. e Jensen, Jones, Lamoreaux, Larsen, Lindthe wardheelers and machine politicians. No doubt, H. B. 192 will have opposition, but this opposition is strom, Low, Macfarlane, Maeser, Marthakis, Maw, Mitchell, Monson, J. R. Peterson, Paul M. Peterson, Selvin, Sorenson, Spence, TTiackeray, coming principally from the wardheelers and machine politicians. If Utah is going to rid itself of politics controlled by vested in- Theobald, Whiting and Speaker Granger. Against Gammeter, Murdoch, Nicholes, Olsen, Pectol, Richards, terests, it must adopt a direct primary law. Without a direct primary law, the people of Utah will have but Romney, Slaugh, Swapp, Twitchell and Winder Absent Holmes, Kiefer, Luke and Taylor little to say as to whom shall be the candidates of the various political Final Action parties. Final action came after a whole Those who believe in a New Deal and a square deal in Utah politically, be they Democrats, Republicans, or whatever minority day spent in reading the bill, adopting amendments offered by party, will agree that we must pass a direct primary election law. Representative Child, and voting Self-Sustaini- The greatest piece of class legislation that has ever been duced in the legislature of Utah is the liquor bill proposed by the mittee of 49, in the original H. B. 41. This bill has all the earmarks of fanatical prohibitionists and legal representatives of large hotels and brewery companies. If the bill were passed, in the form it was proposed by the committee of 49, it would be the biggest mistake of the age, nay, it would not be a mistake, but it would be a blunder of the worst type. If liquor is to be sold by the drink, it should not be confined to just a few larger hotels and cafes, but it should be extended so that without distinction every hotel and every cafe would have the privilege of serving liquor by drinks. If monopoly were given to two or three hotels, it would be too bad. There are so many bad features in H. B. 41, that even a child can see that it is class legislation. The provision to eliminate advertising, even of beer, which is considered a beverage, hits Utah publications, billboards and advertising agencies. Under this provision it would rob one of Utahs greatest industries, the printing industry, of considerable income derived from advertising. This revenue which would benefit Utahs printing industhe state of Utah. try would be diverted to outside publications covering The printing industry of Utah has helped to make Utah what Utah is. This industry is paying heavy taxes in Utah. H. B. 41 proposes to punish an industry which is second to none in this state. By all means, we urge the legislators to proceed with care. Consider everything. And provide for this state the best possible liquor measure which shall be free of graft, of class distinction, and which will not penalize Utahs own pay rolls and taxpayers. Do not act hastily and with prejudice. Great Basin Authority Bill Passes Lower House 46 to 11 Representative Lamoreaux Leads a Splendid Fight For the Measure, Which Is Considered a Great Forward Step In the Development of Utahs Great Resources RepresenAll Labor Memtative Macfarlane Led the Opposition bers of the House Voted for the Bill. Basing his talk on the premise velt. He read from the Electric that whoever controlled the cheap World, a publication which he claimed was an official mouthpower sources of the state of Utah controlled the destiny of the peo- piece for the electric industry of the nation, to the effect that ple of the state, Warwick C. Lam- Roosevelts power was policy oreaux, Democrat of Salt Lake, for control. public clearly Monday launched his fight for the Urges State Need creation of the Great Basin auMr. Lamoreaux, in the course of thority, a counterpart of the Tennessee Valley authority now func- his address, brought out that the Great Basin authority was necestioning in the south. Mr. Lamoreaux devoted the en- sary because Utahs vast mineral tire morning to the presentation of resources could be developed only his speech and made liberal use of by cheap power and that this charts, maps, and editorial com- cheap power must be available in ment. the near future if the huge alunite Grant Macfarlane, Democrat of deposits in southern Utah were to Salt Lake City, led the opposition be developed and the aluminum to the bill, and painted a much dif- refined in Utah. ferent picture than did the author There is in the state of Utah of the measure. the worlds largest known deposit Mr. Lamoreaux clung tenaciousof alunite ore, valued variously at ly to the trail already started by anything from a half a million to the T. V. A. and made frequent a billion dollars, Mr. Lamoreaux references to the power program said: If this deposit is to be- of President Franklin D. Roose ( Continued on page 3) ng All-re- d, old-tim- down vicious amendments offered by a few enemies of the measure. The various provisions of the bill were thoroughly discused, while it was under consideration. The principal provisions of the Nation-wid- e Referendum of Governors Shows Overwhelming Sentiment bill, as outlined by Mr. Child, are for Direct Primary these: Extension of Remarks (1) Establishes an administra of tive fund for the Btate industrial commission through a premium tax HON. LOUIS LUDLOW of 4 per cent on compensation in of Indiana In the House of Representatives surance. ? r OccupdllOnaTinSeaseS'' Tuegda.. janMrj? Mr. LUDLOW. Mr. Speaker, duripg the last few days I have had (2) Provides for the payment of ositive and visual evidence that the doctrine of rule by the people, compensation to victims of induso passionately cherished and maintained by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew trial diseases. The compensable Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roose- diseases are enumerated in the bill. velt, is not a dead letter in this country, but is still a living, vital, (3) Increases compensation benefits from 60 to 66 3 per cent of motivating philosophy. I have canvassed the Governors of all of the States to ascertain average weekly salaries; increases how they individually stand and how their States stand on the direct the minimum compensation rate primary for nominating candidates for public offices, as compared from $7 to $9 a week and the maxwith the old, archaic, reactionary, n convention system, and imum from $12 to $18 a week. I find, to my great delight, that the direct primary is universally the (4) Requires that except in the favored method. Looking over the replies which have come from case of all compensaGovernors all over the Union, I find that they echo the immortal prin- tion insurance must be taken with ciple enunciated by Thomas Jefferson more than a hundred years aero the state insurance fund. when he said: (5) Liberalizes the compensation The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of schedule in case of loss of sight; any government, and to protect its free expression should be its first dismemberment of finger, hand, object. arm, leg, etc. In taking this Nation-wid- e referendum, my purpose was to bring (6) Places the responsibility of out m bold relief the true status of the primary in America. Only taking out compensation insurance one solitary Governor of a State that has the him-se- lf primary expressed in opposition to that method of making nominations, and that one A VERY IMPORTANT BILL is the Governor of Michigan. With that exception, sentiment among the Governors is unanimous. Every Democratic Governor who expressed his views was for the primary and against the convention which passed the H. B. 4, by Stanley N. Child and system. the state senate. is before 45 of to vote a house 11, last lower Friday by The general opinion of the Governors, as in letters law. expressed state amends the This bill compensation received, is that repeal of the primary would be a backIt is an important measure because, if it becomes a law, its beneward step. The Governors of the various States are reactionary, thus on record as fits will affect every man, woman and child in this state. being overwhelmingly in favor of the primary system of making nomIt increases benefits to the injured and maimed and their widows inations for public offices and in opposition to the convention system and orphans and will mean greater purchasing power and more busiIndiana Will Not Fail the Nation to the business interests, and greater demand for the products of ness there been has A1? Speaker, talk that in this year 1935 Indiana might lead a march of States back into the old reactionary camp where the farm. The provisions of the bill are of benefit to all taxpayers, because special privilege flourishes, and where, in the old days, pampered interests contributed to all of the campaign funds and law will make the State Industrial commission the manipulated the conventions of all parties so as to nominate their trusted and this means that in the future, there would be no requests for apfavorites on every ticket. They could not lose! I do not place any dependence in propriations from the general fund of the state to maintain this comthese reports. mission. I do not believe that Indiana is going to put itself in the Because the bill eliminates private stock and casualty companies position of the Irishman with whom the entire regiment is out of step. I do from writing compensation insurance and places these risks with the not believe that Indiana is going to proclaim itself out of harmony state insurance department, it means another saving for the state, with the great national chorus. I do not believe that Indiana, the State counties and communities. A number of private casualty companies (Continued on page 4) have folded up and left the injured and the widows and orphans holding the bag and left them on the relief rolls and subject to charity of the counties and cities. And this, naturally, was additional expense to the taxpayers and citizens of the state. The guardianship of the widows and orhans and the injured naturally belongs to the state. H. B. 4 places this guardianship where it properly belongs, i. e., with the State Industrial commission. Heretofore, Utah compensation insurance has been divided three handled by the d by private ways. Coal Processes cities a smokeless fuel to help them companies, and d by the State Insurance department. Regard The lower house convened as a combat their smoke nuisances. less of the hoggishness of the private insurance companies who have committee of the whole Monday Miss Hickman said H. B. 30 pro- gone after the cream of the business, and refused to write poorer risks, noon and listened to addresses in vides the method by which every leaving these less desirable risks with the State Insurance department, behalf of H. B. 30, Great Basin au- section of the state would come in the State Insurance department has done fairly well, and at the presthority, by L. C. Karrick, a com- for greater development along in- ent time has a surplus of $180,000 on hand for the protection of the bustion engineer, and Miss Laura dustrial and agricultural lines. unfortunates. Hickman, representing the Asso' The proposed insurance law permits with financial ciated Civic clubs of Southern H. H 212 Passed eliminates but the to continue their insurance, compensation Utah. The Lower House passed without ability of it With elimination companies, private gives companies. private Mr. Karrick discussed the sec- a dissenting vote H. B. 212, by the cream of the business handled by them to the State Insurance detion of the bill which would enable Representative Bletzacker. which means that the State Insurance department will the authority to plan for the proThe purpose of the bill is to en- partment, more substantial reserve fund for the care of those injured a iuild up of coal Utah for the pur- able municipal power plants to n cessing and for the support of the widows and orphans of those industry, pose of producing a smokeless fuel, help each other by permitting the leads killed accidentally in industry. families of and utilizing the petroleum and construction of cent Four of all of the premiums paid to the State Insurance per other of coaL systems. At the present time the fund, as well as four per cent of the premiums of the Utah has an inexhaustible sup- only way they can get stand-b- y s, ply of coal and other service is to purchase from the pri- will go to the administration fund of the Industrial commission, makhe said, which can be made vately owned powtT companies, or ing it Without fail, contact your state senator by letter, telegram, teleto yield a rich variety of install auxiliary syscnis at great through the carbonization expense. Mr. Blatzackr said that phone, or personally, and urge him to support this important measure. process. This would give Utah By all means, H. B. 4 must pas3 the state senate. (Continued on Pag? 4) '' -- WARNING TO 'THEXEGISEATOR Price: 5 Cents Per Copy 2-- boss-ridde- self-insure- rs Observations Made in (he Legislative Halls of Utah self-insure- One-thir- one-thi- rd one-thir- self-insure- inter-connecti- rs ng self-insure- rs, hydro-carbon- self-supporti- |