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Show LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT 2 VI Witaf) labor J&toff trAU. - A MEMBER OF THE Established 1929 (57- Thia paper receives Union News Service, a C. I. O. affiliate. -- WILL HE ANSWER? CM 1 matter March 28, 1930, at the post office Entered as second-clas- s Lake Salt at City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription .... Advertising rates by request. $1.50 per f- t annum output? ' ' gravy. gets $500 additional) for expert theProduction increased 18 per cent in 1936 over 1935. Profits went up 50 per cent. But weekly earnings of factory workers rose only 7 per cent in the same period, and this was chiefly due to their working the other. longer hours. advice on the Constitution. They get exactly contrary advice, usually five experts to four, with the majority now on one side of the constitutional fence, now on .A'' SUPREME COURT VS. TIIE PEOPLE Published weekly at 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. f THOMPSON L M. THOMPSON Office Publisher Manager Reproducing more goods. sult: continued mass unemployside. ment despite pickup of production. Are the workers who produce so We are under a Constitution, more getting their wages much Mr v.hat but the Constitution is to match their increased raised is. it Justice Roberts says from the reactionary to the liberal are The facts in the leagues handThe people of the United States book answer, No not by a long are paying each of the nine old men shot! They also tell who does get $20,000 a year (the Chief Justice - Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. M. 1 A mine of information from which the nuggets can be easily (Continued Page 1) is all there is to it. The That be additional an appointed. judge pay, have a we dice of destiny have so fallen that reactionary majority with of a destinies on the the final say progressive nation. To assume that the President is seeking to have on the bench men subservient to him is to asperse not only his integrity and that of such justices as he may name, but the integrity of the United States senate. For it is the senate that makes the judges whom the President only recommends. Each and every appointee must be confirmed by a majority of the senate. Judicial Dictatorship Stop The job of restoring our country to permanent prosperity is only half done. There is still a multitude of unemployed. There are still millions of our people on the relief rolls a condition intolerable and out of character for a prosperous nation. There are constantly recurring clashes between capital and labor, with no constitutional power for the federal government to control these things to compel an equitable determination of the differences. Before congress, and in some cases already before the court, are pending bills calculated to correct these conditions. The President doesnt know, congress doesnt know, and has no means of finding out for an indefinite period whether these laws are constitutional or otherwise. .Hence the necessity for prompt action to bring about a court that would not construe every doubt against forward-lookin- g legislation. Judicial Dictatorship Stop The nation is behind the President in his effort. We feel sure that if congress could vote on the proposition today, it would pass the legislation. In the senate committee hearings so far, the deans of the law .schools of our greatest universities have testified to the validity, the constitutionaliy, and the expediency of his plan of removing the big rock in the road that blocks the completion of the process of making this a more prosperous and more contented country. Judicial Dictatorship Stop of the United Justice John H. Clarice, the only living States supreme court, has pronounced the Presidents proposal sound and constitutional. All that delays it is the stubborn, opposition of a minority, which is only formidable because of the rules of the senate, d which permit unlimited debate, except under cloture, which of the senate has the power to prevent. We believe that before this session of congress is far advanced, the sentiment of the country will make itself so manifest that the obstructionists will recognize the futility of their effort and permit the orderly enactment of the law. Judicial Dictatorship Stop We plead that congress do its duty, and do it'now. It is the now supreme duty of congress to save the court from itself and thus save the Constitution and American government. Those who made, ordained, and established these knew there were 'no save to Lilliputians. They entrusted government to human agencies in which they believed. They established a coequal trinity of legislative, executive, and judicial departments, imparting to each the power to check and balance the others. They excluded absolutism everywhere. Under the Constitution the court has acquired the power to keep the other departments within the Constitution by control over their acts. The Constitution itself specifically gives to those other departments the power to keep the court within the Constitution by control over the personnel of its actors. These checks and balances must be used, or under Gods law will be taken away. Nonuser is accursed. With these unlimited powers of checks and balances there is coupled the supreme duty to use these powers. We repeat that the supreme duty of congress is to save the court from itself; that thus only can the American Constitution and government be surely saved. Judicial Dictatorship Stop ex-mem- one-thir- Where To, And What About It 7 Whats all this leading to? Well, in 1929, the leagues handbook points out, the slame kind of trends led straight to a colossal crash. The purchasing power of the great mass of the people failed to keep up with soaring production and profits and were still picking up the nieces! What to do about it? Well, one of the best means ever devised to increase wages and thus giving purchasing power some chance of matching increased production. is labor organization. The handbook points this moral by giving some facts which sharpn ly contrast union and wages. Average wages of urfbreanized lifted without any digging, is the handbook just issued by Labors entitled League, The Supreme Court vs. The People." Facts about unemployment, Senator W. II. King wages, purchasing power, and labor unions are presented as part of the argument for reform of the court, so that federal pretation by their associates on sunreme the bench and a hundred million labor legislation may have a chance. citizens? The same facts also supply an Pertinent Questions unanswerable argument for labor Does the constitution prohibit either the state or the national organization as a sure promoter government from enacting laws for not onlv of the workers interests factory workers, it points out, are the protection of the health and but of the public interest as well. onlv half ns high as average union welfare of their citizens by re- Here are a few of them: in w"e rates. production Manufacturing straining the freedom of contract n During the denression. 24 per of those who because of their eco December. 1936. was almost on (Continued 6) Page normV necessities, give their ser cent higher than in December, 1929; to vices for less than is needful yet manufacturing employkeep body and soul together? Jus- ment was about 2 per cent lower. Labor, Make the tice Butler has said that it does Meanwhile output per worker in One hundred millions have saic manufacturing has increased more that it does not, among those are than 25 per cent since 1929. In other words, fewer workers former Chief Justice Hughes, Chief Justice Taft, Justice Bran-dei- s, and, at long last, Mr. Justice EYE GLASSES Roberts. What was forbidden by YOUR HEADQUARTERS At Wholesale to All the constitution yesterday (acLenses Duplicated cording to the personal economic Salt Lake Citys Most Popat Same Low Price predilections of five men) is today ular Medium Priced Hotel permitted. Laboratories Optical Senator, let us have men on the 32 East 2nd South St. Salt Lake City Price, 246 So. Main supreme court who will, by their Utah Keith Bldg. OTTO R. MAAS, Mgr, Phone decisions, establish justice, insure Was. 7812 327 domestic tranquillity and promote the general welfare. But, above them now, have us let all, senator, before it is too late, before the obBEST WISHES TO LABOR stinacy of the few shall precipitate a crisis which will insure either serfdom or anarchy. Non-Partis- COURT SUPREME from 16! 1937. an non-unio- non-unio- WILSON HOTEL WILL MINIMUM WAGE DECISION STICK Until further notice, state minimum wage laws will be considered constitutional by the U. S. supreme court. ' In a dictatorship when the dictator changes his mind the law the By changes likewise. allowed act was state Washington to stand. If Mr. Justice Roberts, former Philadelphia lawyer for railroad and utility corporations, changes his mind next time, the minimum wage acts will again be slaughtered as they were four times previously. Mr. Justice Roberts at 62 is the youngest member of the court. He is the only one who changed his mind since last June declared when the court by the similarNew York law unconstitutional. Unless the Presidents plan of of the constitution: court reform is carried supreme More Perfect Union out Mr. Justice Roberts may feel To form a more perfect union, next June as he did last june establish justice, insure domestic again instead of as he happened to feel tranquility, provide for the com- last month wrhen he mon defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our pos- STAE LAEJNDEY The Laundry Does It Best Wasatch 3686 902 Jefferson St. Brob-dingnagio- ns OPEN LETTER TO SENATOR KING The general committee for the supporters of the Plan for Judicial Reform at its meeting Friday adopted an open letter addressed to Senator William H. King, asking him to support President Roosevelts court reform plan. The letter was signed by all members of the general committee, headed by Sam D. Thurman, chairman, and George A. Critchlow, chairman publicity committee, who drafted the letter. 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