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Show Page 2 WALTER K. GRANGER COMMISSIONER STATE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION Labor Day Greetings KIES WEI IUG IS Hotel 400 eu.T.K,s There will always be stars look to see them shine.MabeI W, through the window bars if wc Clapp. LABOR AND THE ARTS WITH BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY LABOR DAY I Section 3 UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938 $2-$- 4 SALT LAKE CITY Labor Day Greetings Jas. L, Mullen (Continued from preceding page) Lewis Telle Cannon depression. By training, however, he was poorly prepared to meet CANNON & MULLEN such a predicament. After trying ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS several halfway measures, none of 505-50- 6 Salt Lake City Templeton Building which proved the need for organization and unified action. At the same time, the need to salvage somehow the thousands of Labor Day Greetings artists who were facing not only artistic uselessness but also actual N. M. LONG & CO. starvation, plus the realization of the social harm inherent in this MORTGAGE LOANS INSURANCE REAL ESTATE I destitution level, brought about the 749 STATE SOUTH WASATCH 4217 establishment of the WPA Federal been have Art Project. Painters I provided with at least a minimum of economic security as well as with the necessary materials to Re-ele- ct carry out their work. Out of this condition has grown a new attitude toward the world on the part of the artist. For the first time in most made instances, painters were Salt Lake County Commissioner aware that their functions as inFOUR-YEATERM dividuals and as a group were related to, and dependent, on, society Check His Record Vote Democratic as a whole. As Jerome Klein reYork New remarked in the cently (Paid Political Adv.) Government support has Post, helped the artist to realize that the world is much larger than hi3 studio. A project job has enabled Labor Day Greetings him to feel that he is a useful member of the community. Vhite-India- na Recognizing this, painters have Truck Sales & Service turned to the current social order for much of their material. In their WHITE TRUCKS INDIANA TRUCKS recent canvases may be seen the Parts and Service attempt to interpret that order to other men and women to point out its inhumanity, its stifling of 268 So. 2nd East Wasatch 5101 creative forces, its fundamental Natcontradictions and defects. urally their canvases have reflected their own gloom and condemnation Re-ele- ct of such a system. We see this crit. . . icism of the existing state of afold fairs in the work of a man like Arnold Blanch, whose landscapes, V The Third Mortgage, New Democratic Candidate England 1929, and Farmer Praying for Rain, constitute a sharp Salt Lake County Attorney condicommentary on present-da- y tions. We see something of the September 13th, 1938 Primary kind of criticism expressed by Har(Paid Political Adv.) ry Gottlieb, whose Low Tide depicts a group of hungry men huddled together around a bonfire, by Arnold Wiltz, Walter Quirt, Anton Refregier, and numerous others. In Labor Day Greetings the field of lithograph a similar point of view is discemable in the work of Adolph Dehn and Elizabeth Olds, to name but two examHORACE RICHARDS. Mgr. ples; and in the murals produced during the last year or so almost all of them, it should be added, unIf it goes in the building , we sell it 99 der the direct impetus of the WPA Phone Hyland 555 Federal Art Project it is unmis1164 E. 21st South takable. It would be a mistake, however, to think that the artists growing social consciousness has been reflected only in terms of dissent Labor Day Greetings and gloom. Implicit in their criticism of present conditions has been the recognition of the need for a new aid more equitable social order. By analyzing the history of the past and showing the living Your Friendly Downtown tradition therein as opposed to Dealer what is for us today mere waste-produc- t, 535 South Main Wasatch 1414 painters have attempted to protect, by example, the elements that will constitute this new order. The mural, in particular, CjiiiiiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiimiDiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiitiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiimDiiiiiiiimtaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiimuiKS with its broad scope and historical N I has itself lent to such perspective, attempts. Here it is made quite Extending plain that those who toil have ' I been the base " throughout history Labor Day Greetings to the Workers of all civilization. In place of conattention on the finished centrating product of industry, the muralists of Utah have stressed the human labor involved in the process of production. Workers are shown engaged in their various occupations, and the debt of society to labor is clearly indicated. 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