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Show , i f1 i 1 28 Pages 4 Sections TI ... y gj-r- EDUCATE ORGANIZE THE PEOrLES PAPER COOPERATE A 5l FORMER UTAHN FOR GOVERNOR LEAGUE N CANDIDATES WIN A SMASHING VICTORY IN CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES In California primaries Tuesday candidates progressive seeking Democratic nominations were victorious by overwhelming majorities. State Senator Culbert Olson, former Utahn, baeked by Labors . League, won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination by more than 150,000 plurality. Dan Murphy, endorsed by A. F. L. high command, trailed in third place. The rank and file A. F.'L. joined the League in support of Olson. Downey for Senator Sheridan Downey, a genuine new dealer, defeated William Gibbs McAdoo for U. S. senatorial nomination by more than 100,000 votes. Downey had the general backing of Labors League. All of the new deal members of the U. S. house of representatives were renominated. Mooneys Message 2 Tom Mooney's message to organized labor, his friends and supporters, and all liberal and progressive voters of California, urging nomination of Olson and Downey was helpful in the primary campaign. - Mooney. said:- convinced that Senator Olson, if elected governor, wall grant me the full and unconditional pardon that in justice I should, have had years ago. In his pamphlet, Mooney said, Sheridan Downey deserves the support of all liberal and labor and forward-lookin- g people in his campaign for United States senator. He is the only candidate for the senate who has declared himself on the Mooney case. Thousands of Mooney pamphlets were distributed throughout the state. Supports Roosevelt Sheridan Downey is an ardent supporter of President Roosevelt and his New Deal program. He is far more liberal in political and economic views than is Senator Non-Partis- an Non-Partis- Non-Partis- an an Labor Day in Utah will be generally celebrated Monday, September 5. Among the outstanding celebrations and parades will be those in Price, Salt Lake City, Park There City, Eureka and Ogden. will be hundreds of smaller gatherings and picnics in every town, hamlet, canyon and resort. Among the large ceelbrations and parades will be one at Price, where all Carbon county and eastern Utah will gather to honor Labor. Among the speakers will be United States Senator Elbert D. Thomas and John M. Ross, president, District 22, United Mine Workers of America. In Salt Lake City several thousand workers of Salt Lake City and vicinity, and of Ogden, are expected to march in the Labor Day parade at 10 a. m. There will be floats and automobiles in the line of parade on South Main street and onto Liberty park where a program will take place at 2 p. m. In every sense of the word, Monday is Labors Holiday, and all Utah will celebrate in honor of all workers. ily, thanks to the legislation de- signed to protect that great mass of our people from economic vicissitudes. Passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act, since the observ ance of Labor Day, 1937, should be a source of satisfaction to wage earners and employers all over the country, f Putting a floor under wages, a ceiling over hours of work and ending child labor in industries engaged in interstate commerce, it will be the means of increasing the purchasing power of millions of workers in the years to come. This in turn will benefit employers, investors and farmers. The Act will also serve as a protection to that great majority of employers who want to maintain decent standards but have been comg at the mercy of the in past. petitors It is a pleasure to report' such progress to the workers of America upon the day which is so much McAdoo. theirs and to assure them that the California has upset the reac- United States Department of Lationary apple cart and is on its bor, established by the Congress to way to become one of the outstand- foster, promote and develop the ing New Deal states of the nation. welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions and to advance WORKERS HAVE their opportunities for profitable MADE PROGRESS employment, will continue to fulfill its duty in their interest and in that of the Nation. By FRANCES PERKINS -- chapters. Thrown out of work three times in the last six of his twenty-si- x years, he couldnt think of one good reason for living as he paced the ledge on the 17th floor of a New York hotel. He is only one of many of the prideful unemployed who have chosen death rather than try to exist longer. If, as some believe, there are men in positions of financial and industrial power who are willfylly holding up employment for political reasons then they should feel that the blood of these is on their heads. And the old, outworn saw of the end justifying the means will not cause the old law of consequences to become inoperative in their cases. It is probably true that only a small minority would resort to such tactics but if factories were operating as they might retail merchants would not be complaining of not being able to get goods within a reasonable time after ordering. (Continued from Page 1, Sec. 1) workers, miners, building tradesmen, etc. Practically every city, town and hamlet in Utah has heard of organized labor. A graphic picture of working conditions in an American factory of the better type is to be found in Harpers Magazine for September. Stoyan Pribichevich, an exile from Yugoslavia, says in part: The workers work hard all their lives and get enough for a living, sometimes a comfortable living, but never enough to stop working. Once in a shop, always in a shop, was the gloomy refrain in every department. Sitting on wooden boxes or machine levers at lunch time, we often exchanged, confidences. and talked about our intimate ambitions. The older workers would shake their heads telling of twenty, thirty years spent in the shops. The young ones would dreamily speak of their hopes for the future. A fine machine operator said bitterly: I get sick looking at this machine. Shall I run it .when I am fifty ? What a life ! Most Americans have had their turn at some kind of labor and as the above writer also points out we all enjoy the fine comraderie that exists between the humblest worker and the man who has risen from the ranks. On Labor Day let us again honor all labor of hand and heart and head. Secretary of Labor Wage earners of the United States can celebrate Labor Day with assurance that their welfare will be promoted, their working conditions improved and their opportunities for profitable employment advanced as a result of passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Social Security Act and the National Labor Relations Act, three' outstanding laws enacted since March, 1933. Marked economic gains have been made, which have benefited not only workers but employers and investors as well in the last five and a half years. Weekly factory pay rolls rose from $77,083,-00- 0 in March, 1933, to $137,162,000 in July, 1938, a gain of $60,079,-00- 0, and in the same period there was an advance in a nonagricul-turemployment from 25,946,000 to 31,769,000, a rise of 5,823,000. Building construction went up from $24,100,000 in March, 1933, to $182,900,000 in July, 1938, an increase of $158,800,000. Such advances as these have been in the interest of the well being of all Americans.' They have been accompanied by a feeling of greater security for the future von the part of the worked and his fam . al COMMUNISM AND ORGANIZED LABOR , the great will agree that Ernest Thompson Seton is a great out-doo- rs naturalist. Although bom in England Seton received a considerable part of his education at Toronto Collegiate Institute and for a time was Manitobas Government Naturalist. He made a lasting contribution to the improvement of the race in starting, in 1901, several clubs of Woodcraft Indians. A little later General Baden-Powe- ll helped him start the movement in England. In 1908 the name was changed to Boy Scouts. Seton was the head of the move1915 IIO-HU- M! August heat is very trying in Washington, and every year about this time silly things seem to happen,' as a sort of midsummer madness seizes people. Two years ago the A. F. L. executive council went through its solemn farce of putting the C. I. O. unions on trial before itself, declaring them guilty and sentencing them to suspension. John P. Frey was the prosecutor then. He read through reams of documents proving nothing in particular, while the council members yawned and nodded. The C. I. O. unions were too busily engaged in their great monkey-shine- s campaigns to pay much attention to the of the A. F. L. executive council, as its farcical trial meandered on to its foregone conclusion. Since that time the C. I. O. has grown into a great naIts constructive tional movement of four million members. achievements in organizing the unorganized, in establishing in raising wages and improving condicollective bargaining, tions, and in bringing greater liberty to the people, have established it as one of the cornerstones of our American de- LIFE NOT WORTH LIVING Just a smear on the sidewalk! That was the earthly finish to John Wards life book of a few short mid-summ- agree. In the first place, many of the workers sincerely believe in the principles of Communism. They believe that in this system lies the salvation of the people. Furthermore, under our democratic form of government, they have an absolute right to work for the introduction of the Communist philosophy, even to the point of having it replace our present form of government provided that they do not resort to violence. This is fundamental in our Constitution, and there is no use denying it. Also they have an incontrovertible right to free speech again according to the Constitution, and provided that they do not advocate violence. Whatever changes are to be made must come through legal methods which are clearly stated in our laws, and which definitely declare that these changes must take place through orderly procedure, by vote of the people, and not through revolution led by a dic- tator. BY DR. CHARLES STELZLE All of this means that those who The Communist party is a real are opposed to Communism must menace to,, the trade union move ment. This has been frequently and amply demonstrated. Every labor organization in this country has felt the harmful effects of its political operations, although it cannot be denied that there have been occasions when the Communists have stood by the bona fide trade unionists in their struggle to secure better conditions. But weighed in the balance, there is no doubt the scales would show that their influence for evil has been greater than it has been for the good of the organized labor movement. There is no need to enumerate the particular occasions or the devious ways through which Communism has been a distinct detriment to Labor, because these are well known to the workers, who are familiar with the political manipulations of the Communist Cents Per Copy ment in the United States until when he withdrew and threw his efforts in with the Woodcraft League. He was a lover of all wild life, sometimes gave characteristics to the denizens of the forest which, according to Burroughs and other naturalists, were just too good to be true. Be that as it may, nature loven WE KNOW NATURE BETTER have read his Wild Animals I who BECAUSE OF HIM Have Known, the Trail of the Sandhill Stag, and Lives of the Many of Utahs nature-lovin- g have added much true en- Hunted, . citizens as well as vacationists ( Continued on next page) among us who enjoy wild life and 30-pa- ge price-cuttin- 5 if NEWS AND COMMENT LABOR DAY CELEBRATIONS WINS NOMINATION NON-PARTISA- Price: SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. SEPTEMBER 2. 1938 VOL X. NO. 9 educational vigorously promote campaigns showing the advantages of the democratic form of govern ment, and, equally important, they must wipe out the unfair social and economic conditions which give rise to Communism. In other words, we have got to prove that Democracy is better than Commu- er ' mocracy. heat is at us again, and another But now the farcical performance is being put on in Washington by some of the same actors. The same John P. Frey has spent days of a Congressional committees time reading through reams of papers and docu' ments designed to discredit the C. I. O. His silly charges are so full of errors and so unsupported by any real evidence that they will not stand serious scrutiny. The committee has been flooded with denials and disproof from those C. I. O. officers who have been annoyed enough by the performance to show their resentment at Freys slanders, while others have heard this stuff so often from other enemies of the C. I. O. that it has failed to get a rise out of them. The C. I. O., just as every other progressive movement, attacks ever since its incephas been subjected to tion. A. F. L. unions have been similarly attacked whenever they show any signs of activity. Such attacks always increase in proportion to the activities of a union movement in serving labors interest and causing consternation among its enemies. The reaction of the C. 1. O. generally, therefore, to this attacks can latest and silliest repetition of previous best be described as a very large and hearty yawn. The C. I. O. News. mid-summ- er red-baiti- ng red-baiti- ng nism. However, as trade unionists we that the first loyalty of the Communist who becomes a member of the trade union is to the organized labor movement as such, rather than to the Communist party. A worker have the right to insist may be both a Communist and a trade unionist. This is his inalienable right. But he must not forget that the trade union is a voluntary organization of workers formed for their mutual protec-doand if the Communist is dis-oy- al party. to his obligation as a trade But having thus declared ourselves, there are some other consid- unionist, there is no place for him erations to which we should all in the trade union movement. n, With Best Wishes for a Happy ILjaTboir Day Sincerely Yours, I Utah Labor News , |