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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL Page 4 CT 14, 1939 fensive of the present campaign. Friends of labor, progress, and the NLRA should consider that now (Continued page 3) their job of mobilizing forces into the Thomas report. The Ameriof defense for the Act expressions WASHINGTON Under guise can labor movement," Thomas of an is in the crucial stage of resisting investigation of WPA prac- the big said, has come through the lates push. measure the House passed a breakdown of American capitalism tices, authorizing an extension of the Get Busy tac? iJfrl iS Dies committee investigation. The Introduction of the Oppressive sum asked for is $30,000, a tidy vances unchecked. Labor Practices Act of 1939, by Credit for this achievement was sum to add to the $100,000 already Senators Robert M. La Follette given the C. I. 0. by Thomas. He appropriated directly for the and Elbert D. Thomas investigation. Sponsor- marker for the half-wa-y is a proper in ship of the resolution by Congress- the work of the Senate Civilpoint ht aeo,CiLrioin Liberman E. E. Cox of Georgia, and ready to strike to maintain labor's the discussion in the Its provisions House by its ties committee. hard-wo- n labor gains, evetjeady intelliindustrial against espionage, reveal the real objecsupporters, gently and aggressively to reach tives munitioning, and traffic in strike- Obvi-11'::of the investigation. !fca conclusion f of proves, ously it is to conduct a specialized earings investigation of the ahead for the UAW, Thomas said: the coramit-sonn- el The membership of the UAW Workers Alliance and WPA per- - LFartSad A far.,y way Diesand to manufacture e solidar: like k3 1? hm? smears 1940 the achille,T for r campaign. The life of the investigation is lim- - i Tieta,u of labor ennC An ile industry of the United States ited only by the life of the present can m industry which .will lead not Congress, which expires December 3 1940. Cox will be remembered i ' Put behmd it by its 31, i'n A1! L5AS? for his threats progressive violence of physical the productions m every n on- MarcanVita rity of its industrial technics, but against Congressman ilso in its securing for. its workers tonio, president of the Interna- " full measure of economic justice ;ional Labor Defense, when the I was atter conindustrial demoen-y- , testifying against he It8 iask 8 tinuation of the Dies committee, Jli n.If5sva before the Rules committee of the I Ly also recent 1? h? more his for House; rWO NEWSPAPER MEN of America S No, man7 of Workers a Alliance lunching rAKEN BY DEATH on whose activities public representative, in the House lobby, hearingsenemies, have been planned, will when the representative reminded remain unexposed. Support for the him the people back home would Labor Practices Act of Oppressive Lionel Ernest LeRoy Bourne diet not forget his opposition to ade 1939 should be accompanied by Salt Lake City, and Budd Mc- - quate WPA appropriations. demands for continuation of the work of the committee from whose Washington, D. C. Crucial Test Both were our personal friends The biggest campaign yet for investigations it springs. nd companions. Colonel Bourne was an editoria emasculation and destruction of Hokum Bills Titer for the Salt Lake Telegram. the Wagnei Labor Relations Act A concerted drive by the Dies is under way, under the guidance e was a likable man, able committee and allies in House riter and a good conversational of the National Association of and Senate, to itsrailroad through Manufacturers. It was launched, such measures as the with liberal injections of what it Mr. McKillip was on the edi Anti-Alie- n bill be Dempsey may takes to trial staff of the create a false furore, in Labojr the six next weeks. expected during while the Senate EdCommittee on Washington, for the past 10 years. ucation and Labor was postponing The hoppers are choking with such ithrBobaCramer on thMinne1 hearings on proposed amendments. bills already introduced. Making polis Labor Review." He yas Setting of hearings to begin April congressmen understand tht just , marieg and vote their choices practically 1 00 per cent. probably the foremost labor re- II is the signal for the second of- - another alien bill, like the Dempsey bill for example, is a serious threat porter in America. He had an intito American liberties, affecting the mate knowledge of all phases of cease warfare. gers so deep in Rumania's eco the labor movement. constitutional STOP HITLER rights of citizens as ..One trouble is that the clash be . nomic and industrial life that the s, Mr. McKillips from time to time tween the two labor groups is ex- - I11 as is a job that MARCH SHOWS influence of other foreign nations furnished the Utah Labor News on ar I d.ePe tive educa-The- y mos.t by enemies of unionism. tl0nal there will become egligible. with valuable information on la aggerated conducted by their take advantage of the campain The treaty gives the Reich vir bors (Continued from page 1) the political from tion to paint the labor picture in,ow" The Soviets were interested, but tually free access A Rumania's, I nation capital.problems His What Not" dark colors and raise a clamor for were distinctly distant Stalin agricultural, oil, metal and timber column appeared in a number of la- regulation I Support It law. by resources all of which makes no bones of the fact that he she needs. bor publications and was A "Take an necessary eagerly article companion bill to the Labor entitled, consummation of this im digested by the readers. . regards Mr. Chamberlain in par-- And the Must Behave Or Else, in a Wall Senate Oppressive Labor Practices ticular, and British foreign policy mensley important treaty brings Street organ, for example. The Act of 1939 is the bill to curb the in general, with extreme doubt as I up the question of German-Rus-sia- n cites numerous alleged sins use of the National guard in labor writer LABOR MUST SET ITS relations again. to its basic motives. of the unions and professes to see disputes, H. R. 5270, introduced by OWN HOUSE IN ORDER Ukrane Not Needed Poland, a key nation if the a public, symphony of condemna- - Congressman John M. Coffee of It has been, widely believed that agreement were to be worth the ion that will put': labor in its Washington. Every indication of Detroit Allied Trades Printing paper it was to be written on, said Hitler desired Soviet Ukraine Council is place.! ' If the public emo- - support for this measure, sent to seta move jroper for pushing No. The Polish foreign minister, above all else. But with the grasp AFL-CIion described tlement of difficulties. by the writer aims the House Military Affairs commit-;- o Josef Beck, has been called, right he now has on Rumanian raw ma- - The labor in a strait-jacke- t, situation put in is it is I tee, and to Congressman Coffee, labor present ly or wrongly, the most astute and I terials, the experts are coming to bad medicine, the council due for a in will help bring it closer to passage. surprise. says most unscrupulous foreign minister the opinion that he will not find effect. de- Labor will It declares the demand for progress continue, in Europe, and he is fairly well sat- the Ukraine necessary. And that labor unity must be backed up by spite the wishful thinking of its I There is certainly no beauty on isfied to let British and France man mean that he will at last seek mass of union members. erlf.mes Ds progress, however, earth which exceeds the natural sweat. His ace in the hole is a peace with Russia. This might - We support see in the presidents call toull be faster if it sets its own loveliness of woman. J. Pepit pact with Germany take the terms of a I . for labor peace a warning that un- house in order. Senn. whose expiration date is 1944, and , pact, such as he has with Po- - less labor does achieve unity there he apparently believes it is to Hit- - land, will be a distinct possibility of nalers interest to keep his word to And if that should happen, Hit-th- e tional legislation for the control of letter in Polands case. lers power over Europe would ob- - unions, the council adds. Rumania's Position viously become unlimited. Whatever one may think of the Rumania was in the difficult po-If Britain and France were no council's opinion of the president's sition of wanting to say Yes, and longer able to regard Russia as a is hard to avoid the conit appeal, not being able to. For King Carols potential ally in case of trouble, clusion that rich little kingdom is today in the they would be almost pitifully in- movement is the split in the labor doing labor no good most precarious position of any effectual in opposing Hitler. And lefore the of public opinion. court European power. If he threw in his Russia would be free to turn her Clashes between the two big la-jlot whole hog, with Britain and attention to Asia, where she has groups, especially in the far France, there is a definite danger I vital interests, reaction against that Germany would attack and What it all seems to add up to west, are bringing in labor organized general, .in the Carol seems to be somewhat du-- 1 now, is this: Hitler is still going orm of movements for repressive bious as to whether his proposed places, and the farther he goes the eislation of various kinds. (Labor I allies, put to the acid test, would better he becomes able to go far-d- o is fighting these move naturally more for him than they did ther still with nothing more im-f- ments, which menace American lib any dissolved Czechoslovakia. Andlportant than diplomatic corre-the- re is always the chance, he feels, I spondence and conversations in his erty. But the situation does call for labor setting its house in order, that if he plays ball with Hitler, way. by ending its family row and by his country will maintain at least j U. S. Ups Duties with practices that I a nominal independence. In this country, we are seeing, doing away condemnation. public bring Carol is playing ball with Hit- - j to a small extent, the result cf Public often swings to ler, and with a vengeance, as the German aggression. Duties have extremes. opinion now there is some Just German-Ruma-niterms of the new been upped 25 per cent on imports real it that may swing far economic treaty, disclosed in from Czechoslovakia, and all other to danger side of the unless the reaction, synopsis form on March 25, attest. German-conquere- d areas. labor is in some way, adjusted split As an AP dispatch phrases it, t 9ur American foreign policy is or to either agreement by unity as it Germany will soon have her fin-- 1 about as strongly anti-Nacould be, and diplomatic relations are strained. But there seems to be little sentiment here for giving the European democracies more than our ESTABLISHED 1887 moral support and a modicum of economic support. And in the All Deposits Guaranteed up to $5,000.00 meantime, we are being forced to build up the greatest war machine Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in our history against the possibilthat Hitler will one day menace ity Main Street at Broadway Salt Lake City some country or some territory in which we have a direct interest. SENATOR NELSON URGED TO ENTER RACE FOR GOVERNOR IN 1940 NEWS AND COMMENT WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER from I ; ullTZ "" "pwXfTar J, J -- otr I , :. J i ' erienun'rihrpirk: , non-;itizen- I O non-aggressi- on non-aggressi- on or : or an . zi 5TEMJ0E m, |