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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEPTEMBER 23, 1938 NEWS AND COMMENT Malpractices of the Broadcasting Moguls (Continued from Page 1) produce down, who suffers? The farmer suffers and all who have a part in packing and marketing those items. People are more and more asking themselves, Is it good sense, in the immediate interest of saving a penny or two a pound, a dozen or can, to encourage concentrating the buying power of the nations essential Commission. If a conscientious products into the hands of the few. scrutiny of abuses in radio is ever If it became universal, profits made, it will conspicuously include would be so small that fewer peo-pl- e could get work, farmers and the problem of freedom of the air and how it is tampered with by Big Business monopolists in and out of democratic nation. the industry. Reactionary Big Business interests, bent on undermining PresiAs of old. the latest case-hist- o ries concern current developments dent Roosevelts recovery program, in politics, foreign affairs, labor were instrumental in cancelling a struggles and other controversial radio period in support of the Adissues which precisely because ministrations efforts, scheduled they are controversial should have over Station WIND in Chicago and full play on the air waves of a sponsored by the Midwest Daily Record, a progressive newspaper. On May 1 came the news that the publication was planning to seek legal redress for the elimination of its broadcast, which had been arranged for 11 a. m. of the day before. A telegraphic request was Special Dinners made to the Federal CommunicaMilk-Fe- d Chickens tions Commission to inquire into Corn-Fe- d Beef Steaks WINDS action and determine Utah Mountain Trout whether there was interference with the freedom of the press and 12 North and 5th West, radio. PROVO, UTAH Only a few weeks before that a typical case involving labor was J. E. MILLS, Manager provided by New - Yorks WHN Open All Night which was charged with barring a scheduled speech by Leon W. Ber-ne- y, insurance director for the United Office and Professional WELCOME, LABOR Workers. He was to speak on the State Labor Relations Board election due the next day among the agents employed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. When Berney was notified that his p. m. period had been cancelled as likely to prove too Cleaning - Dyeing - Pressing controversial, the union at once and Repairing Altering complained to the Federal Communications Commission that the All Work Guaranteed viewpoint of organized labor was 148 being denied" a hearing. A group Phone 276 W. Center of insurance agents called on the PROVO, UTAH WHN management in an attemp to persuade the station to adhere to its original agreement. Apparently impressed by the vast malpractices of the broadcasting moguls and doubtful that the $500,000 general Congressional investigation of monopolies is ficient to bring them to light, the House Rules Committee is favoring a special probe of the industry and the Federal Communications Riversido Cafe .... Imperial Cleaners and Dyers WELCOME, 11-11:- 15 LABOR UTAH A. F. L. MEET AT PROVO THE TAVERN CAFE for the Best Dinner Breakfast - Lunch Refreshments and Beer 50 by the A. F. L. He said that every senator anc North University Ave. PROVO, UTAH 17 y (Continued from page 6) the House Judiciary committee o which he is a chairman. A congressional opponent of labor policies fought this bill proposed bi C. I. O. with ammunition fumishec Welcome, Labor Bring Us Your Watch Troubles W. E. MITCHELL JEWELRY CO. Official Inspector for Union Pacific & Utah Railway 34 West Center Phone 52 representative sympathetic to the labor movement hopes and prays to see the railroad brotherhoods, the C. I. O. and A. F. L. all marching together under one banner and for one purpose. Congressman Murdock vigorous ly defended the public works pro gram as the only means of bring ing back to Utah the money flowing out of the state as dividends to absentee stockholders. Mayor Anderson, in his address of welcome, lauded the WPA am expressed dread that the loca" governments will soon have to as' sume. AND NOT ORATORY oratorical contest Republicans is announced, with the indorsement of the chairman of the Republican national committee. Will giving away $15,000 in prizes for glib talking achieve laudable objectives? What the parties need today, far more than oratory, is straight thinking and plain speaking. Detroit Free Press (Rep.) A stockholders of General Motors. Safety protected from want by this munificent salary, he would do well to hide his totally unwarranted hostility to a measure which prohibits employers from paying their employes less than the altogether too-loweekly wages of $11 next year, $1?.60 the year following, and $16 by 1945. w nation-wid- e for Young SENTENCE STIMULANTS When we think of Diety as only punishing for a purpose, then and then only will we revise our prison punishments to further the idea of man-buildin- g. Prevent problems from arising and you are twice as smart and valuable as he who merely solves them after they have become a nuisance. There is still hope when either a good Democrat or Republican can make a sincere speech on American idealism which will find a responsive chord in the heart of a mixed OF Do you squint? Word blur? Our Glasses stop these ills. Glasses May Be Had On Easy Payments Optometrist 120 W. Center SLOANS BRAINSTORM ON WAGES AND HOURS All Union Mined A defense of the low wages and long hours which many employers force hundreds of thousands of working men and women to accept featured a message sent by Alfret P. Sloan, Jr., chairman of the General Motors Corporation, to the companys 375,000 stockholders, in a communication on the trend o ' business distributed with the June PHONE 357 Provo, Utah Asserting that the nations sys tern of production and distribution of wealth had been unbalanced by too rapid increase in wages anc shortening of hours. Mr. Sloan good-size- d chunks of his ire against the Federal Wage anc Hour Act as a continuation by gov emment fiat of the unbalancing process. What are the wage rates which cause Mr. Sloans wrath to knock the top out of his temperamental thermometer? For the first year after the Act becomes effective employers in the industries covered by it will be required to pay their employes not less than 25 cents per hour with a maximum work week of 44 hours. This amounts to $11 for a full-tim- e week. For the next six years the minimum wage must be not less than 30 cents per hour. For the first year of this six-yeperiod the length of the maximum work week is reduced to 42 hours, or week. For $12.60 for a full-tim- e the next five years the maximum work is reduced to 40 hours and the minimum pay raised to 40 cents an hour by the end of that period When the wage is raised to 40 cents, the workers will receive $16 BEST WISHES TO LABOR TOLDOE 7TOILDOE GENERAL CONTRACTORS PROVO, UTAH WELCOME, LABOR A Red & White Store QUALITY MEATS AND GROCERIES Phones 273 and 274 489 North University 174 W. Center, Phone 86 PROVO, UTAH J SINCLAIR, OPALINE & PENNSYLVANIA MOTOR OILS E. L. (Ernie) HANSEN, Agent FRIEND OF LABOR GHNC1L AIR REFININGPhoneCO. 7th South and University Ave., Provo 190-- W HI -- V' cnMiD dnnib gehsi i rasas heate OiHUMib onge ur Agency, Inc. -- Buy Gas Where You See Sinclair ar Curtis Insurance J J BOOTH The University Market ed Our Best Wishes to Those Who Labor Phone 713 PROVO, UTAH dividend check. E. G. DURNELL 24 So. 4th West. Phone 4 Complete Line BUILDING MATERIALS We Aim to Please Mutual Coal, Gordon Creek Coal, Columbia Coke 40-ho- ur PASTEURIZED MILK AND CREAM AND CHERRY HILL BUTTER Rentals MUTUAL COAL & LUMBER CO. audience. 42-ho- Always Ask Provo We Sell the Earth and Insure Its Contents Real Estate Insurance Bonds Mortgage Loans 163 West Center St. PROVO, UTAH ct Clherry Mill Dairy for Cherry Hill COMPANY The Department Store of Provo IIEAI REALTY COMPANY 44-ho- ur BEST WISHES TO UTAH COUNTY LABOR TAYLOR BROS. See Dr. G. II. Heindselman ic (Paid Political Adv.) You considered the many persons who had a part in bringing it to you. You thought of the coffee growers and transporters and roasters and wholesalers. You recalled the retailer, the clerk, the cook. You may have even pictured all who had a part in producing the coffee tin or bag. Thoughts of the coffee pot, the heat, the cream and the sugar caused an army of many workers to parade before your NIAGARA mental reviewing stand. conAll these and others A drop of Niagara is not much toward or becomes others with itself but it unconsciously sciously by a definite part of an irresistable (Continued on page 8) force. Together with others it can destroy others or through the healLABOR ing, positive forces of electricity it can give life greater significance. TRADE in YOUR Something like this thought has OLD PIANO doubtless often come to you as you drank your morning cup of coffee. FOR A NEW SMALL ONE Liberal Allowance Easy Terms ' BETTER SIGHT , Used Pianos $65.00 Up Eyestrain Causes Headache t A DROP PLAIN THINKING iHe suggested that some of the for a full-tim- e week. revenues be used for an state liquor The contemplated high wages PROVO, UTAH educational which Mr. Sloan visions as still further unbalancing the American system of production and distribution are $11 for a week, ul a for $12.60 Re-eleand, week, a Man of Proven Ability week. timately, $16 for a Personally, Mr. Sloan doesnt YOUR VOTE AND INFLUENCE APPRECIATED have to worry. Last year he is re ported to have been paid a remuneration in the neighborhood of $650,000 for his services to the Democratic Candidate for Sheriff Utah County Run Off Primary Election, September 27 anti-alcohol- r other original producers would get less and people who are trying to live on the interest of life savings would get but the 1 per cent which the chain prtpaganaa claims they were able to pay last year. 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