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Show Keview ofl Events (Coirireint EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL VII: NO. 43. -- mtorial flews and Comment Stop Judicial By M. I. T. Dictatorship When the editor of the Utah Labor News read his mes congress on the judiciary we said, The President has started thing now," and all who had the same thought were right. I Bar associations, clubs, societies, organizations of every SUPREME COURT THROWS A DONE TO TRADE UNIONS Civic Pride Club" as individuals, have expressed their views by resolutions munications addressed to the President, the attorney general and congressmen. Radio addresses for and against the plan ' made every day and night. Without stopping long enough to give the plan consideration many have denounced the plan as a deliberate effort on the part of the President to pack" the supreme court with six justices, who will be rubber stamps or puppets for him. Many of thosa who oppose the plan are prophesying that constitutional government in this Republic will be destroyed; that the fundamental rights of mankind, enunciated in the Declaration of Independence, and guaranteed by our Constitution, will be lost; that the President is trying to establish himself as a dictator; and that if the President's plan to increase the membership of the supreme court from nine to 15 in the manner recommended is enacted into law by congress, a precedent will be set that will prove to be most dangerous to our government and destructive of the independence of the Federal judiciary. IIow Does History Answer These Charges? Thosewho are protesting most loudly against the President's recommendation would lead us to believe that the number of justices of the supreme court has never before been increased, their decisions never before questioned, and that no President was ever before charged with packing the court." How does history answer this? When Andrew Jackson appointed Taney chief justice' it was charged that he was appointed because he agreed with Jackson in his determination to remove the public deposits from the United States Bank. Daniel Webster in a public speech, after Taney was appointed chief justice, denounced him as the pliant instrument of the President, ready to do his bidding." Taney had advised Jackson, in 1832, to veto the bill renewing the (Continued on Page 2) w'ell CONSUMERS COOPERATION IN THE UNITED STATES Price 5 Cents Per Copy .T LAKE CITY. UTAH. APRIL 30. 1937. The Bear River Valley Leader of Tremonton, Utah, ' gave a double column head to a front page story of their Civic Pride Club." We Under PRESSURE from the Amreican people, mobilized by Labors quote in part: League and other progressive groups, the supreme court The recently organized Civic has grudgingly upheld the Wagner National Labor Relations Act. Sure, Non-Partis- Pride club is busy trying to get citizens interested in cleaning up their yards and alleys, planting shrubbery, trees, etc., so that Tremonton can take on a more beaunot for just a tiful appearance few days, but for all time. The need for such a move in community has been apparent a long time and it is hoped by the newly organized club that ev ery citizen will rally to the call for and beautifia general clean-u- p cation and instill civic pride into their surroundings. With respect to planting trees, the city ordinance provides that all trees should be planted 9 feet from the property line at a distance of 25 feet apart. In a recent survey which was made, it appears that the elm and green ash trees are the two most popular ones. Both of these trees will grow vigorously in this community. After considerable investigation, the committee feels that it can and does recommend either of thest trees. Members of the Civic Pride club met with the city council in its regular meeting Monday and presented the following suggestions and recommendations, which were unanimously approved and accepted by the council: an FIVE to FOUR. In four of the five cases the Act got a carefully limited okeh. In a bus line, there was no dissent. IVom now on you fifth, an inter-stat- e be fired for belonging to a labor union or seeking collective barcant gaining in certain industries and if the boss chooses to obey the law. But what about FEDERAL HOUSING legislation, FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE bills including men as well as women, FEDERAL MAXIMUM HOURS acts, ADEQUATE SOCIAL SECURITY, ERAL FARM LEGISLATION, EQUITABLE TAXATION, and ING CHILD LABOR? No sane progressive will want to entrust the fate of these bills to an unpredictable supreme court, where the outcome depends solely on the digestion of Mr. Justice Roberts, champion weathercock of the bench. lie loyally served the most ruthless corporations in the country, both as a lawyer and director before Herbert Hoover made him the ONE-MA- N DICTATOR of what is and what isnt CONSTITUTIONAL. He is the most fickle and the most changeable of the nine old men." EXPERT he has been on all sides of constitutional As a $20,000-a-yequestions in his judicial opinions. The people need better balanced justices if reaction is to be defeated in the court. The Presidents plan of SIX ADDITIONAL JUSTICES, who will be in step with the times, will clear the way for the legislation demanded by the people. At present you have to put the wording of laws in corkscrew fashion if they are to squirm their way through the legalistic labyrinths of the supreme court. A modernized (Continued on Page 8) ar Labor On Its Forward March; C. I. O. Is Active Textile Workers Organizing C. I. O. Textile Drive Com- A union mittee, declared: NEW YORK (UNS) That as soon as it is possible This agreement, following on it would be appreciated if a number agreement covering some 20,000 Seventh In the Series of Articles On Cooperation AppearViscose Co., larg- the agreements reached with the of the of could to be workmen employes employed ing In the Utah Labor News est producer of rayon yarn in the J. & P. Coats Co., worlds largest clean up all garbage in alley-waThis should be done.soon country, has been won by the Tex- thread firm, employing 4,000, with 2. That we request the city coun- - tile Workers Organizing Commit- the International Braid Co., larg' 6000 Societies In the United States consumer1 cil to assist us in our efforts to tee of the Committee for Industrial est producer in its field, and with It is estimated that there are cooperation is rapidly moving to (Continued on page 7) Organization, in the biggest inroad the Princeton Worsted Co., brings now about 6000 consumers cooper town. made in this previously non- to more than 50,000 the number of yet member1. ys During the depression, ship in consumers associations has increased at a rate of about 10 per cent a year. The associations are doing a business of over $1,000, 000 a day. Perhaps the first attempt at consumers cooperation began ?n Boston in the days, when a tailor named John G. Kaul-bac- k organized a buying club which later became a store. Local societies were organized by the hundreds and each operated a store: but the movement of population westward and the Civil war almost put an end to the movement. There was another wave of consumers cooperation in the early 1870s. The Knights of Labor and the National Grange encouraged cooperative purchasing. Most of these efforts failed. Out of them came a movement known as the Sovereigns of Industry," which functioned in the northeast, beginning in 1874. This movement also rose and fell. Consumers cooperation in the United States has been a slow development as compared with that of a number of other napre-Rochd- tions. s Successful In 1888 consumers cooperative purchasing clubs were formed by immigrants from Finland in northern Minnesota. Later these clubs were organized into consumers cooperative associations under the Rochdale plan, and retail stores were established. The early established stores are still serving their members and patrons. In many of these pioneer communities the cooperative store is the largest business institution. The early clubs were the foundation for the great cooperative institutions in Minnesota. In the early 1900s immigrant groups in the eastern states began to organize cooperatives, using the methods they had known in Europe. In 1915 was organized what is now the Cooperative League of the USA to serve as a central educational agency. It gives advice and assistance to cooperatives and to individuals endeavoring to orThe League ganize cooperatives. official an publishes organ, now called Consumers Cooperation. Co-op- ative societies (in addition to the credit unions) with over 2,000,000 members. This includes the organizations operating retail stores, the farmers purchasing groups, the oil and gas stations, and those carrying on specialized activities such as housing, bakeries, insurance telephone service, medical care, and other services. Periodicals with large circulation and the modern journals of opinion have paid considerable attention to the cooperative movement. For example, Scribners Magazine for April, 1936, published an article entitled The Masses Go into Big Business, by Bertram B. Fowler. s Many New Many new organizations have been formed throughout the U. S. during the last three years. In Flint, Mich., for example, a cooperative organization was formed in 1933 with eight members and a Co-op- capital of $22. At the end of it had 260 members and operated a cooperative grocery store with a Conmonthly business of $3000. sumers Cooperative Services in Chicago, organized by nine people in 1932, functioned as a buying club for a year, then opened a grocery store near the campus of the University of Chicago in 1934. It is now doing a yearly business in A cooperative excess of $35,000. oil station in St. Paul, organized in 1930. now does an annual business of $40,000 and returned savings of $3000 to its members in 1935 1935. In Columbus, the Ohio Farm Bureau Cooperative association assisted a group of city consumers, led by a member of the faculty of Ohio State University, to organize a cooperative oil station. It also serves as a buying agent for coal, fuel oil, and dry cleaning. Co-o- p Cafeteria Consumers Cooperative Services in New York City, which started business in a small cafeteria in 1920. now has 11 cafeterias, a credit union, bakerv. and lending library. The cafeterias served more than a million meals and took in a total of $434,396 during the 12 months ending March 31, 1936. (Continued from page 3) Political Outlook In Utah and U. S. Compiled From Reports of Observers Platform Promises The Utah state Democratic con- union industry. The agreement provides for a general 10 per cent increase in wages, adding more than $3,000,000 a year to the pay envelopes of the employes. Further increases in the lower pay brackets may be recommended by anoint committee which is to investigate and report on the subject. A weeks paid vacation for all workers after one years service, five-da- y week are and a also included in the pact. Hailing the Viscose agreement as the most important yet achieved in our textile union campaign, Sidney Hillman, chairman of the textile workers covered by union contracts with the T.W.O.C. since our drive began." The union recognition clause in the Viscose agreemen t is similar to that in the Chrysler Corp. contract with the United Automobile Workers, the comany agreeing not to promote or finance any other labor group for the purpose of undermining the union. In practical effect," Hillman said, the T.W.O.C. is the only collective bargaining agency. There is no cdlnpany union in the picture." The contract is to run for one year, with a renewal clause and (Continued on page 4) vention in 1936 adopted the ing nlatform plank on taxation: We propose to continue our labors as in the past in effecting an equitable distribution of the tax burden, and PLEDGE our LEGISLATURE to make effective the WILL OF THE PEOPLE relative to HOMESTEAD .EXEMPTIONS as it may be expressed in the forthcoming ELECTION, and PLEDGE OURSELVES to a continued economical administration of the affairs of the state, and to hereby LESSEN the TAX BURDEN on the PEOPLE of this President Roosevelts court reform program was unanistate. A constitutional . amendment, mously endorsed by the district No. 22 convention of the United giving the state legislature power Vline Workers of America, Tuesday, in Salt Lake City. The endorsement was in the form of a resolution addressed ;o pass laws to exempt from taxation homesteads not to exceed o Senator William H. King of Utah, and to be sent, also, to $2000 and personal property not senators and congressmen of Utah and Wyoming. ;o exceed $300, was voted upon at The resolution was offered to the convention by Joe Dowd the general election in 1936, and by' a majority of those who voted on and Alex Henetz, chairman and secretary of the convention resolutions committee. he amendment, was adopted. ourselves in favor of the i clare On the strength of the peoples passed and signed by John M. Boss, ' es.dent8 ,an of coart rcform mandate at the polls, and to make president: Albert Roberts that it is not only consti-presidebeliertng and Virgil Wnght , good the Democratic party plat-ora onalutneces sary if confidence retary-treasure- r, executive officers Vintained. pledge, a bill was introduced fte COIirts js t in 'the house by Representatives of the district. The 11th biennial constitutional 3 e n n i o n, Court Change Is Needed Twitchell, Holbrook, convention adjourned Friday eveand Brewster. It The resolution in part read: Spence, Jensen ning, April 23, with President Ross was known as House Bill No. 19. Whereas, the industrial and thanking the different committees It passed the house and the sen- business depression of the past few ' for their work. The convention as ate, but was vetoed by Governor years . . . made it necessary for a whole was very harmonious and the government to enact laws to many constructive changes in the Henry H. Blood. H. B. 19 provided for a tax ex- protect the people and restore con- constitution were made. The prinemption up to $2000 of the value of fidence, work and prosperity and cipal changes were as follows: owner-occupihomes, and $300 save this nation of ours, and The $50 initiation fee for on personal property. No more miners was changed and a initiation than $500 of the amounts of the fee of $10 for all These laws . . . were nullified uniform and could been have suand rendered valueless by the applied miners, practical exemption to land, and none would have ap- preme court as now organized; was adopted, also the clause be it resolved by the taining to sons of miners being plied as far as levies for municipal, water district, drainage district, and district officers . . . Imitted into the organization free, or bond levies were concerned. The representing more than 8000 coal the age limit was changed to read miners and their families . . . do de-- 1 (Continued on Page 6) (Continued on page 4) follow- 40-ho- ur, Coal Miners Support Presidents Court Plan nt, c- -'t m . j non-practi- ed non-practic- cal al, per-therefo- re, tes |