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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. MARCH 3, 1939 Qi?li;Ga Page tmttsr i?GGttc iroraBnoi?Gii OQQEnrjfinDGG3 (SooHFJoEsg UJtfoEn I?c,cipGi?0iBOcEGa(3 tiEno Hillman Urges Confab (o Seek Rise in Income NEWS AND COMMENT (Continued from page 1) speculators, DES MOINES (UNS) Sidney Hillman, vice president of the C. I. O, and president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, sounded a call last week for a national conference of labor, agriculture, industry and government for the reconstruction of American economic life. Speaking at the third annual National Farm Institute at the Fort Des Moines hotel, Hillman urged farmers to unite with industrial workers so that both may secure a fair share of the national income. "De ffrmer of America seek the answer to one thing," he said. Agricultural income declined, never to recover, from 16 billions in 1919 to nine billions in 1921, and never again rose above ing which if met, would tax the 11 billions. capacity of our existing industrial The farmers share in the na- plants. . tional income dropped from 18 per cent in 1919 and 15 per cent in 1920 to nine per cent in 1928. Why did it fall, and how can it be recovered? Labors Share Meager At the same time, Hillman pointed out, Labors share in the fruits of national prosperity in the twenties was also meager. While from 1923 to 1929 industrial output increased by 29 per cent, real wages advanced only 4.5 per cent. Our national economy failed to distribute to the two great customers of industry the purchasing power necessary to buy back the product of its expanded plant. Quoting U. S. figures to show that an enormous potential demand for farm products existed, and could become effective if purchasing power were high enough, Hillman declared: We have at home a vast untapped market capable of absorbing all our agriculture and industry can produce. The Department of Agriculture estimates, that to provide an adequate diet for our population, would require a 40 . per. cent increase in farm production; the sowing of another 32 per cent acreage of com, increasing our cow herd by 68 per cent, hogs by 69 per cent and similar increases in other farm products. ) Urges Cooperation Hillman pointed out that ' an equitable share for all in the national income would only be secured mutual trust and cooperation between farmers and workers, as well as government and industry. This, he explained, is the democratic and American way of solving a national problem of increasing difficulty. Every responsible leader of labor, agriculture and industry as well as the overwhelming majority of the American people reject the alien contention that the problem of want can be solved only by abandoning our heritage of freedom and democracy, he concluded. At this critical hour, the heavy burden falls upon us in America to prove to the world and to history that democracy can offer a constructive and progressive solution of the problems of our contemporary society. AMERICAN WAY INDIANAPOLIS (UNS) Suplaw porters of a little wage-hofor Indiana have found examples of wages of two and three-quartecents an hour in Indianapolis and 126-howeek in Richmond. ur rs ur No wintry blast can chill friend- Dietary deficiencies are equalled ship or rob us of the warmth of by the need for clothes and hous good wishes. Males Market I Your Friendly Grocer VEGETABLES MEATS GROCERIES Friend of Labor Owned and Operated by Max Bertola PRICE, UTAH Telephone 560 law. There were also white slaves, consisting of paupers who because they did not pay their debts, either here or abroad, therefore became felons who could be bound over to masters for & period of years, during which they and their descendants became the private property of the masters. Theoretically, they differed from the black slaves only in that the latter were to be permanently enslaved, while the former were supposed to have a limitation on the number of years they were to be enslaved. Actually, they were worse off than the Negro slaves, because for the Negroes a price had to be paid, and they were valuable property for whose welfare the masters were bound to be concerned, while no such investment protected the white slaves. And, finally, there were the Negro slaves, brought here by force from other countries under conditions which were infinitely worse than cattle were transported. Class Distinctions Class distinctions were even greater than they are today. The rich were not so fabulously rich as the rich of today are. Their wealth did enable them to control the destinies of millions of people, as wealth permits its owners to do today, But it was sufficient to give them the leisure which they required, and which' they spent, 'as historians have pointed out, in drinking, balls and concerts. The Iabot performance of any sort-o- f was regarded as a disgrace. In some places the poor were supposed to ' wear clothes that would readily distinguish them from the rich. In Virginia, particularly, then the largest and most influential of the colonies, there was t SAN FRANCISCO GSgq Co. Master Sign Craftsmen Salt Lake City Ogden INSTITUTION A HOME-OWNED profited enormously, making him one of the richest men of that time, and because he provided the leadership for the adoption of a Constitution which was a complete departure, at least in its original and unamended form, from the Declaration of Independence which proclaimed the doctrine that all men are created free and equal, these historians have sought to minimize his contribution to the establishment of the Republic which was in grave danger of complete destruction for many years after (Continued on page 8) Welcome MICKEYS PLACE The Home of the Scotch Meat Pie We Serve a Special Meat Union House Lunch Phone 282 Price, Utah wards which came with indepen- The Schoolboy Version As to George Washington, the schoolboy version is a very simple one. He never told a lie. When he chopped down the cherry tree and when he was facing punishment for doing so he readily admitted his guilt, because he could not tell an untruth. From this, of course, the youngster obtained an unbalanced picture of George Washington, of the part he played in the Revolution, of the benefits which resulted from the Declaration of Independence, and of the Constitution which he did so much to have ratified when the rich were sponsoring it and the poor were denouncing it. The picture is, to say the least, somewhat distorted, and, to put it mildly, slightly at variance with the historical facts. Another Washington Historians who have uncovered the material which has disproved the schoolboy version of George Washington and the Revolutionary Best Wishes to Labor BECKEL PACKING COMPANY The Home Livestock Market of Eastern Utah era have gone to the other extreme. Because Washington was a great landowner, because he was a r, because he belonged to the aristocracy and engaged in slave-holde- BEST WISHES TO LABOR FAWCETT and PESSETTO GENERAL BUILDING CONTRACTORS PRICE, UTAH See and Drive a 39 UTAH AUTO COMPANY -Th- irty-five Price, Utah Phone 242 land speculation from which he Welcome, Labor hundred employes of the Shell Oil company in the state of California looked forward to working under their first union agreement. A state-wid- e contract negotiated by the Oil Workers International Union, C. I. O., awaited expected ratification by the six participating locals before going into o dence. i SHELL SIGNS C. I. O. PACT IN WEST Union News Service) Best Wishes Yoaas EEcctoSc traders, bankers, sometimes smugglers, and the officials. The poor consisted of the mechanics to whom we have already referred, supposedly free, but whose wages ran from about 30 to 50 cents a day. If there was any danger that these wages would rise because of scarcity of labor, laws were passed limiting the amount of wages that could be paid. There was no objection then to establishing a maximum wage by a class aristocracy, which dominated the social, political, and economic life of the state. So great were the differences between the two classes, and so intolerable and revolting the conditions under which the poor lived, that in some places clashes would break out, which were ruthlessly supressed. This picture of conditions at the time we won our political independence from Great Britain is one which is not taught in the public schools. The story which is given to the children, which they carry with them through life, is that the colonists were all alike the victims of British oppression; that if it Were not for the obnoxious and repressive measures that England imposed they would have been a free and happy family, having a community of interests; that all of them alike rose to defy Great Britain, and alike shared in the re- Ac-l- Incorporated Fender Repairs, Body Repairs, Service, Parts, Accessories, Painting Day or Night Towing Dealers in Studebaker, De Soto and Plymouth Motor Cars International Trucks Price, Utah 26 No. First West Telephone 29 ? effect. OUR SINCERE BEST WISHES TO ORGANIZED LABOR OF CARBON AND EMERY COUNTIES PE.TOM FUNEOAL HKSOS PRICE, UTAH PHONE 29 Utah Distributing Co. Ask for and Drink Fishers and .Budweiser Beer. 100 Per Cent Union Made Exclusive Agents for Carbon - Emery Grand - San Juan Counties Also Soldier Summit TONY FRUGNI, Mgr. 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