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Show D ' I Review ofi Curirent Events J;-!-' nudity tWiykjiurr os vtap 1 1 APR 2 (5 1037 cirr EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL VII; NO. 42 Stop Judicial Dictatorship. 5 Cents Per Copy DITORDAL News and Commen The success of any government is a function of its ability to make prompt adjustments to new conditions. The national government of the United States faces today a complex situation calling urgently for action and is fortunately headed by leaders sensitive to the need. This leadership is, however, faced with the proposition that its best efforts to promote the general welfare of the people may be thwarted and frustrated by an interpretation of the supreme law of the land which, unlike the interpretation of Mr. Chief Justice Marshall, fails to ground itself on the idea: Let us never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding." In other words efforts made in good faith by the congress and the executive all of wnom have taken an oath to support the Constitution quite as solemn as that taken by the members of the supreme Price: L 23, 1937. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. By M. I. T. FORD CONNECTIONS WITH NAZIS REVEALED ON EVE OF LABOR TEST Where Is Our Home Where on earth is our town ? Do you know? Many people were surprised recently to learn through a radio talk between Henry Ford, auto magnate who A definite tie-uthat Atlanta, Georgia, is situated has challenged the C. I. O. to try and organize his plants, and on the highest elevation of any United States is exposed in the city of its size east of the Missis- the web of nazi espionage in the Anti-Nasippi river. This fact was set forth current issue of Now, organ of the Hollywood round its in recommending year League. The publication quotes John L Spivak as authority climate. for the information they print. court are in danger of being nullified through a judicial veto failing Recent floods and ideas to recognize that the central purpose of the Constitution is to help the ed by the above have ledsuggestThe charges Spivak brings against Ford are in brief, as many ' people to help themselves in the solution of their problems through the folks to think, where on earth is follows : p zi ; instrumentalities of government. Change Is a Deep American Tradition In the present situation, as the President so correctly said on March 4, time is of the essence." Americans want what they want when they want it; as for the problems and issues they had in mind when in unprecedented numbers they crowded the polls five short months ago, they want the solutions now. Tey cannot wait and the administration dare not wait. What it has done in these circumstances is to propose within the four walls of the Constitution a perfectly proper and legal way of breaking the impasse a way that will permit the American ship of state to proceed forward on its way, that will incidentally have a salutary effect on the other or lower Federal courts, and that does not shut the door in any way to a formal amendment if, later, that Should be found needful. Far from being repugnant to the American way of solving problems, the bill now before the congress is deep in the American tradition. As one of our most profound students of government said some years ago, when the tension level of politics was lower than it is at present: The United States Constitution was revolutionary, experimental, (Continued on Page 2) THE CHAOTIC COPPER SITUATION CHARLES F. WILLIS, Editor The Mining Journal, Phoenix, Arizona By our town? j A towns elevation, its proximity to lakes, rivers, mountains and swamps have a great deal to do with its health factors. Moreover they condition the spirits of its in- habitants and have a great deal to do with whether new comers can be attracted to it. Residents are interested in water from the standpoint of its drinka-bilit- y and usability for domestic use, sport and pleasure. Business and industry think of it in terms of power and transportation. One man has suggested that a community in considering its own improvements must think of them in connection with making them available to the surrounding rural and hamlet sections. On the other hand the nearness of big cities and their attracting power must always be considered. For instance, a city of 10,000 with no larger city near could well support a good hotel, whereas, the same community with in 10 miles of a metropolis might be foolish to invest too much money in that direction. Of course the relation of one community to another is condition ed to a considerable., degree vby transportation facilities and road conditions. (Continued on page 7) Aid to Mexican Fascist Conspirators Julio Brunet, manager of the Ford factory in Mexico City, has received letters on the stationery of the gold shirt, Mexican fascists, from General Nicholas Rodriguez, head of the goldi shirts," in which Rodriguez asks Brunet to give jobs to some of his friends. In another letter Rodriguez expresses his thanks to Brunet for placing members of the gold shirts" in his plant.' It is significant that the gold shirts" are outlawed in Mexico, and Rodriguez himself has teen exiled. Rodriguez, with the cooperation of the Ford manager in Mexico City, is conspiring from American territory to overthrow the Mexican government, which is on friendly terms with the United States government. It is important to note that Rodriguez was on such friendly terms with Brunet that he was able to ask him for two ambulances, which (Continued on page 8) DIRECTS T. W. O. C. s r 'A 4 C. I. O. Orjranizcs Provo Slecl Plant Special to the Utah Labor News. PROVO A local odge of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America, affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization, was organized here Monday night by James G. Thimmes of Chicago, field representative of the Steel Organization Committee of the C. , I. O. He delivered a stirring ad- dress on benefits of a union of Copper has been very much in ' cents and pay the wages which workers and collective bargaining. the headlines. First came the copper miners standards require ' More than 100 employes signed for statement of the "President, made Following the attack of the at a press conference, that the President on high copper and stee membership in the Columbia Steel local lodge, whose members are copper price was unjustified and prices, the foreign market on cop too high; that there were mines in per dropped from above 17 cents to employed at the Columbia plant at Ironton. the United States which could pro- 14.90 and this was promptly fol S. H. Clark of Provo was elected duce at 5 to 6 cents per pound and lowed by a reduction in the domes Political Outlook most could to all make copper cents that tic price from 17 to 15 president of the new lodge. Other officers elected are Rodney Puffin, sell at 8 to 9 cents per pound; and (14.50 cents on futures) f. o. b. In vice president; F. S. Iledquist, rethat the copper excise tax did not Connecticut Valley, as it was only Utah and U. S. influence the price at the present the higher London market which cording secretary; David Reese, financial time. forced the domestic producers to secretary; O. A. Anderson, Compiled From Reports of Observers Then came the defense of Sena- keep up the Uhited States price in treasurer; Eugene Wilkins, guide; V. Johnson, inside guard, and Aseal tor Burton Wheeler of Montana, order to prevent depletion of the SIDNEY HILLMAN C. H. Meason, outside guard. All generalizing that the present price available supply of domestic new Platform Promises of copper was justified and necesand scrap copper. President, Amalgamated Cloth- of the officers are from Provo 1936 The Demof maintain to the the be must the It remembered that platform sary high wage ing Workers of America, and with the exception of Mr. Meason, standard set by United States cop- copper quotation is not only the ocratic party in Utah included the chairman of the Textile Workers who is from Springville. The workers will meet again per mines and denying emphatical- price at which producers will sell following: Organizing Committee of the C. I. We subscribe to the proposition O. Since the campaign started 58 Friday night, at which time a ly that copper could be produced copper but it is the base on which that labor should enjoy its just textile companies have been grievance committee will be sein this country to sell at 8 to 9 (Continued on Page 6) share of the wealth it produces. brought under union contracts. The lected. A campaign is under way to We believe in a decent standard of aim of the drive is to bring more for a lodge composed of em-- ( form and ourlabor, living than a million textile workers into pledge selves to rigid enforcement of the the union fold. Continued on page 4) labor laws already in our statutes. We believe in security against Sixth in the Series of Articles On Cooperation Appearing accident, and, to some In the Utah Labor News extent, industrial disease. We favor sane measures looking to the accomplishment of these ends. We reaffirm the national platform Roch-1 20 One Within over 7,200,000 members. years after the dale pioneers, organized in 1844, eighth of the retail trade of the pledging to labor the right to colthere were more than 400 similar country now passes over the coop- lective bargaining and organizing, Governor Blood Speaks at Opening Session President John of free from interference of employt associations in England. In 1863 erative counters. In M. Ross Wields the Gavel Joe Dowd Heads the Powerthese local associations took the the world crisis the cooperatives of ers, and to the minimum wage and ful Resolutions Committee. first step toward federation by or- England have maintained the mon maximum hours provisions therein contained." Cothe of the North at of their ganizing employes England ey wages The most important words in the Governor Henry H. Blood was operative Wholesale Industrial and 1929 level and as a result the pur in order that the meeting above Provident Society. The progress at chasing power of their employes platform pledge are the the speaker at the Tuesday morn- ing immediately convene as a might first was slow, within two years it has increased. During the depres- words, We believe in security ing session of the 11th biennial wage scale convention. was evident that the principle of sion, while the corporations of the against unemployment, accident, convention of District 22, United He said he believed there would federating local units, into an effi- United States were releasing and, to some extent, INDUSTRIAL Mine Workers of America, which be no great obstacles in the way cient wholesale organization would workers from their payrolls, the DISEASE." is meeting in Salt Lake City this in reaching agreements with the Senate bill 58 by Senator Eldred week. succeed. In 1869 the Wholesale cooperatives of England increased operators of coal companies, since built a warehouse in Manchester. employment by over 50,000 per- VI. Royle of Utah county proposed John M. Ross, president of the the new scale will follow by comto redeem the party pledge so far district organization, is in After 10 years there was a de- sons. mon consent the agreement reachas the industrial disease plank of of the convention sessions. charge a mand from the locals that the Had Struggle Dele- ed between the union and the ApWholesale, in addition to acting as Cooperation in England did not the platform was concerned. The gates are in attendance from local palachian operators. a purchasing agent, produce for grow without struggle and pain. most prevailing diseases listed in unions in Utah and Wyoming. offiThe reading of a the consumers who were members. In the early years there was con- ;he bill were: lead poisoning, zinc Governor Blood complimented cers report reviewing conditions First a jam factory was establish- fusion of aim. Furthermore, the poisoning, mercury poisoning, ar- the delegates for their organiza- in Utah and Wyoming coal mines, ed, later a soap factory and a shoe economists, educators, business senic poisoning, phosphorous pois- tion that has the ability and and carrying an appeal for harand intellec- oning and poisoning by debilitating willingness to sit down and confer mony and cooperation between this leaders, federation, government, .Today factory. known as the Cooperative Whole- tuals of 1844 were divided into :'umes or gases, and lung diseases, n problems common to employer mine operators and miners in presale Society, is the largest business those who did not know what was such as pneumoconiosis, silicosis ahd employe." venting accidents, constituted the in England. It has 150 manufac- happening in Rochdale and those and anthracosis. State Representative Sheldon R. principal business of the convenEleven senate Democrats joined Brewster offered the invocation at tion Tuesday afternoon. turing plants which make more who, knowing, ridiculed the experithan 200 products for its members. ment. But by 1870 a different ;he lone Republican in voting the beginning of the first session. Membership Increase It has its own cooperative banks, story could be told. In the period against the Royle bill. The vote Plea for Harmony The joint report of the officers the volume of whose business is from 1870 to 1890, the lecturers was 12 against, 10 for, and one abPresident Ross in his opening of the district to the convention, second only to that of the Bank of and writers on the movement in- sent. address made a plea for harmony signed by Ross, Roberts and cluded a distinguished group of Senators voting for the bilk and goodwill among the- workers Wright, showed 60 local unions in England. Christian Socialists, including J. were: Baker, Farr, Grover, Holmes in the industry. He expressed the good standing, with a total memSeven Million Members M. local F. Ludlow, F. D. Maurice, Topkin, Nelson, Parratt, Royle, hope that the constitutional con- bership of 7798 at the close of 1200 about there are Today consumers vention would complete its work by 1936. This is an increase over the cooperative associa- Charles Kingsley and John Stuart Snow and Tanner, Democrats. tions in England, with a total of (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 4) Friday night or Saturday morn (Continued on Page 5) ly-min- ed Cooperation in Great Britain District 22 United Mine Workers Meet in S. L. City ! the-mids- 28-pa- - . - ge |