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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, APRIL 28. 1939 Page 8 MAY DAY contracts which an employer signs in collusion with a union of I NEWS AND COMMENT the workers choice; by calling for disqualifica I tion of trial examiners whom the bosses may not like; and by I (Continued from Page 7) (Continued from Page 7) I had number a of which other will break advancing very little recollection of it. proposed changes I zations; more than 1,000,000 smallpox immunizations; and J L a L a ihh a h a She was very gracious and stated ' more than 1,300,000 dental inspections. Reports on services j Z"'. that they were having a very enY. I The triple program of the NAM, Green and the C. of C. is joyable trip. They were nice peofor crippled children also indicate great progress in restoring to g a life of physical h.oIy matrimony between capital and labor, ple to meet and to listen to. In and usefulness many young people J101 born their public address used who might otherwise go through life with disabling handicaps. however. Rather it is the illegitimate fruit of an intrigue be- - I EigllX'SeTieSSdto 8e,sb minority interests which truly represent neither appreciate the scpni attractions As communities prepare to celebrate May Day Child of the west where they had been, Health Day 1939, they should consider both the outstanding caPlta nor labor. NAM The and the Chamber of Commerce do not repre-- 1 referring ponder Dam and Zion needs of the community and the possibility of meeting those nt the interest, of the majority of fair employer, who have needs with resources at hand. Where emphasis is being placed Sit on nutrition it has been suggested that the community survey accepted the Wagner Act and adjusted themselves to cbllec- - Lake. John and I both enjoyed what is being done to promote good nytrition of mothers and vc bargaining. Their amendments would confuse and upset I the trip immensely, and while it privilege to shake and children. But it is not enough to survey what has been done Iabor relations generally, for the benefit of a minority of em- - Jm been who have defied he law or what is being done. It is.impor.an, o determine what nu.ri- tion projects can be carried, on during the coming year. In similarly Green speaks only for a minority of craft leaders ever shook hands with." some localities the great need may be that of devising means i who are willing to make a deal with anti-labemployers to help families improve their food supply without added ex- - which will endanger all union rights, for the sake of winning I ullA UK INUVJil' penditure; for example, through home and community gardens, some special favors for themselves. canning projects, and cooperative buying. In other commum- He certainly does not speak for the The Stars and Stripes Forever, of the work-tie- s the needed emphasis may be on education or on lunches for era, in the A. F. L. as well as in the C. majority by Elliot Paul, Random House, I. O., who are deter-schochildren or some other aspect of nutrition. publishers, 393 pages, price $2.50. mined to defend the rights and benefits won under the present The Stars and Stripes Forever" The May Day chairmen appointed by the State board of Wagner Act by opposing all amendments. UNS. is a fast moving, thoroughly prohealth will help local communities to plan programs adapted labor novel. Based on an actual to suit local needs and conditions. But May Day Child Health strike and written by an outstanding American novelist whose preDay celebrations will serve to advance the interests of children vious book, The Life and Death d only if they serve to stimulate a program and to ena of Town," was a popular Spanish list the cooperation of all elements of the community. sensation, this new novel by Elliot Paul tells a story which every member of a trade union will 1 his rather than AVAVak & well-bein- I I I Ps S or ol year-roun- A Mothers Prayer ognize as his own. i .1 Everyone remembers the Rem- a message to the Young Democratic! President Koosevelt Clubs of America, at a banquet held on April 9 at the May-- 1 ington-Ran- d strike in Middletown, years a&o when boss flower hotel, Washington, noted that the Democratic party in O, Lord, Thou has put into my keeping the life of this, my and itself cannot elect a President. The Republican party is in the Child same fix. He said that in the coming campaign there is just one agency potent enough to defeat the Democratic party, and He is weak help me to make him strong I x that is the Democratic party itself. He has no knowledge help me to teach him wisdom that Mr. Paul has based his novel I would The message is filled with common sense and is worthy of on keep him always in the sun, that his limbs may be that bitter strike, with appro- straight and hiseet sure in the rough paths of the world: readmg and heeding, therefore the Utah Labor News prints it in I priate changes in the names of ' 1 would nourish his places and people. The town of body with the food gifts of the milch cow full. Meldon might well be Middletown, The Presidents and with the green things of the Earth, that he may be message follows: Starret-Lorin- g could be Remington-RanMy Young Friends: It is to my great regret that I cannot be with and filled with the joy of keen rosy and g and the presyou in this celebration in memory of the first President who demon- ident, Mark health; himself Loring, might strated to the world that democracy was workable. On you now depends pass for I would fail not to Jimmy Rand in disguard him from the terrors of disease, from the future of the Democratic More important even than that, guise. party. crowded places, and from the Judas kisses of unthinking on you depends the future of our country. The story of that . - 1 I 1 I firm-fleshe- d, d, union-bustin- . friends; Party organization is the vehicle by which the mobilized sentiment of the I would teach him the States gets anywhere. If the chauffeurs of the organizadelight of clean skin, clean speech, and tion areUnited wise in picking the course, the going is good and the destinaclean thoughts his mind shall know sunlight as does his tion aimed at is reached. If, on the other hand, they are witless, the body; organization will find itself on a rocky road and the probabilities of flat l would walk with him m the pleasant valleys of Bookland, and j tires and other break-doware so great that the will of the people gets lead him up to the infinite hills where abideth Thy Word; nowh' raeas dIstrss to the Party, of course, and likewise distress to I would give great pictures7 for his !eyes great music for his ear8, the Nation. For in the political and economic situation the al- he shall know nobleness temative m the event of present great gentleness tor his heart, V a failure for our party to keep straight ahead, wherever he finds it, and that it dwclleth as often among is for the country to find itself traveling in the direction exactly op the shadows as in the high places; . posite to that it has in mind. I would teach his hands the blessedness of our political car is not helped by the of work, when that work clamor of the back-se- Progress drivers who point out the apparent smoothness . . is honorable and well done, and that its reward is m the of the detours of compromise and subterfuge, and complain of the speed of our going, doing and not in the praise of other men; I would teach him to be faithful in the tasks of every day, lest ,.Tbe Democratic party of itself cannot elect a President. The publican party is in the same fix. This is fortunate for all of us, for it should catch him sleeping at his post meaiis that no party can continue in power unless its policies are such I wnnlri lair kJrM tn i 15 ,h' dd as it3 basic strength the ten or more millions of votes that are V1 e,of Fa.,h'r "Tor .11 waters, and under the stars, 1 would show him how cast for ideas and ideals, rather than because of the emblem at the top small and how puny is the thing called Man, but how of the ticket the campaign we are now approaching there is just one agency splendid beyond Time and Change is the unconquerable, to defeat the Democratic party, and that is the Demo- potent enough f adventurous soirit of Man x I cratic party itself. It can commit suicide by abandonment of the poli- 1 would do all tnese things and many more for this cies that brought it to power. There is no use fooling ourselves. If we kj, Lord, little bon that Thou hast given into my keeping ?re to have a reactionary regime or if that term is too horrific call But who am I, that have failed so miserably with own ways, lita cnseY?ve regime, you may depend on it that it will be the other my regime. have this grace of Motherhood I to We shall forfeit the multitude of Republican liberals who voted Lord, open mine eyes with Thy Finger of Light, lest in the dark with us in 1932 and 1936 if we shift our ground. Even those men and night of my blindness I lead his trusting feet astray! women, with little or no affiliation with either party and who went with us because we voiced their principles, will quit us in disgust if we throw Alice Rogers Hager. them down now. I ns I hard-foug- through it. We get a close-u- p of their thoughts and actions as human beings fighting for their rights. We get a close-u- p also of an industrialist who is willing to see them shot down before hewill recognize and bargain with the union they had chosen to represent them. This book is not built on the hypocritical pretense of offer- ing both sides of the question." Rather, it is the work of a man who has already looked at both I sides, and found the right side. th Mr. Paul gives us an intimate glimpse of the Mohawk Valley formula in action. The citizens committee, whose members are in hock to, Mark Loring; the fake election held in the plant under Lorings supervision; the forced strike and the rumors of a permanent shut-dowthe finks imported from New York to provoke violence and break the strike; the court injunction to prevent picketing and destroy morale; and finally, when the whole community has een agitated and terrorized, the back to work movement" which reaks the strike and leaves Mark on of the world while Loring We can also destroy our chances by fratricide. No victories are won the strikerstop their two dead bury by shooting at each other. There never was, and never will be, a politi- and nurse their many injured. cal party whose policies absolutely fit the views of all its members. As a sort of to his Where men are at variance with the course their party is taking, it book Mr. Paul preamble has aptly chosen seems to me there are only two honorable courses to join a that extracts from the Wagner Act. The more accurately mirrors their ideas, or to subordinate their party novel itself is a vivid testimonial prejudices and remain loyal. to the need for maintaining this I do not mean by this, of course, that they are not quite within Charta of labor. More efMagna their rights when they seek to change the program. It would be a poor fectively than a dozen political sort of politician or statesman who did not fight for his sincere princispeeches can, it brings home' the ples, but that is a different thing from allying themselves with their clear purpose of the Act as a guar- - ; partys enemies and getting in a stab wherever and whenever they can antee of democracy and the bill of ' do so safely. rights. It demonstrates that the I have pointed out the ways in which our party can destroy itself ; very employers who complain most now may I suggest how victory, which is quite within our reach, can be loudly that the Wagner Act dewon next year? stroys their rights are, like Mark Instead of suicide or fratricide, what is the matter with our own Loring, themselves guilty of floutside? Whenever the party was democratic it won. Whenever it of- ing the basic rights of their emfered the country an ersatz republicanism, the people spurned the imi- ployes and dominating their lives. tation and sent our party to stand in a corner until it had learned its lesAmerican labor needs more son. Unfortunately, it sometimes takes from 10 to 20 years to accom- novels like The Stars and Stripes plish the requisite reeducation. Forever. It conveys what the Suppose, for a change, and you know I am frequently accused of biased press will never do, a genbeing devoted to change, we learn our lesson this time without being uine understanding of the viewsent to the corner to meditate ? point of labor in its search for a This country of ours is democratic with a small d." It is never, place in the sun. Because it is his and never will be democratic with a big D," except when the two story, every member of a trade words mean the same thing. union should read it. Highly With the highest hopes and expectations that the Young Demo- praised by critics and by some of crats will continue with their youthful enthusiasm, and yet retain their the nations leaders,-i- t progressive old faith as enunciated by Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson should be read as well by everyone Very sincerely yours, who wants an understanding of FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. working America. at Re-Dea- Strange Triplets When horse and jackass are mated, the offspring is called a mule. When employers and faithless labor leaders get together, the result is a! program to amend the Wagner Labor Act. Such at least appears to be the mixed parentage of some strange triplets that were recently born. The programs of the National Association of Manufacturers, William Green of the A. F. L, and the Chambers of Commerce of the United States to amend the Wagner Act are as similar in many respects as three peas from the same pod. In almost the same language, for instance, the NAM spokesmen, Green and the C. of C. call for free speech for employers (even where this interferes with their employes' freedom or choice of representatives) ; for court review of Labor Board decisions; and for the right of employers to call for elecr tions. Gr een and the standard-beare- r of the NAM, Senator Burke, also 'find themselves in agreement on amendments for compulsory craft division of the workers. 8ti11 in the employers direction with the . ,Green Ses ... Walsh amendments whjch he sponsors, by asking protection for anti-lab- or ht struggle is here, told in the terms of the workers who lived and died, n; |