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Show w i k 1 Page f UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE 30, 1939 2 NEWS AND COMMENT UtafrUafor ietoa A Established 1929 ' (Continued from page 1) covered and were getting along MEMBER OF THE splendidly. Jay Franklin, a usual, handled his side of the question well and he put his adversary in a hole, butreathe mention to failed principal sons why the small northern European nations are enjoying normalcy and prosperity. And, by the way, thtf reasons are the very things Mr. Sullivan and his Tory partisans are bitterly opposed to in the United States. We take the little Republic of Finland as an example and enumerate some of the reasons why it has no unemployment and enjoys prosperity. First Finland has no privately-owne- d public utilities. The counowns its railroads, power try plants, radio systems, telephone and telegraph. Second Finland owns its forests and conserves them for public benefit. It has not allowed Weyer-hause- rs and other timber thiefs to rob the country of its forest lands as is the case in the United This paper receives Union News Service, a C. I. O. Affiliate o matter March 28, 1930, at the post office Entered as second-clas- s at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates by request. Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. Publisher M. I. THOMPSON Office Manager L. M. THOMPSON We stand for what the Constitution stands for the establishment of justice, and domestic tranquility, the promotion of the general welfare. UTAH LABOR NEWS. two-thir- trespassing AT THE CAPITAL (Continued from page 1) of the new bill are: It makes allowance for the carrying over losses for two years, making possible deduction of these losses from profits; it makesof allowance for capital gains; complete offset repeals undistributed profits tax. The real object of big business is clearly to unbalance the budget in order to force this, or the next administration, to cut relief and farm payments. RESOLUTIONS HIT JAPAN Although by this time the House probably will have acted on the neutrality question, there remains the fight in the Senate. There has been Increased demand for some sort of pressure against Japan, And among the amendments the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is considering this week are the Schwellenbach and, Pittman reso- lutions. Pittmans resolution, introduced some weeks back, deals specifically with violators of the nine power pact. In the more recent Schwellenbach resolution violators of any treaties with the United States are hit. The country, of course, which both resolutions have in mind js Japan. G. O. P. MAKES KNOWN STAND ON RELIEF Its what a political party does rather than what a political party promises that constitutes its real platform. The G. 0. P. position on relief was written in the relief bill as passed by the House. It says: Give to the relief client as little as possible, regardless of whether that amount is sufficient to maintain the health of the American people or not. Make relief to the relief client as humiliating as possible so that he will prefer death by slow starvation rather than accept the bitter crumbs held out to him. Combined with Bourbon Democrats in the House, the Republicans proved invulnerable to all attacks by liberals. Here are some of the reactionary phases of the bill as passed by the House which held out like a stone wgll against the assaults of public works which included a nati- on-wide highway system, dredging of swamp lands and building of power dams, employing workers laid off by private industry, ' As result of this wise planning Finland did not feel the world depression as did America and some other nations where private capital controlled the government. ROBERT HESKETH IS SERIOUSLY ILL Robert B. Hesketh, general secretof the Hotel and And, for the benefit of Mr. Sul- Restaurant Workers and Bartendlivan, we will say that as soon as ers Alliance and editor of the (Continued on page 3) the United States adopts a proof the to Repubthat similar gram lic of Finland unemployment and j WELCOME, FELLOWS poverty will disappear but not Bring It To urftil then. Avoided Depression WALTS Because of wise planning FinTOP & GLASS CO. land did not experience the sufferin the years of ing America did 1929-193Auto Tops Recovered and Herbert Hoover, Repaired deIn the midst of the world Glass Auto Installed While pression, in 1931, a member of the You Wait visited Finnish Presidents cabinet COVERS SEAT He trains. Salt Lake City between UPHOLSTERING spent three hours in the Utah LaFLOOR MATS short News that office. bor During States. first-han- d infor624 So. me Was. 4519 he State visit a has Third Finland gave cooperative Finin conditions on the of mation because and marketing system of the consumer land. this He told me that when privately-owne- d dollar does not go to middlemen Labor, Call Hy. 3872 industries laid off their and transportation systems as is workers because of drop in export the case in America. For Real Good Grade A Fourth Finland owns and regu- trade Finland adopted a plan of lates its own money and banking GUERNSEY MILK system. Tom Joe I Sicilianoand Fifth Finland subsidizes all Campanaro, Props. PHONE TODAY drama, arts, including music, and literature. painting, athletics Sixth Finland has no multimil- - $1.50 per annum Subscription lionaires nor paupers. Seventh Finland owns all of its mineral lands and mining rights. Eighth Finland owns all of its power and dam sites. Enough said to prove that Finland is prosperous because its government has protected the rights of the Finnish people at all times. Each of the things that makes Finland prosperous is being opposed by. Tory Congressmen in the United States and those whom Mark Sullivan so loyally defends in his newspaper articles and in his radio ary-treasurer 3. ds the liberals: The Federal Theater project was kjlled and the other arts projects were given poison; a three-ma- n board to administer WPA was set up, creating a debatn ing society in place of the of administrator; $125,000,000 WPA funds was earmarked for PWA; a limit of $50,000 for construction projects was set; a starvation vacation of 60 days for al Vito Marcantonio, (A. L.), persons who had been on WPA for 1933. 18 months, with certain exceptions N. Y., I want to take this occasion to congratulate the was created. gentleman (Charles L. Gifford, (R.), Mass.), When trusts and monopolies, and all of his colleagues who folrailroads and the like, ask Uncle lowed .Herbert Hoover in 1932, beSam for some money, it does no cause this bill is a great monucome within the category of relief, mental vindication of the Hoover although there is an understand- Relief doctrine. , . . Emanuel Cel-le- r, (D.), N. Y., The Federal Art ing on both sides (the people may not be taken in on it) that it is no Theater has brought the drama to to be repaid. This is plain mooch- the hinterland, into every nook and ing from the government for which cranny, as it were, in the United the man in overalls ultimately pays Michael J. Bradley, (D.) , Pa., but it meets with G. O. P. approve because it comes within the fake This bill represents the philosophy classification of sound recovery. of the Republican party in dealing with the unemployed in this counThere is some talk that Repre- try. Compton T. WTiite, (D.), sentative Woodrum, Virginia, is Idaho, (to Allen T. Treadway, (R.), going to ask for $20,000 so that his Mass.), The gentleman says that House committee to investigate the he was in favor of relief from taxation. I wonder which he regards WPA can continue its smear. as the more important, relief from WHEN THE HOUSE taxation or relief from starvation? Samuel Dickstein, (D), N. WENT TO THE MAT ON THE RELIEF BILL Y., In my opinion these provisions were adopted by the framers E. Mass., Joseph Casey (D.), When I consider the treatment of of this measure for the purpose of the amendment to restore the making work relief a failure. This amount asked by the budget anc is not a relief bill; it is a starvathe President to W. P. At and the tion bill. John Coffee, (D.), treatment of that amendment by an Wash., As far as I am personally almost solid Republican bloc com- concerned, I do not believe that bining with a reactionary Demo when a man goes on relief or cratic bloc, I am not insensible to works for the WPA he should forthe fact that this amendment (Cas- feit his American citizenship. If ey amendment) does not stand any a man wants to run for justice of great chance of adoption. Michae the peace, wants to run for memJ. Kirwan, i(D.), Ohio, If we drop ber: of a park board, or wants to America back to where she was run for a position, it from 1930 to 1933, we may get by seems to me we should not prohibit him for exercising that right. the voters, but we will have tough time getting by God. Kent Jerry Voorhis, (D.), Calif., BudgE. Keller, (D..), III., As now writ- et estimates or no Budget estiten, this is a bill to promote star mate, the fact remains that we vation instead of a bill to prevent need at least 3,000,000 WPA jobs starvation. Children of the poor in this country today if each unemare falling off 2M inches short of ployed family is to have a chance their proper stature. Everett M. to have the breadwinner at work. Dirksen, (R.), 111., Let me offer this concluding observation with Representative J. Thorkelson berespect to the bill. This is the best lieves that it is American for the relief and work relief bill I have likes of him to go on the radio and seen come into the Congress since defame members of a minority race, but that it is for members of the minority race to investigate these lies and expose them over the radio. one-ma- cteb&tcs ; r' I CAPRI Italian Restaurant Where Cooking is an Art Air Conditioned. 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Prior to the election, the big manufacturers and industrialists, had a unique custom. Instead of paying their workers with checks, they paid them in cash. All well and good. But the big boys needed protection on pay days when the money was carted from the banks so what did they do but use the San Antonio police as guards for the money bags. (Continued on page 3) ' ' A ' a S w FRIEND 5iiiiiiiiioiiiiiiiimiaii!iii!iii!iaiimminiDiiiiiiiiiiiioiiiiiiiiimBiiiiiiiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiQiiiiiiiimiBiiiiiii!iiiiuiiimiiinitn |