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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FEBRUARY 25, 1938 Page 6 CURRENT NOTES j ON WASHINGTON vation. It is almost equally fool states that the weekly earnings of ish for the government to buy fair the 196,000 workers now employed or good farm land and sell it to ranges from $8.00 to $12.00 combankrupt farmers and then refuse pared with $32.00 in 1937. to let them sell products to pay the The Automobile Workers union things that are entirely outside o her routine existence. In the politi cal field she can be of very great value by interpreting the human element in a machine age. Courtesy Independent Woman. engraving, remembrance Mission leather, and cards, playing novelties made from glass and plastics. These products may carry the Allied Printing Trades label. The unionization of this great plant employing upwards of 1500, and the cordial relations which exist between the management of the firm and the officers of the printing trades unions generally have been of material assistance to the printing trades. special from page 1) fixed and buy what they states: whcih the 128 need. charges, of $00,084,223,000, This is not a seasonal layoff. had $25,150,450,000, or nearly 28 doesnt production Curtailing Normally production in the indus- LABOR ON ITS per cent, while the 128 big corpor- jibe with increasing the number of be approaching its peak. would try d ations had nearly of the producers on a commercial basis. Thero no is indication that these FORWARD MARCH total capital stock, but only 28 per should be pro- unemployed The automobile workers government cent of the preferred stock, com- tected on the price it pays for land, will be reemployed in private inpared to 34.3 per cent of the com- but should retain title to all the (Continued from Page 5) dustry, for many weeks. mon stock. land it acquires. BOAKE CARTER ADMITS The big concerns also had 32 per should operate all suitable OF LABOR; IGNORANCE It NEW BILL TO BRING Marketing Corporation cent of bonded debt and mortgages farm lands it SUBJECT LAY OFF TO directly distribuacquires, and The U. S. CONTRACTS ALL processors big kCCn n Panff a government agency, or tors are still keeping in Senate and through WAGNER ACT UNDER very rapidly. Boake Car-tePHILADELPHIA through farmers cooperatives. House Agriculture committees, the The government should employ Frazier-Lemk- e has felt labors might. He wil WASHINGTON bill creating the (UNS) Government Farming the in on news labor farmers on comment farms not it operbankrupt been profiting who have Producers Consumers Marketing Secretary of Agriculture Wal not assume the risks but merely report it. to buy farm products from Government contracts on the lace stated last June, that there ates, and corporation, 1 m ?n Carter one hand, while violating provi. farmers to a chance to buy here, process them and sell them I .doghouse, are between one and two million stake and labor sions of the National Labor Relaof luncheon broke. a admitted at land, go to both producer consumers, using farm families in the United States local radio a the make leaders given by If the government cant and consumer cooperatives. tions Act on the other, will be in as desperate condition as any success commentthe which of this, individual farming station over forced to comply with the Act unThe and between farmer spread peasants he had seen in Europe. ators programs originate. Refusec der the terms of a bill introduced chance. a hasnt 100 consumer still about is These families are a continuing price a renewal of his contract recently into Congress by Senator Robert The National Resources Board cent. menace to the standards of organ' per Philco Radio, Carter signed up F. in 1935: by reported The profits of producers and disWagner of New York. ized, or unorganized labor, be Foods to advertise General with From of the standpoint of all Government Beneficiaries tributors of farm products are still Huskies and Post Toasties. cause they cant make a living unhalf production, as well nearly or loans contracts, der the present farm system. a labor boycott movement as their subsidiariesgrants, After the of the nation are not huge. farmers subconand Not even free farm land would set in, Carter met with the labor tractors. are required by Senator solve this problem for these fam- needed. POLITICAL OUTLOOK representatives to admit that he is Wagner s new bill to bargain colilies, if they continue to produce Railroads getting his foot into it every lectively with their employes accompetitively and he expresses an opinion on time the The hearings before (Continued from page 4) cording to the public policy of the Government gave farmers, or labor issues. Commerce Commission on WALK ER AROUND state United States as laid down in the r the I do not feel that I am capable Labor Act. !ilcheap- - hundrcd3 of milhons application of the railroads for THE BLOCK of commenting on labor, he con a general 15 per cent increase in In a statement, endorsing the Dr. Carl C. Taylor, in charge ceded. that Carters said inV&c a mile manager and rates, William freight Allen )ill, Philip Murray, chairman of White By Division of Farm Population and if a controversial labor issue arises the in passenger fares has crease Steel Workers Organizing no real menaces Probably danger Rural Life, U. S. Department of shown the roads have been on the program, equal time will be Committee called attention in democracy in the countries to the very where Agriculture, reported in January efficient, and proven again that democratic allotted labor for presentation of act that a number of large steel institutions been have this year, that there are well over government ownership and opera rooting, stemming, flowering, and its side. companies enjoying substantial and 900,000 farm families on relief. essential. is tion profitable Government contracts fruiting for centuries. Yet, curiOn the cost of caring for them are consistently violating the Wagin these ously, very countries, he. said: Resources Natural Labor Act. ner the British the America, empire, Relief rates to farm families The Coffee Bill for Public Own- - northern European contradiction between the This a when such relief was given kingdoms, I natthe four of jublic competing ership policy of the United States even a disconcerting, John B. Haggerty, president of strange, a:.eraed fro Sto 30p?r oral resources, coal, oil, water symptom I of collective barn furtherance is appearing in politics: the International Brotherhood of month. If we were to assume that R. 7024) has the and the and antiquated anti-ab(H. gas gaining power To take two Bookbinders, issued the statement system. all unemployed farm iamlies were been referred to a policies of these steel cornotable examples, England and that Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul, to be placed on straight relief at of Means and the House Ways America. The conservatives in Minnesota, creators of remem porations must be eliminated, $20 per month and were to use the committee. (Continued on Page 7) England have been in power the brance advertising, has recently 900,000 recorded above that would beter part of a decade, and they unionized its entire printing plant, take $18,000,000 per month or ' Iron and Steel have been working out a program This concern has one of the UNQUALIFIED $216,000,000 per year. not if At liberal-labo250,000 least 200,000 so liberal r that the best equipped printing and manu We dont care what you think; If these people were to be plac- steel workers are now working crowd cannot summon consistently facturing plants in the country, we want to know what you ed know, I wIsT !ly 3art time or are wholly unem' a decent opposition. In the Unit- - said Mr. Haggerty, who is also remarked the lawyer. faVmopaS ed States, we have a liberal party, president of the Allied . I suppose that $500 per year per Well, I may as well get off the Printing Indus steel and Should the which is merely an assembly of Trades association, and produces stand iron family (not assuming that land then, said the witness. I pressure groups, liberal minorities a complete and elaborate line of cant talk without thinking. 1 am would be purchased for them or if . From 1929 to the spring of 1933 ike the farmer, the laborer, the calendars, direct mail advertising, no land were purchased that it would lawyer. be held in the name of the govern-- 1 production dropped 83 per cent, Negroes, the unemployed, all graft wholesale prices only 20 per ed on the old conservative Demo ment) would be the minimum re- and cent. cratic tree. This party has been in quired. In that case it would take labor is The installing industry power nearly five years. It has course $450,000,000 per year. Of, this would not have to be a con- saving, that is labor displacing ma worked out a program so satisfactory to the mass of the people that tinual outflow of money since pre- chinery. Steel S. U. income net of 1937 In beopposition can neither coalesce nor sumably these people would come self sustainng and would be was $99,930,836. successfully attack the program from either left or right. able to pay back the original loan. Motor Industry As a result, in America at least, The Federal government is also notoriousis motor The the $700,-000,0to industry congress and the President do from $500,000,000 paying soil conserva- ly overcapitalized, millions of peo- not have the blessed boon of intelfor tion. This goes chiefly to big ple are using cars from three to ligent and emotionally indignant landed farmers, and the price is ten years old, worth from $200 to criticism. But you must admit that the Is democracy reduction of production, though $50 the majority probably less particularly our American democracy getting Amercans would consume nearly than $100. twice as much milk as we do, more If so, Many of these are a menace to numb in the extremities? wheat, vastly more vegetables and the drivers, pedestrians, and other someone should walk er around the block and wake her up. Courfruits and a third more cotton than cars. we do, if prices were reasonable, Millions of families would buy tesy of The Commentator. Is the true advocate of those conditions which and we had the purchasing power. reasonably priced cars and reduce It is foolish for the government consumption of gasoline and oil. WOMEN SHOULD will make for the hetterment of Men, Women, to buy worthless farm land and About 320,000 are unemployed or FEEL QUALIFIED to sell it for farming, so it is plan- working part time, according and Children. By Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt ning to buy 100,000,000 acres of Homer Martin, president the AutoI feel that we need to increase such land and retire it from culti- - mobile Workers of America, who the number of women in public office. Last year, and in years past This year and However, I would never want a woman to take an office which she did not feel herself well in the years to come Utah Labor News has unfill. will She to be qualified der constant scrutiny and, in addiheen, is now, and will continue advocating and tion, a greater effort will be made to use her by unscrupulous eleworking for better citizenship, humane indusments and less credit will be given her for intelligence. She will be tries, and other things that will make life constantly proving herself and if worth-whil- e for human beings. she makes a mistake it will injure (Continued one-thir- r Em-ploye- rs com-merchi- al hap-hazar- d. 1 1 I or one-par- ty sub-committ- ee SSIr You Have Seen Them All 00 so-call- ed UTAH LABOR NEWS A. 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