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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. JULY 31. 1936. James Kennedy of Park City Writes to Paul Peterson Utalj Halior Jetos A MEMBER OF TUB Established 1929 Thla paper receives the American Federation of Labor News Service. Iark City, Utah. Editor Utah Lubor News; Will you kindly permit space for the following: Mr. Iaul Ieterson, president, State Federation of Labor: In the last issue of the "labor bulletin I' note your challenge for proof ol some previous claims I made rela tive to your brief career in the la 04 Entered aa second-clas- s matter March 28, 1930, at the post office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription II AO per annum Advertising rates bj request. brI movement. am disappointed to find that you fail to either deny or confirm them as based on fact, hence, I am justified for the present to conclude that as to farts, you are in full ac. cord, but will help you refresh your memory. You surely have not forgotten when you came up here with two stalwart Republicans and spoke in a public meeting in favor of a petition opposing increased taxation on mines, and was it not a part of Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at 24 Utah. Soutlf 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Telephone Was. 2981. M. I THOMPSON L. M. THOMPSON Publisher Office Manager - LABOK RECORD OF THE G. 0. I. CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT (Continued from page 1) ing to reports received by us, while the wives and children of these men sleep on piles of straw for want of bedding. Record of Wages "3 The governors record on state minimum wage legislation guarantees nullification of even the weak and misleading proposals of his platform. Until July, 1925, Kansas had a minimum wage law for women and children. In that month the state supreme court killed the law. Governor Lannon never made a move to protest and he has never sought to procure enactment of legislation to replace the invalidated law. He has accept, ed the courts reactionary verdict and has proven himself content with the result which has penalized the women and child workers of Kansas. 4 Governor Landon has kept Kansas a prohibition state, with the result that the state has been "beset with the ghastly evils of bootlegging and violation of law that drove the nation to repeal the eighteenth amendment and to adopt heroic efforts to wipe out the organized crime and gangsterism resulting from prohibition. Labor always opposed prohibition. Fails to Enforce I.aw Governor Landon has failed to procure enforcement of the Kan. sas law requiring payment of prevailing wages on public works and fixing an day. This law, un 5 Distributors Elate your party platform? Surely you have not forgotten der Governor Landon, has been a your promise to the local union dead letter. that you would sponsor a bill to 6 Here is the idea of working abolish the physical examination of g hours for women Jn Kansas under workers, and while you are over the air as you frequently Governor Landon: The Kansas De. day, have you partment of Labor and Industry do about the makes no attempt to fix minimum forgotten the times innumerable wages for women and children in when you delayed the whole mine the Silver King mine industry, but it makes some at- shifts in for you, and you alone, waiting to maximum hours. tempt stipulate worked while overtime, even you As last amended in February, 1930, as now, the time rewhile the governors campaign for though then, is 8 hours? the nomination was. under full quired Have you forgotten, while the headway, the Department of Labor I unjon committee was advocating I and Industry established a the adoption of a day before week in the mine owners in Salt Lake you day and a 4JV6 to laundries; a day and a 6- - interposed as president of the local of 40 week hours to unjon and said then and there that day 54 hours in manufacturing; an I t.he proposition was not feasible ? week in And for 8uch conduct you should, day and hotels and restaurants; a an( would have, no doubt, been, week of 48 hours for telephone tried and expelled were it not for' employes, except for night operators who may be employed for 12 continuous hours including rest blat-tin- ur ur I 52-ho- ur ur 48-ho- ur the influence used quietly by one who has lived to regret it. As for the lease you ere optnt-in- g under, I would suggest tj let it be its own best evidence, say have a copy of it published so that union workers of the state might judge for themselves as to the kind lf.VSr J?1 melt I & THE NEW DEAL I un-h- non-unio- 314-31- PACIFIC Nmm I Indus-force- compul-famou- as OR m mm Suite Utah Power & Light Co. Newhouse Bldg. Was. 4098 304-- 7 Labor, Join the Gym Today The privileges of the DESERET GYMNASIUM are within the reach, of the LABORING MAN. The facilities are the best, the program is delightful and health building and the terms very easy. CALL WASATCH 1424 on HSIHE (1:11 IS& n LJoffScoim rJeatt IPSes Served At AH Leading Fountain Lunch Counters ALSO TO FROM BAKERY AT 1142 SO. STATE TAKE-HOM- COMPLIMENTS OF Bingham Metals .Company 169 SOUTH WEST TEMPLE STREET Salt Lake City, Utah Mine at Bingham, Utah ifllxi MAKE NO MISTAKE CO. snraiJ&usv LET UTAHS OLDEST and LARGEST Union Printing Firm Money! Furnish Your Money when needed. When the provider is gone. When the income is cut off. It is a good thing to own. Dont wait for Congress and DESERET GYMNASIUM BEST WISHES TO MEMBERS OF A. F. OF LABOR ASK FOR long-rang- LIFE SEE YOUR DEALER Member of the Salt Lake Stock Exchange old-ag- What Is Life Insurance? Mt Ms as jf I 50-5- INC. 5 130 Pacific Ave. Was. Salt Lake City, Utah than any other method. Ask the Housewife Who Cooks Electrically! Mining Stock Brokers Convenient-Flo- re Economica-l- Company W CO Flore old-ag- anti-labo- WHITE SODA N Cleaner in' Barclay-Feathersto- ne and sleep time which shall not be considered working time, 7 Under Landon Governor there has been no civil service sysAN ANSWER TO REACTIONARY CRITICS tem whatever in Kansas. There no been and has the appropriation governor has sought none. Kansas has had a civil service law for dec-- 1 ades, but the present governor, The Social Security Act who proposes to extend the Federal civil service, has made no move in (Approved Aug. 14, 1935. Public Law No. 271, 74th Cong.) e Provides for the establishment of a system of federal Kansas. "8 Governor Landon has per-- 1 benefits and undertakes to enable the states to make more adequate mitted prison labor to be usedr on provision for aged persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal n labor and child welfare, public health, and the administration of state public works and been employed in renovation of employment compensation laws. Creates a bipartisan Social Security Board three members, to the executive mansion. the program independently of the Department of Labor. administer Opposed ,NRA to be appointed by the Landon opposed decision. Governor Landon not only They are 9 Governor consent of the senate, by President, NRA, except for petroleum code, never repudiated that imposition and serve terms, except that oil well which raised prices for apUp0n labor, but Allen, today one of the first three members owners. of Landons arch supporters, cur- - pointed, one would hold office for sec10 Governor Landon was j rcntly boasts that Fascism in Italy two years, another for four years, retary to Henry J. Allen when is similar to the condition created and the third for six years. Gov. Allen un(jer the Kansas Court of Allen was governor. Authorizes an appropriation of d the establishment of the trial Relations, which is a s $49,750,000 for the current fiscal! and so much as may be needKansas Court of Industrial gory arbitration institution. year, ed thereafter, to enable each state) Relations, which all American la-- 1 jt was made clear at denounced and which it made san League headquarters that this to furnish financial assistance "as a paramount issue until the Court record is not to be con-w- far as practicable under the condistate. to aged needy dormant rendered by judicial gidered It is all we tions in such more than 65 years old. persons make care to public at this time, are authorized on Federal grants said Maj. Berry. The whole 0 basis with the a matching r. And I want to UNIONISTS!! ord is federal gov. the that except states, say that it is the perfectly natur- emments share in no case would al sequence of events to find Gov- exceed $15 a month. ernor Landon, as presidential can- Pension System didate, surrounded by a coterie of e conProvides for a intimate advisers who hold identie system, pension cal anti labor and anti social views. tributory to be financed by an income tax on President Roosevelts record offers employees and a payroll tax on emevery necessary reason for the in each case at 1 ployers, of the President. Governor per cent starting in 1937 and rising each Landons record makes it impera- three years until 1949, when each tive to the last degree, not only contribution is to be 3 per cent. for the sake of social and economic Under the operation of the system, progress and safety, but for the each qualified worker who retires preservation of labors rights and at the age of 65, but not prior to its freedom. January 1, 1942, would receive a jo-poi- nt Owners and Exclusive Distributors of ALTA CLUB GINGER ALE LIME RICKEY SPARKLING CARBONATED WATER IS SeTeS for homeless and neglected ,M lt y,u your con-- 1 caring suffering from one venient lapses of memory, which children. Authorizes an appropriation of s one of your characteristic traits, for the fiscal years 1936 $841,000 you know all these things have long since been proved, most of which you never denied. Best Wishes to the Miners But I am infringing on valuable and Smeltermen for a Sucspace, but if you want more, just indicate it. I have an almost inexcessful Convention haustible supply of it, and may I in 1936 venture to hope for a reply? I mean when you find some one competent to reply for you. And will you particularize therein your just reasons for complaint against this honest and fearless expose? JAMES KENNEDY, COOKING Coole-r- children, Tckrf LOOOW I 11. ii., ELECTRIC S crippled Non-Parti-b- or Union Made for 84 Years NELSON-ANSO- 50-5- ZJJV'JZZJJ13!,, I Eeer 00 of working conditions you subscribed to, and on that are you willing to stand or fall? I note with concern in your invi. needy dependent children. tation for this letter you tried to I Authorizes an appropriation of give the Utah Labor News an in- -- $3,800,000 a year, beginning with suiting thrust by saying some peo- the current fiscal year, to assist pie presumed to be a labor paper,! th gtates in the health and for your enlightenment will of mothers andpromoting children "especially say it is a labor union paper, and in rural areas and in areas suf came into being before you were fering from severe economic disfirst initiated as a NRA recruit, or tress. when you were 'firmly entrenched Crippled Children behind bulwarks of an open shop Authorizes an appropriation of mine, cultivating the vicious prac- $2,850,000 a beginning with year, above tice of working overtime described. Dyou a,k fe? Voef'? 'S Almost any, and all members of cal, and corrective meiC.f.L8Ur?r services your local No, 99 is my answer. the Childrens I Milwaukee and 1937, 1, 938,000 a year there- P,n.ion until hi, death and strengthranging from 10 to $85, depend' after to supplement of vocational rehabilitation en state ing upon the total amount wages earned by the beneficiary af- of the physically disabled and ter December 31, 1936, and before annually for assistance to he reaches reti ruble age. the states and their political subsys- divisions in maintaining adequate Provides for a federal-stat- e tem of unemployment compensa- public health services, as well as tion by federal grants In aid, based $3,000,000 for the fiscal year 1936, on the imposition of a uniform and as much as may be needed an. nually thereafter to assist state pay.roll excise tax on employers. Authorizes ati appropriation o plans for aiding the needy blind, for the latter to 124,750,000 for the current fiscal the federal grants 0 on a made be be matching basis as and such amounts may year needed in future years to enable to states meeting set standards. (To be continued ) each state to furnish financial assistance "as far as practicable under the conditions in such state to monthly POLITICAL CAMPAIGN LITERATURE Legisla-ture- s to give it to you. They are usually disappointing in such matters. If you want it, become the owner of it by purchase. CONSULT rue him. life rain GH3 co. CESS 700 McCORNICK BUILDING SALT. LAKE CITY Carl R. Marcusen, President Nephi L. Morris, Secy-TreaIleber Nielsen, Ray H. Peterson, Office Mgr. John L. Firmage, Dr. Geo. W, Middleton,' Medical Chief -- ftem 0HHE3 GSufr o irrxTTTirAi! 231-3- 5 s. Distributed 6 PINNEY BEVERAGE CO. Century Printing Company 533 S. 4th W SAIT LAKE WASATCH 5M4 Edison St., Salt Lake City, Utah Wasatch 1801 |