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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. AUGUST Page 8 ditocsiail 5," 1938 interested in the problems of men and women who labor (that the world has not yet gone times seem was concerned over workers' difficulties, and welcomed each opportunity to be of service or to see that workers received Lf b0 my stronggUpeopfen (Continued from Fage 1) it, and the constant progress that are making, disproves it. Lets remind ourselves that of his own party. each new day may be as the beLabor has a vital interest in seeing the nomination of those Some pessimists ginning of life. candidates whose records show they are trustworthy servants of will deny this. Cut havent you SMALL TOWNS TIIE OF FUTURE the people and whose loyalty will be to the voters and their noticed that most of the fears of the night before have vanished pledges. platform . once more the small town is coming into its own. with the sunrise of the new It . . that , . appears r I day? Un the basis or voting records and similar information, n has it all over the big city economically, socially and comfortably, I n inbor's If, as many economists believe, there will more and more be an League affiliates are now in process of pickflux of city dwellers to the country it might be well to the NEWS AND COMMENT candidates endorse or ing they oppose. in towns towns here in and similar values of we size Utah have through Not only is the League taking a stand on candidates but it out the nation. (Continued from page 7) is also throwing its organized strength into campaigns in state Many believe that with improved machinery' shortening the work. . . They have no car, because after state to see that labor voters get to the polls. ing week and women working taking mens positions, the ideal set-u- p Hillman would feel uncomSidney The 1938 primaries offer the League a great opportunity for the worker of the present and future is a home with a garden plot fortable about owning one. lie not too far from where he works. This movement, which is gaining gets $7500 a and it is on the job. year as president of momentum every day, will make for better schools and other human the Amalgamated Clothing Workservice units in small places. the constitution the union ers; Several factors contribute to the low living costs in smaller com- forbids him to hold of other reA MILD INJUSTICE any munities and cities. One of the most important is that political graft munerative office. He has no othdoesnt take as heavy a toll as in larger centers where such things can er source of income. More than a mild injustice has been done Chairman John be covered up. Hillman seems to mean it when Cut better than economic advantages are those having directly to do he D. M. Hamilton of the Republican National Committee by Old says that labor should be inwith his fellow man. In the small town you get to Guard newspapers large and small which pictured his placing a with mans livingman conscious. The Amalgamatdustry know the with whom you go to lodge, church, trade union ed has introduced really wreath on the tomb of Thomas Jefferson as an act of assinin-ity- " meeting, and visit across gardens. production techYoung people have a chance to take niques in the making of mens garand as absurd as anything he has yet done." part in and direct activities with which the big city cousin is barely ments that have increased output, It should be remembered that while waiting impatiently acquainted. saved overhead, and thereby raised These and many other things go to make up the comfort to be had for Dr. Glenn Frank's 228 "platform builders to produce a for manufacturers. Inevitin smaller towns. The air is free from the large volume of smoke and profitsthis has brought sharp critiprogram. Chairman Hamilton has been importuned, beseeched other contamination which nauseates and irritates big city dwellers. The ably cism from the Left. He has been and finally in a couple of stentorian demands from Dr. Nicholas water is purer, not having to be doctored to any great extent. Less of what is to socialists a accused Murray Butler to in some manner perform a rebirth of the time is spent running to and from work, giving more hours for home- serious betrayal class collaborawork, sports, play, study, thinking, hobbies, etc. Each family and per- tion. His answTer is characteristiparty." What was more natural than that the harried chieftain son usually has more room to expand whether indoors or out. of a pragmatist and is should do some research work on his own account, to the extent Fresh vegetables and fruits are fresher and one gets acquainted cally that affirmative, partly partly negative. at least of acquainting himself with the circumstances attending with a new type of article in a white or brown shell, designated as an He out more industhe that points the original birth? There he found the name of Jefferson was egg. is helped to function efficienttry by all odds the greatest attraction. In the first few words of the ly, the larger the share of the derived benefits labor can demand. the to 82 call preamble platform adopted years ago was a In actual practice the Amalgamataddressed to the people, without regard to past political divied has reduced the average work in favor of restoring the action of the Federal sions, who are week for its members from sixty By DR. CHARLES STELZLE and seventy hours before the adgovernment to the principles of Washington and Jefferson." Executive Director, Good Neighbor League In his extremity Chairman Hamilton harked back to this vent of the union to a thirty-six-howeek in 1933. In 1911 the As on some precedent. previous occasions, his timing was not in the mens wage average garment excellent, because there is a vast difference in the present situaSomebody once said that worry true There are really some good cents was an hour; industry twenty be-1 tion as compared with 1856. The reference to Jefferson in the is the greatest American disease people and some good things in 1932 it came to sixty-fiv- e cents the line our of vision. first Republican platform has real significance. For years astute Some people call it Americanitis.1 yond an hour in Chicago, fifty-eigThird, by not crossing bridges cents in NewYork. In the same politicians had been trying to piece together a party that would But thats a mistake. It is no until we come them. As a mat-- 1 year n cities and districts stand before the Democrats. They had ideas plenty of them I confined to Americans. No matter ter of fact, ninetotenths of our fears paid as low as thirty-fiv- e cents and immense segments of already organized voters. There w.hat a. man's social condition or are never realized. an hour in St. Louis, twenty-on- e were the remnants of the Whigs, disheartened because their great Fourth, not only by remember-- ! cents in eastern Pennsylvania. ing that tomorrow has not yet leader, Henry Clay, had been three times beaten for the Presi- - whitef learned or all ignorant but that yesterday is already Contentment consists not in and various other I affected by it. dency. Also the Abolitionists, the Free-Soilepassed. great wealth but in few wants. large groups. The Democrats had just nominated James Worry is the most popular form Fifth, by constantly recalling Epicurus. suicide. Worry is the rea Buchanan, who was no Roosevelt, after a prolonged convention sands of in far that excelled in bitterness the Madison struggle Gar- - c?use of death in in many instances by men party's pledges have been sabotaged justice. Truly, American workers have lost a great and good friend. we .Jit'l ii Non-Partisa- , CURE FOR WORRY ... ur ht non-unio- ar-rive- d, rs Square den convention of 1924. Above all, the platform adopted at that convention was intensely unpopular in the North and West because it reflected the views of From the standpoint of public demand, the year 1938 bears no remotest resemblance to the situation in 1856. At that time there existed in the more populous North a universal demand for an opposition party unalterably opposed to slavery, which was the burning issue and had been for a quarter of a century, kept blazing by Clay, Webster and Calhoun. The Isy to Jefferson stuck out in front of their platform where all could see was highly appropriate. Jefferson was as sincere and as insistent in his advocacy of human freedom as Franklin Roosevelt is sincere and insistent for economic and social freedom. Tkarafnra nererore, !in reminding us ot these superb qualities of two great Democrats, Chairman Hamilton has rendered a signal public service. urnofo enma nthoi nicooct I slave-owner- s. i 1 . 05 J r r'L i ,.rrea n Howard, president of the Inter- - national Typographical Union, and national secretary of the C. I. O., the American labor movement has lost one of its finest, most courageous and intellectual leaders. That he was one of the finest will be vouched for by the thousands of fellow trade unionists with whom he had contact; any doubt as to his courageousness will be dispelled by a glance at his splendid record, and proof of his intellectual powers will be found in his every day work. He was, in every sense of the word, a leader. That the Labor Movement, in his death, lost a good friend, is evident. 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