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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT THE NEW DEAL - AN ANSWER TO REACTIONARY CRITICS (Continued from page 1) for agricultural products wheat, butterfat, wool and meats." To attest his statement Governor Blood gave quotations as follows: Farm Prices Barley 30 cents per bushel in December, 1032, and 55 cents per ized resenting 161,500 people or more than 31 per cent of our population 3 However, the Act also contained nothing back. The supreme court, in a decision, read by another vital provision it allowed Justice Sutherland, held that this a National Bituminous Coal comwas not a real tax at all but a mission appointed by the President to fix minimum prices at which penalty, and was illegal. coal may be sold. And on this Vital Provision phase of the law, the high court chance Thus, there seems little was much less definite. therefore come under the constitu- - that to create able will be tional power of congress to pro- - valid congress The majority decision did not inan legislation to control tect such commerce." on the constitutionality of pass that labor (unless policy dustrys Unfair Labor Practices It simply said that ininterin is beyond doubt And why should not unfair la- industry use the asmuch as all provisions of the Act to or state commerce) bor practices on the part of emwere, in its opinion, inseparable, power to tax; to destroy elements all as matter a of must fall together if one were if, history ployers, within an industry which refuse and economic fact, they do threat- to found invalid. The minority deci-- ( abide by congressional en to affect interstate commerce Continued on page 4) to the point of stopping its flow, be a proper subject of federal reg Hadden Says Guffey Decision Does Not Affect Labor Relations Act were on relief. Education has been Holds Supreme supported and extended. Important and definite progress has been made toward social security by providing assistance to n the needy aged, to dependent and to the needy blind rebushel in December, 1035. lieving distressful conditions in Wheat 37 cents per bushel in thousands of cases. To the same December, 1032, and 87 cents in end preventive measures will con December, 1035. tribute by provided Oats 20 cents per bushel in No- against healthsafeguards and accident hazvember, 1032, and 50 cents per ards. LAKE CITY. UTAH. JUNE 5. 1936. Stockyards Court's Ruling in Establishes Case Precendent for Constitutionality Measure. of Wagner-Conner- y chil-dre- price-fixin- g. By A. F. of L. News Service WASHINGTON, D. C. J. War ren Madden, chairman of the Na tional Labor Relations board, spec ifically declared, in an address be fore the Labor Institute at Pitts ulation? burgh, Ia., that the decision of the would have If the bushel in December, 1035. United States supreme court inva" the effect ofregulation the Unemployment Decreasing regular protecting Beef $2.95 per hundred in DeUnemployment is definitely de- dating the Guffey Coal Stabilizaof commerce, is it any the cember, 1933, and $6 in December, creasing as shown by payroll re- tion Act has no effect on the Wag flow worse in legal and constitutional 1935. Labor Disputes Act. standing because ports to the industrial commission. it might also Lamb $3.75 per hundred in No- These reports showed that an averMr. Madden, former dean of the have the effect of the vember, 1932, and $8 in November, age of 70,000 were employed by University of Pittsburgh Law workers involved in protecting y their 1935. of three or more per- School, cited a number of decisions employers often but priadmitted Pork $3.20 per hundred in Jan- sons during the seven years pre- by the court dealing with a flow n denied right of uary, 1933, and $9.60 in January, ceding 1930 and that the number or current" of commerce which vately ization and 1936. had dropped to 48,554 in 1933 with would be relied on as determine Many of the numerous federal Uncleaned wool five cents per a drop in payrolls for like periods tive in the forthcoming precedents of interstate commerce, regulations in 30.5 pound August, 1932, and from $04,000,000 to less than test of the Labor Relations Act be while their principal purpose Is to cents in August, 1935. In June, 1935, similar re- fore the nations high judicial body protect that commerce, also have Metal prices have had a sub- ports showed 63,000 employed and incidental effects which are beneStockyards Decision stantial rise and Utah mines are and the payroll to have been InHe pointed out that in its opin ficial to certain persons or classes additional miners. employing creased to $72,000,000, all figures ion on the Packers and Stockyan of persons, and the court has never Security prices have multiplied being independent of state and fed-er- Act the court admittec suggested that that lays them open supreme from their depressive lows. work relief. s to constitutional that services performed by objection. Bank Deposits Increase Contributing largely to these re. were local in a sense, but achievements showtne in have been suits banks in Utah Deposits also held that they "affected" in ed an increase of 43 per cent June of the state administration under terstate commerce Economic Highlights in such a way 30, 1935, as compared with those the leadership of Governor Blood as to federal regulation. permit and the elective officers working for June 30, 1933. Chief Justice Taft, according to Happenings That Affect the Dinner Sales tax collections for the cal. as a unit. Mr. Madden, proclaimed the idea conto Pails, Dividend Checks and Tax State officers in addition endar year 1935 were 14.7 per cent the stockyards were not NaBills of Everjr Individual in excess of those for 1934. For ducting the normal functions of that of rest final destination or place Proband International tional and willingly for livestock but one the first quarten of 1936 these col. their offices have ably through which lems Inseparable from Local lections were 48.3 per cent greater functioned on emergency boards there was a flowing constantly Welfare. directthan in the first quarter of 1934. and in capacities that the yards were but Homes have been rehabilitated. ing the execution of the program. traffic, a throat through which the cur A little less than a year ago, a are achievements these Wives and mothers whose burdens Aiding in rent flows, and that transactions committee of the varhouse of reprefrom called also citizens the have many breaking point approached in the yards could not be separatee sentatives was a bill been assisted. Children were fed ious walks of life and serving ef- from the considering to which they which had the movement strong support of and clothed. The relief load has ficiently and willingly without pay contributed. the administration, but which was descended greatly from its peak of as a part of the administration. Strikes Affect Commerce 1933 when 36,000 households rep (Continued next week.) regarded as unconstitutional by Declaring that the supreme cour; many congressional lawyers oi has decisions in oth parties. Committee members never its overruled GOVERNOR LANDON SOFT-SOAP- S the stockyards case and in other also favored the bill but the con cases applying the same doctrine, stitutional question made them SAY AMERICAN YOUTII, TEACHERS Mr. Madden argued that since a lesitate to recommend its passage. strike of the packing house em So President Roosevelt sent the (Continued from page 1) hang his presidential aspirations. ployes would stop the flow of ani committee a brief note which was nearly a mals into and of products out o:r to make headlines throughout the In a pointed, curt letter, Dr. Fred- Teachers everywhere, in arms the packing plant, it would stop a country: All doubts should be reare million of them, up executive-secrerick L. Redefer, of friend sham the youth" stream of commerce." and woul solved in favor of the bill, leaving against tary of this organization, asks: children of to the courts, in an orderly fash the starve would who What Plans? to make poion, the ultimate question of con1. What plan do you propose his own state in order balanced a of I hope your comlitical HEADS HARDING stitutionality pretense the millions for the employment of Lan will not mittee is if certain that It permit doubt as to of young people in the United budget." CARBON CENTRAL not get will he however reasondon is nominated, constitutionality, States, who through no fault of the teacher vote. block the suggested to able, their own, are unable to obtain LABOR UNION work? That note stirred up one of the Not Kidding 2. What plans have you for iveliest debates in the New to Labor Utah News Special to When the assist the federal government say theyll get Deals Friends of the adhistory. PRICE. of l(i financially a child welfare program a kidnapper, they are not kidding, local unions Representatives ministration said that the Presiof U. M. W. of A., toso urgently needed by 28,500,000 nor are they caught napping unti shown sensible and logi dent a had with gether representatives from cal attitude pupils now attending school, many the rat is in the bag. it was up to the that local unions Auto of Mechanics to i of whom are suffering from under, kidnapping By pleading guilty courts, not a gToup of congress nourishment and lack of medical Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll of Louis Carpenters, Bricklayers, Retai men, to decide whether or not i Musicians and Bartenders Clerks, Robinson H. Thomas ville, Ky., care? aw is constitutional. Opponents formed a meetcentral a at body 3. What proposals would you saved himself much time in court said that the note made it apparin held Price ing Monday more Atlanta and night. for time federal to peniten the government suggest The following temporary officers ent that the President was seeking in assisting public school education tiary where he is scheduled to medwere chosen to serve for a period to circumvent the basic law of the to prevent such situations as exist itate on the sureness of the t. and. for the res of 90 days: in Kansas, where 444 school dis- em government Guffey Coal Act MeB. George Harding, Auto tricts are not operating at all, and of his life. bill was the Guffey Act, de The J. Robert chanics, Price, president; where 34,000 teachers work for less Henderson, U. M. W. of A., Kenil- signed to stabilize the long chaotic than $38 per month on an annual A man may invent a mouse trap worth, vice jituminous coal industry. In effect, i, president; Frank basis?" created a little NRA with Union does not a he M. W. but U. if of place A., Helper, These questions are definitely reasurer. sweeping powers over this indusshould worker on the Label it, pass worrying the Kansas Republican! John Calvin Forrester, U. M. W. try. It had hardly passed both He sees in them enough rope to his door. of A., Standardville, John W. Hol- louses of congress and received signature before den, Musicians, Price, and Orval N. the presidential action court was started. Slowly it Anderson, Carpenters, Price, memWelcome , wended its way through ' lower bers board of trustees. Glenn Bryner, Auto Mechanics, courts, with fair success Federal LaGRAND COTTAGE HOTEL Price; A. V Bonnacci, Bricklayers, urists seemed to think that, after a constitutional law. Helper; Clement Cafarelli, Retail all, it was Clerks, Price, and Ralph Winn, 'hen, a few weeks ago, the supreme Phone 4274 150 26th Street Bartenders, Price, members of the court spoke the final word. The Guffey Act was unconstitutional. executive committee. However, the high courts deciThe application for a charter did not entirely blast the sion from the American Federation of Labor has been made by Secretary lopes of friends of this type of Best Wishes Bonnacci. egislation, and it did bring to the The new organization will be 1ore some interesting possibilities. The Act imposed a tax of 15 per known as the Carbon County Cencent on all the bituminous coal tral Labor Union. with the The purposes of the central mined in the country provision that operators who comunion shall be: 1. To organize all unorganized plied with the code defined in the so that each may cooper- Act would get 90 per cent of the workers Maus ate with the other in establishing tax back, while those who did not and maintaining in the various comply with the code ''would get crafts the highest possible wage scale, together with a short work T AMERICAN LINEN day. 2. 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