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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, FEBRUARY 21, 1936. the constitution and the The band did its supreme court. Hitch Old "Well playing by part Bobbin to the Shay, which may Jeffersonian Democrats fall back to "The more these interpreted as powerful support the constitution, the more inclined we are to laugh. Every time one for justice Hughes and a a what of reminded we are Franklin D.' Roosevelt, of them mentions the constitution, just sap hundred people sore spot the constitution was to Jefferson at least that part of it Thirty-fiv- e all but a few Negroes some of us now hold so sacred," says the Journal of Labor of piauded who sat silent in the gallery. T hey Atlanta, Ga. that recall to so anxious the save The hurrah boys, nation, might represented something, something it was John Marshall, a cousin but at the same time a inveterate I that is brewing in the deep south political enemy of Jefferson, who is given credit for the right the- hiut when it comes to nationa Land-pos- e supreme court has to .declare an act of congress unconstitutional. Sup- I leadership, a combination of with and Longii forward Huey moved back or time could be ons principles turned the hands of or Jefferson could have been president during this depression. There is accent cant win in any sort 1 it. Sup-about done field, would have no doubt but that Jefferson something pose under his leadership the NRA, the AAA, and other measures had been declared unconstitutional by the supreme court? Well, we do know what Jefferson would have thought about it, especially if . John Marshall were the chief justice rendering the decision. Jefferson was not such a blind adherent to the constitution which but as political education it would Picture a prevails today that he thought it ought to handicap congress and the hardly make a in. or listening farmer in national with workingman emergencies. dealing president f or wife working-obulwark the as Or the court farmers who be those There may hail the supreme our nation as it takes its stand against judgment of the legislative mans wife. We dont care whether and executive departments. But Jefferson w,as not one of those. Sup- - they leaned toward the receiving in Maine or New Mexico or pose the supreme court had been called upon to pass on the Louisi-lsana purchase, so dear to Jeffersons heart. Wasnt the constitution Mississippi. There is .only one tne orY JI which you can assume that stressed just a little bit there ? uphold Utafj Unhor Established 1929 A MEMBER OF TUB Thia paper receives the American Federation of Labor News Service. ap-whi- ch -- GSM I -- Entered as second-clas- s matter March 28, 1930, at the post office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ... $1.50 Subscription Advertising rates by request. I per annum Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly M. L at .... ed 24 Utah. I South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, I Telephone Was. 2981. I I Publisher Office Manager I THOMPSON M. THOMPSON et IS RUSINESS MAN I1EST QUALIFIED? What is threre about a business man that makes him so desirable Im wondering, Senator Bone POLITICAL OUTLOOK as an office holder? Time and again this question has come to us. I went "whats going to happen It has come recently with more than usual force, hearing so much, c i v il'iza t io n fn the'nexT war. as we have, about the need of business men in governmental positions. (Continued from page 1) you destroy the leisure class What qualifications does a business man possess that are not possessed you destroy civilization, Mr. Mori in a Union League club sort of by just plain, average, Mr. Citizen? Though we have no statistics at gan answered. way the morning after he made hand, it is generally thought that lawyers make up a greater pro- - I when asked by the reporters to his first speech about the dear old He is for Mr, Republican homestead. portion of office holders than any other group. Is the business man I efine the leisure class, Morgan, after a tremendous menta the early settlers and the consti- really a better prospective public servant than the lawyer? Perhaps such a query should bestir some consideration, not only effort, opined that it includet tution. He plumped of the business man, but of the type of man we want for office. Can ai who can afr0rd to hire a maid.' ly in favor of liberty. He wants to balance the budget. He is it be that a successful business man is, on that account, the best possible man to run the government? Is a succesful banker, for example, favor of recovery. He believes m the soil, and he will do right by a better prospect for mayor than a successful lawyer? Is is possible the farmers. And he says it in that a man can make a better governor because he happens to be a capitalist than one who happens to have chosen social service as take the privileged few off the such a nice, clean way that no He is of the under.privileget his field of endeavor? What is there about a merchant that makes backs lawyer can object. n fellow him a better city commissioner than a printer would make? Is it many, civilization will collapse. No evidently not a that the business man has a better press agent; is it that the nature tyrant could go farther than that like Abraham Lincoln. The perfect candidate. So though he didnt of his vocation fits him better? Lets see. No War With Japan put on a good show he got all the Judging from experience, one could hardly say that business You see in the newspapers aloi; breaks in the publicity. men h3ve made a better success of public office than others. We have had business men as mayors, as governors, and as president, of talk coming from those who de The Southern Actor Can we really point out their administration as being one significant sire added appropriations for war Governor Eugene Talmadge for its efficiency, economy or success in promoting the general wel-- 1 purposes saying that Japan is t ' dangerous enemy of the United would have stopped the show on fare of the people ? any real stage. But he didn t get Looking at it (another way, is it not possible that the business States, a good press here in the north. man is less fitted for public office than any other? Suppose one Like the Kansas Coolidge, he is the it service? Is for Is business? it looks at the motive in public in favor of liberty and the consti- Read the for is else? it of or petitions something good humanity, tution and the supreme court and Each one states that charter of business concerns or corporations. balanced budget. He is against the purpose of the organization is to bring pecuniary rewards to its taxes and the New regimentation, one in motive is the actuating organizers. In other words, the profit Deal. His credentials seem to be business. Because men admit that it is so. By profit is meant the O. K. for a ride to respectability income in dollars and cents But there is a smell about him The biggest business man, the one we like to point out as being makes for unpopularity both that who to the makes one is a person peculiarly fitted run the government, in Avenue and the Methodist Fark the most money, whose concern shows the biggest profit and pays church at Jones Corners, Indiana. on stock whose has the highest rating the highest dividends. Or japanes on the shores of America At the grass roots camp meeting the exchange. j8 considered by naval officials as in Macon, Georgia, the Rev. Gerald Now, if government were run on the same basis, that is, if it impossible. It would require a navy Smith invoked the ghost of his was the business of government to make money, it would follow that at least twice as large as that of ost leader, Huey Long. Thomas B o such a person would be the logical man to head the government. It the United States. Dixon, author of The Clansman,1 Japans I happens that the government is not organized that wray, that is, nances have been taxed by her ex- raved against Negroes, denounced it is not supposed to be so organized. If it begins to make money, pedition in Manchuria. For her to the bill and delcared it begins to compete with private business, which is bad. If govern-- 1 finance a war now against Amer. or his sacred right to sleep in ment is supposed to be run on such a basis that it is not expected to ica is out of the question. More, the open, wear rags, and starve make any money, then wherein is the training of a successful man over, a war across the Pacific to death, which doesnt seem to would mean Japans opening the provide the basis of a popular in private business life of superior advantage? We are just way for attack on her by Russia. We are not making any invidious comparisons. ilatform. As for the United States attackA bevfhiskered old southerner raising some pertinent questions in view of the pedestal on which is placed ing Japan, there is no excuse for shouted that his pappy had killed the business man, that, either. It is said that the war a sight o Yankees and he wished would be fought to save Americas led have killed some more. All and is he receiving tele- trade with China. This trade this was atmosphere for the speech COMMENT NEWS grams! Farmers especially are amounted in 1934 to about $69,000,-00- of the governor of a great state demanding that he support t'n:s Our trade with Japan in that against a president of the United (Continued from page 1) measure. year was more than three times as States whom he had helped to elect, workers in the United States. much, $210,000,000. What is needle proceeded to weep for the little "In several du Pontifical speech ed are trade agreements of mutual The Utah Labor News wishes and denounce the agents of pigs the sugar beet worker great suc- es, Ogden L. Mills has said ho benefit to both countries, recogni- VIoscow who sit in Washington cess in their plans for the coming could balance the national budget, tion of racial equality by putting and regiment the poor people of d which prompts the inevitable inyear, and pledges its Japans immigration on a quota the United States. The white votquiry, then why didnt he during a I basis and recognition of a common ers of the south had pointed out cooperation and support. single year of his service as secro- - interest in peace. to them their Christian duty to Industrial Unions tary of the treasury to Mr. IIoov- I The Rural Worker, official organ er? Wants a Golden Voice old stuff wont do. The party of the agricultural and rural workAlice Roosevelt . Longworth, which makes the most effective raI ulls a Boner ers, says that for agricultural work(Princess Alice) insists thafr one of dio appeal will win this election. J. nerpont Morgan, head of the I the chief assets of her fifth cousin, ers there is no choice between craft he skits which the Craft take the profits out of war, and Mr. the President of the United States, are putting on are notRepublicans and industrial unionism. effective. unions among agricultural workers Nye munitions committee of the U is his radio voice. She laments he American people dont want would split the workers into green, S. senate, recently, and here is that the Republicans have no one that kind of stuff. house workers, pea pickers, onion what happened: to match him. Governor Landon of Kansas, the Members of the committee sug Radio will play a more import-an- t Wall d pickers, etc., etc., as they already candidate for have in some cases. gested that heavy taxation might part in this campaign than ever president, has a poor radio voice. There are over 3,000,000 agricul- take thep rofits out of war, and Mr, before. To be successful on the his fact is admitted even the tural workers in this country. Morgan made an earnest plea in air, speakers must develop a new most ardent Landon fans. by United in one big national indus- favor of taxing individuals in the technique, says one expert. "The trial union, these workers could lower income brackets. Senator Bone of Washington rewield a tremendous power for good. All we got, out of the Divided into. craft unions according marked: to crops and types of work, they last war was a burden of debt. "But we saved our souls and savcan accomplish relatively little. ed civilization, Mr. Morgan Interesting Column The Box Elder Journal, edited by that loyal leader of the Townsend old age pension plan and state legislator, Will R. Holmes, puts out some very interesting facts in its Comment on Todays News umn. In the column we find the following: "Senator William II. King invariably gets into a disagreement (INCORPORATED) with both the farmers and the laboring men over legislation. His last move to cause criticism from many of his constituents is reported to be his opposition to the new soil conservation act now before whole-hearte- ELY, Nev. The Nevada State Federation of Labor is actively back of the movement to have copper cable used in the construction of the power line from Boulder dam to Bioche, instead of aluminum, which is favored by the PWA. Secretary Tom Jolly of the Nevada State Federation sent a telegram to A. M. Smith, secretary of the Colorado river commission, which reads as follows: Organized labor in Nevada vigor, ously protests the use of aluminum cable in the Pioche-Boulddam power line. Nevada copppr er should be used. resolution was also adopted the Democratic central committee urging that copper be used instead of aluminum, further stating that while alumninum is practically 14 per cent cheaper, cop. per will last 25 per cent longer. A by they heard with satisfaction. That NOTICE ,is the theory that politics is our to used SALT LAKE VISITING NURSE major national sport. It ASSOCIATION be that. Everyone admired a game SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH fighter, applauded a telling stroke. And everyone wanted to be on the Notice U hereby given that a winning side. Three of those batof all member, of the tlers used fighting words. You can Salt meeting Lake Visiting Nurse Assodaton, American Salt Luke City. Utah, ha. been called Imagine and by the Hoard of Directors to be held hands their rubbing partisans in the Chamber of Commerce, Cactua him he had By gum Baying. and Exchange I'lace. In said City, on there the seventh (7th) day of March 1936, Rut' for a Jot of workers in 1936 at the hour of 11:00 o'clock a. in., for of voting on proposed politics is no sport. It is a fight the purpose to the Articles of Incorwith life 0nd death wagered on the amendments of said Association which unporation outcome. The issue in plain words der the law of the State of Utah Is e depression. A lot ordinary a corporation not for pecuniaryof profit, jg such and to adopt or disapprove folkg care about the distinction amendments ape-d- d- I rn low-dow- I I t ween recovery and reform! They want to get out and 6tay out. They may no know any economics. They may f0n0w Huey Long or Dr. But they know what Townsend. They want food, they want. clothes, homes, a chance at life. This is the issue. It is acute. Mil- ,ions of people have it right on top of their minds They want to know: What wili this man, this party, this policy. do to give us this de finite thing? Imagine them at the receiving set awaiting answers from A1 Smith, Joe Robinson, Sen-th- e ator Borah, Alf Landon, Eugene Talmadge. platform, I I proposed to-w- it: Amendment to Section 1 of Article VI so as to provide that the Hoard of Directors shall consist of not less than 21 or more than 27 members Including the officers and to provide that 9 members of the Hoard shall constitute a quorum. 2. Amendment of Article VIII so as to provide that the fiscal year shall be from January , first to Deand so as to Procember thirty-firs- t, vide that the annual meeting of the members of the corporation shall be held not later than ninety (90) days next after the close of the last fiscal year, and so as to provide that at least two weeks notice shall be given corby mall to all members of themeet- annual such to poration prior jng, 3. Amendment of Article X so as may be to provide that the amended at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors, be provided notice of the meetingmalt by given to all of the Directors at least two weeks In advance of such meeting. Dater this Fourteenth (14th) day of 1. by-la- Looking Them Over Smith, what is your answer? The former governor of New York says that President Roosevelt has not carried out the terms of the Democratic that the February, 1936. VISITING NURSE SALT LAKE bosom friends of the President are ASSOCIATION Communists or Socialists and God W. D. BROWN. so it President. gave us the supreme court 6. 1936. (Continued on page 3) Feb. A1 I anti-lynchi- I Answer This! so-call- and 0. whole-hearte- Do you want the facts) Of course, you do I This appeal is to those who believe in truth, honesty and progress. With grim, if unconscious, irony some newspapers, organs of the forces of finance and industrial reaction, hail the supreme court decision killing the AAA as a historic step back to the American way. Back to the days of 16,000,000 unemployed! Back to Mellonism, to the days of favors for entrenched wealth, to foreclosed farms, to a federal government which sits We cannot help you. The smugly aloof and proclaims: founding fathers made no provision for a situation like this. I Street-approve- I CENTURY ipmiMTsraca COMPANY Commercial Printers Publications, Out-of-Tow- n WITH WHOM YOU SPEND YOUR MONEY TO REQUEST THEIR PRINTED MATTER S. I Typographical Uaum No-11- $ Union Label Committee Briefs, Abstracts If you believe in democracy and good government should be a reader of the Utah Labor News. you The Utah Labor News is an independent publication and for that reason a splendid periodical for the home. 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