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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 19, 1939 7 Page Build Utah to the Glory of Utah Boys and Girls Patronize Home-Owne- d Institutions Read the Utah Labor News Or The Wall Slreel Cavalry Charges On the Peoples Progress The financial moguls in recent weeks have been bubbling over withcheerfulness and renewed hope as the economy bloc coalition in Congress brightens their prospect of recouping their "Roosevelt losses," and therefore they are intensifying their attack on the New Deal and its laws with enthusiasm. They have publicly expressed their cheer over the success of their strategy in Washington of maneuvering the dissident Gamer Democrats into , playing- the game of the Big Business G. 0. P. hirelings, and privately they are elated at the unexpected ease with which they have been able to force a Congressional capitulation to the wishes s. of the The drive is being extended all along the line, and with the help columns of the of the is hoped the it press, reactionary effort will instil a defeatist spirit into the ranks of the New Deal followers and progressive and labor-forcegenerally. The danger that this defeatism might make serious inroads into the general mass of the voters is apparent, and to that end Wall Street is stretching every muscle and exercising every oratorical organ. It wants the voters to believe that Roosevelt is through, that It can now be taken for granted that business cannot prosper with the New Deal, that the Republicans will win in 1940 by default because the Democrats are hopelessly divided, and that there is no chance whatever to stop the disintegration of the New Deal that obviously has set in. Pinch-Hitte- r Lippmann Thus, Walter Lippmann, one of the most voluble of the Big Business apologists, argues that the failure of the New Deal purge, and the Republican gains in the 1938 elections, marked the end of a political era. The New Deal lost control of the Democratic party, and the divided party is On the way to lose the country. And, after egotistically accepting his' own opinion as gospel, Lippmann analyzes the reasons the New Dealers find themselves in that position and suggests what Mr. Roosevelt must do to extricate himnself. And this is the suggested procedure for Mr. Roosevelt if he is to restore his lost prestige: By sponsoring promptly an outright repeaji of the capital gains tax, he (Roosevelt) may still at this late date be able to induce such a tide of speculation and investment that he can float his administration off the - budget-balancer- well-greas- ed s rocks on which it is now foundering. And there you have it in a Lipp- mann nutshell. Hooverism itself couldnt have said it any more succinctly, the idea being that if the New Deal laws for the publics protection were relaxed to allow the Wall Street boys to grab profits commensurate with the risk, then striking capital and its monopolistic owners will stop sabotaging the countrys economic machinery and go to work. The contention that greedy capital was on strike and a traitor to the nation was loudly denied in the early years of the New Deal, but now it is proclaimed A BABY CHICKS . Feed and Poultry Supplies 2262 Wash. Blvd. Ogden Anderson Hatchery 7 Before Decoration Day Bring Your Tire Troubles to TOM POORMAN Your General Tire Man 2586 Wash. Blvd., Of dtn. Ph. 346 shamelessly as a virtue, and broadcast as a challenge on a bend the knee or else basis. It is of the utmost urgency that this challenge be accepted and that the progressive forces in the nation awaken to the Fascist peril in the present Big Business drive. Unified and compelling resistance to these brutal attacks is more essential at this stage of the crisis because the wolf pack is in full cry, having scented a measure of uncertainty, and it means to keep its victims on the run to delike a cavalry charge, struction as one Wall Street hopeful expressed it. The hue and cry to give business a chance is deliberately designed to stampede the voters away from the New Deal, and in the meantime, give the back-stag- e strategists time to plan further onslaughts on the living standards of labor in the interests of worthwhile profits for capital. Attacks on Many Fronts The attacks are being made on many fronts, not the least important of which is to make the counas the Wall try Street Journal phrases it. Part of effort was the that mass assault on Albany and the Lehman budget for New York state, engineered from Wall Street in the manner of the Tory drive against reorganization of the Supreme Court. It is hoped to create widespread disaffection in tax matters, more to discredit the New Deal and Roosevelt thah in the hope of drastic amelioration in taxes at the moment, because it is generally accepted that huge expenditures for the national defense are necessary now and the government must get a large portion of these funds from taxes. Besides, the arms program revives memories of the fat profits of yesteryear. One significant aspect of the recent move by the economy bloc in Congress, to take full 'charge of spending and tax policies, is that the Treasury Department has been maneuvered into a position where it is forced to play ball with the budget balancers; and only mass protests from the general populace in support of Roosevelt policies in Congress will alter the present prospect. Pleasant Dreams The Street was tremendously encouraged last month by the Supreme Courts Fansteel Metallurgical company decision which makes it plain that the laws protection n strikdoes not extend to ers. The decision, says the Journal of Commerce, will give new impetus to the drive to amend the Wagner Act. The paper continues: Employer pressure is now better coordinated, and the A. F. L. is determined to see the changes made. The decision immediately set Wall Street corporation lawyers to work figuring out ways and means to hullify labor contracts, and presented ominous possibilities for unscrupulous employers to provoke violence in strikes in order to allow wholesale firings of militant union men on the ground that they are lawbreakers. The Street sees in the decision a potency to weapon of keep unionism suppressed through intimidation and to increase the clauses in lanumber of bor contracts. Big Business was quick to grasp the opportunity for tax-conscio- tax-conscio- us sit-dow- far-reachi- no-stri- KING COAL FLIRTED WITH DISASTER (Continued from page 1) done, and we say that the coal industry should not permit itself to be used as a catspaw in this situation. what he Explaining further meant by outside interests, Lewis declared that these include independent steel companies, utilities, railroads and large consumers of coal employers who detest collective bargaining and feel that the establishment of collective bargaining in the coal industry will destroy their present conditions. Drive An Open-Sho- p The United Mine Workers fought the battle of all organized labor in the recent lockout which came to a successful ending with the signing of closed union shop contracts with the operators during the past few days. The worlds most powerful labor union, the U. M. W. of A., is the backbone of the C. I. 0. It has done more than any other organization to bring the benefits of unionism and collective bargaining to millions of previously unorganized workers. In concentrating their recent unsuccessful attack on the United punitive measures. The very day the decision was printed on the news tickers, there were announcements that disciplinary action had been taken by several companies against union workers. Chrysler Corporation fired one man and laid off three others for a few weeks for their part in a strike at the companys plants a week previous; two companies in New Jersey fired about three hundred men who took strike; and there part in a was general comment that these actions would be followed by others. sit-do- CONSUMER NOTES (Continued from page 6) under four grades: U. S. Special the kind to buy for convalescents. Rarely sold in retail markets. May be marked Retail Grade AA. U. S. Extras top grade in for most markets; satisfactory breakfast eggs; may be marked Retail Grade A. U. S. Standard satisfactory for. cooking and eating; if sold under seals authorized by the Department of Agriculture, must be marked Retail Grade B. U. S. Trade suitable for cooking and especially for preparing dishes where egg flavor does not count much. Grading of eggs by the Department of Agriculture is done only at the request of shippers and marketing agencies. Egg grading service will be given to any egg dealer inwilling to pay the small cost statare volved wherever graders ioned. The cost averages about of a cent per dozen. h Some states also grade eggs. You can easily find out if there are such laws in your state and check up on the meaning of the state grades." should take note of this fact. Thanks to the United Mine Workers, the C. I. 0., and the majority of the A; F. L. membership, interests received a the open-sho- p fiMine Workers, the anti-labblow week that should be last body nancial and industrial interests a lesson to them forever to keep aimed to destroy all effective Union their noses out of negotiations beorganization. tween labor and industry. If they had attained any measure of success in the recent fight, they A Welcome, Fellows would have followed this advandrives tage by launching open-sho- p in every other industry. WHITE Treachery to Labor If the coal operators came near (FZPCDj TOP Hill casoum being suckers enough to let themselves be used as a catspaw for interests outside their industry, what Highway 91, South Payson can be said for alleged labor men who also play the game of these Beer - Lunches ? p interests open-shoGas Oil William Greens attack on the miners demands, in the midst of Open Day and Night the struggle, makes comparison with Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold seem unjust to those classic betrayers. REMEMBER True, he (Green) performed a the similar act of treachery against You Are Always Welcome auto workers when they were Here and We Are Always locked in conflict with General GLAD-2-C-Motors. But this time hisstab in the back was directed against the DONS CAFE very union which raised him to prominence. The Place of Good Food It was also perpetrated at a time Fried Chicken and Steak when this union was holding back Dinners Our Specialty drive which threatan open-sho- p ened every labor organization in 66 No. Main Payson, Utah the country, A. F. L. as well as Friends of Labor C. I. 0. Not Isolated Fortunately, the United Mine Workers were by no means isolated in this struggle. They have behind Always Welcome, Labor them the strength not only of their of own mighty union but also powerful industrial unions in the steel, auto, rubber, electrical, metal mining and smelting, oil and other industries. Hardware Auto Supplies The United Mine Workers union Radios Washing Machines was practical and farsighted, as Refrigerators Bicycles, Etc. well as idealistic, when it threw its of resources into organization THE FRIENDLY STORE these industries.' Before the C. I. 0. the United MARTIN NARUM, Owner Mine Workers of America was a stronghold of unionism surrounded Payson, Utah ever by a sea of threatening to encroach upon it. Now it is bulwarked by strong unions in surrounding industries, I Welcome and Best "Wishes and by the more general acceptance to Organized Labor of collective bargaining throughout so done the country which it has much to bring about. interests are The. open-sho- p FARMERS more the all desperately fighting because now they must engage, not MERCANTILE a single battalion but a whole army I of labor. But the CO-O- P are fighting a losing battle. Neither labor nor the general public will tolerate indefinitely the PAYSON, UTAH j national disaster which these interests are ready to court for the sake Friends of Labor j of destroying collective bargaining and those who hold public office or A U 7 Gamblo Store mass-producti- non-unionis- m open-shoppe- , rs Send Your Subscription to the Utah Labor Flews one-fift- Best Wishes JOHN KUIINI & SONS Pay Highest Prices for NOW! Dead or Useless Animals . on Only $1.50 a Year Call 680, Provo s Keep up with the progress of developing Utahs great resources. Encourage the fight against interstate ng , chain monopolies. ke Best wishes to the Miliners, Their Wives and Families WILSONS STYLE SHOP TOMORROWS FASHIONS TODAY Friends of Labor Payson, Utah Address Utah Labor flews ; i 28 South 4th East Street Salt Lake City |