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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. JULY I. 1938. Page 6 aion of the right to organize, but have actively supported his men learned while going through the school of experience does not fascist demonstrations. bar the graduate from learning in Such traitors to the labor cause should look abroad for the same school, also. (Continued from Page 1) lesson as to what is apt to happen to their kind. Both Mussolini The man knows where he verses of a recovery which was in full swing from 1933 to 1937. land Hitler utilized the services of labor traitors until the work wants trained to how to get there. and go them of crushing the unions was completed. Then they cast By their selfishness, their stubborness, and their indiffer-- 1 Education makes a people easy ence to the welfare of the people, they have broken party lines aside with contempt, giving them just as short shift as they other labor leaders. to to gave Wall Street lead, but hard to dnve; easy to with forces opposition. and joined but impossible to enslave. I the RooseWhatever American govern, think, however, Hate the Hague peo may It is this selfish group that composes MT0C3IAL! velt Club." This wrecking crew is out to destroy the President and the New Deal program. This crew representing a small minority is out to destroy of every obstacle in their way in order to return to the rule Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, when the Wall Street interests dictated the executive, legislative and judiciary departments of pie are not yet ready to sacrifice their democratic rights for the sake of fascist circuses and demonstrations. They still have the right to vote, and Hague might take a glance at the recent defeat of Governor Martin in Oregon, if he wants to know what is liable to happen in a democracy to a petty dictator who specializes in trampling on labor's rights, than any other field. people talents AS HONEST AS IIIS THINKS Many a man is not as honest as bur Government. he thinks he is. lie has talked honesty so much and has excused In congress the members of this gang are objectionable because they not only fail to support the President in his major battles against the reactionary Republican opposiself-interest- Business employs more and a greater variety of ed himself from questionable practices that he has come to consider himself honest. Such a person probably would not try to give you nine dollars for 10 dollars nor break in a store window. But if the horse he is selling you as sound, occasionally has a touch of the heaves he may think it merely smart not to mention the fact. Or, a man who early in life will not tell you the whole truth about an article he is trying to sell you, may, later in life, file an old cows teeth to make her appear younger than she is or give a horse a dose just prior to sale. Such a person thinks up many subterfuges. However, he has done it so long that he does hast not consider himself dishonest; rather he prides himself on his SHREWDNESS. Such a man may even openly condemn the youth who picks a 10 spot out of anothers pocket and goes to prison for a year or two, whereas he has often taken much more that did not rightfully bedeal and long to him on a thought himself clever. Such a man thinks, and thinks He thinks and THINKS. up schemes for beating the other fellow out of values in ways that wont run him afoul of the law. When a man has reached this stage he is not as honest as he thinks he is. He is merely as hon-An- d his THINKS could hide behind a corkscrew, yea verily, a very thin, narrow crooked so often tion, but are continually sniping at the New Deal leadership on petty legislative and procedural matters. They have used all n d means to stifle measures and possible If all the people in the United which the President has said the country desperately needs. in Italy, in Germany, and States, Recently President Roosevelt said: in Russia, should want to pack up But I know that many of you have lost your jobs, or have and move by motor car tomorrow, seen your friends or members of your families lose their jobs, how many could ride ? This is the asked by E. M. Tracy, and 1 do not propose that the Government shall pretend not to question author of a new book entitled Our see these things. Country, Our People, and Theirs. I conceive the first duty of government is to And he gives the following answer; and in all sections in the all welfare of economic Italy, one out of 20; in Germany, people protect the one out of 10; in Russia, one out in all groups in the United States, all of 150; Senator King and other members of this Democratic op- could ride! These figures are based position are willing to extend all the needed loans and financing upon the number of automobiles through the RFC to business, but they hold up their hands in now in use, and they include buses progress that our country protest when the President warns congress that it must continue andTotrucks. autoof number be the sure, the established policy of economic aid for all of the needy, both mobiles in each country isnt the in the cities and on the farms, at the present level. only sign of prosperity and comSince 1935 these renegade Democrats have made a strange fort which their people enjoy, but record for men pledged to the principles of the Democratic it is a pretty good indication of how their inhabitants live. It is party and the present Administration. They voted to strike out claimed are more jobs e clause which would have put an end to those to be thatin there the the countries with .had g companies which have overcharged the public. which comparisons are made, but These renegades by their votes showed their willingness to a fairer basis would be arrived at if we knew how much these jobs permit abuses such as those which made the Insull utility com- pay, and what could be bought with panies the scandal of the Nation. Were it not for these renegade the wages earned. Democrats the nation would not have suffered the recession of For example, in Russia, in 1936 the past few rtionths. the average monthly wage was 231 If we wish to insure our democratic liberties and way of rubles, or about $46. And the cost life, we must pursue the only safe course for us to support of the necessities of life of the kinc by American workers is the courageous and progressive policies of our President by re- demanded much higher in Russia than very electing senators and congressmen who have supported the it is in our country, although the Presidents program, and by electing a state legislature that will Russian worker doesnt see many of them. It would be interesting be in harmony with the New Deal program. to study the daily menu of the We quote from President Roosevelts Fireside Chat: worker in each of the average In these problems of government I try not to forget that countries mentioned. what really counts at the bottom of it is that the men and women But there are other considerations about which there can be no themselves of decent work take have care a to to can willing job All of these countries are question. and their homes and their children adequately; that the farmer, The dictator despotisms. n the factory worker, the storekeeper, the man, the pretty nearly 100 per cent of gets the manufacturer, the merchant, big and small, the banker who votes, no matter what he proposes. takes pride in the help he gives to the building of his community Theres only one party, and if you dont belong to it, its just too that all these can be sure of a reasonable profit and safety for bad We will send the Utah Labor News to anywhere to new And if you dare exthe savings they earn not today or tomorrow alone, but as pressforanyou!opinion different from subscribers as a trial subscription for 13 weeks for 25 cents. I far ahead as they can see. propose to sail ahead. the dictators, you go to jail, unless Every reader of the Utah Labor News has friends who I feel sure that they take a short cut, and liquiyour hopes and help are with me. would enjoy receiving this publication. Here is your chance to For to reach a port, we must sail sail, not tie at anchor date you by way of the gallows, the firing squad, or the block see that they get it. sail, not drift." where you are sure to lose your List your subscriptions below send any number of subThus spoke President Roosevelt on April 15, 1938. head! There spy systems are such that scriptions you wish. If there is not space enough in the blanks This represents a philosophy and program which every real you cant tell who is part of it, below, list the additional names on a democracy-lovinman and woman should heartily support. separate piece of paper. even to the members of your own Remit 25 each cents for This name. household. Little children have bespecial offer is for NEW TRIAL subscriptions only! IIEIL HERR HAGUE! trayed their parents, and bosom low-dow- under-hande- pep-ping-- up under- -handed death-sentenc- utility-holdin- A Trial Subscription For Your Friend or Neighbor 25 Cents gas-statio- g g friends have informed on And the joke of it acquaintances. TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION The demonstrations recently organized by I am the law" is that they all claim to be the real Mayor Hague of Jersey City to back up his denials of the consti- democracies of the world! Some of us are having a tough The Utah Labor News, tutional rights of free speech and free assemblage, are hailed time of it in the old United States 28 Fourth East Str., Salt Lake City. ediItalian with German Nazis . life-lon- and Fascists, says an delight by torial in the Union News Service. They are modeled almost exactly after the demonstrations j INEWs which the European dictators are fond of staging. The technic of suppressing labor organization and democratic rights is the same in Jersey City as in Germany and Italy. First a mythical red scare is created by an entirely unscrupulous campaign of lies. Labor organizers, liberals and all defenders of democracy are labeled Communists and the raised is that dictatorship is necessary to prevent a Comcry munist invasion. Under cover of this "red scare, labor unionists are manhandled, arrested and driven out of town. Union meetings and the distribution of union literature are forbidden, and other democratic rights are ruthlessly suppressed. Then, in order to give the impression that these suppressions of democracy have popular approval, demonstrations are organized, at which alb the police and political powers and employer pressure are used to compel attendance. A big show is staged which attracts many curiosity-seekerand the whole farce is advertised as a demonstration that the free citizens of Jersey City love to have their liberties trampled on by their petty Hitler. It is to the eternal shame of certain A. F. L. leaders that they have not only made no protest against Hague's suppres- I AND COMMENT S BLANK Enclosed find $ to pay for the 'following list of subscrip tions at your special rate of 13 weeks for 25 cents. Name P. 0. Street State Name P. O. Street State Name P. O. State .. Street s, Name P. O. Street . State |