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Show Review Curreinit Evento ofi . r '.'I EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL. VII; NO. SALT LAKE CITY. IITAu 10. What Type of Legislators Will Utah Democrats Select? Sal " ip ER Price: 5 Cents Per Copy 11. 1936. '"-'lB- aigp-- , Democrats In Nominating Convention Must Choose Wisely and Carefully rUuuty By M. I. THOMPSON Again Salt Lake County Democrats. meet in convention to choose candidates for the state senate and the lower house of the legislature. Much depends upon the wisdom and deliberations of the delegates in the convention Friday, September 1, at the Rainbow Gardens. The state legislature can either make or break the Democratic party in Utah therefore, it behooves the delegates to the convention to think seriously before they make their choices of the men and women for places bn the ticket. The candidates chosen in the legislative convention of Salt Lake county are of great concern to all loyal Democrats of both d throughout the state. You know that almost houses come from this most populous center of the state. There are 60 members in the lower house; 19 of these are elected from Salt Lake. There are 23 senators; seven of them come from Salt Lake, and four of them will be nominated at the convention Friday, three senators are holdovers. What type of legislators should be chosen? I am answering this important question from past experI have been a legislative representaience and observations. tive of Labor for several years, and, perhaps know and understand legislative problems and the needs of the people of Utah more thoroughly than the average citizen, and the aver1 one-thir- age legislator. needed is legislators who keep their feet to the men and women who have ground liberal, common-sens- e Utah citizenry. given thought to the needs of We need legislators who are not constantly harping on class prejudice and class legislation. Legislators elected by a withmajority of the people should go into the legislative halls out any strings, and should be representatives of all the people. When a legislator takes a broad viewpoint and considers the problems of all the people and the best interests of the state, I consider him a true servant of the people who elected What him. is , A labor man elected to the legislature should consider not , '7, , ..... . (Continued on page 8) Political Outlook In Utah and U. S. Compiled From Reports of Observers Legislative Convention The Salt Lake County Democratic convention Friday, September 11, at the Rainbow Gardens, to nominate four senators and 19 rep resentatives to the legislature, is the main attraction in the politica" arena of Utah this week. Indications in advance of the meeting point that there will be the names of many persons presented to the convention delegates from which to choose' the allotted number to be placed on the ticket ' Two years ago a dozen names were presented for the upper house Legislative Convention Meeting Friday, September 11, Has a Real Task to Perform Interests of All the People Should By M. I. T. Be Considered County Convention Saturday Will Nominate Two County Commissioners and County Attorney- A Progressive is a The word progressive very City Judiciary Meet to Place in Nomination Four Salt Lake much abused and misplaced word ' City Judges. in political circles. It appears that News and Comment when one political faction does not agree with another political faction of the same political faith, the opponents often set themselves up in attitude and a dub themselves progressives. No one person, nor any faction has a monopoly on the word progressive. At times it is really amusing to find that even Hoover and Reed Smoot, Republicans, called them selves progressives. Liberty League leaders try to represent themselves as progressives. The reactionary supporters of Governor Alf Landon also call themselves progressives. It seems that in political circles when one candidate gets peeved at another candidate, they immediate-- y set themselves up as progressives. It has been noted that this las been done, although it did not mean progress at all. It has been done when it meant disruption in the progressive cause. We also noted independent poli-- ( Continued on Page 8) holier-than-th- ou Salt Lake County Democrats will meet in convention Friday morning, September 11, to nominate four candidates for state senators and 19 members of the lower house of the state legislature. The convention place is Rainbow Gardens. All forward-lookinliberal Democrats are looking to this convention to nominate a legislative ticket which will be a credit to the party and a winner in the November 3 election. The names of many splendid men and women will be presented for the consideration of the delegates. It is up to the delegates to nominate men and women who are liberal, outstanding Democrats, and understand the problems of the g, state. Much of the success of the future of the Democratic party will depend upon the sort of legislative ticket nominated at this convention. Delegates to the convention should deliberate thoughtfully and keep uppermost in their minds the success of Utah Democracy. All petty jealousies, rivalries and personal feuds should be laid aside for the party platform, principles and harmony. Every Salt Lake Democrat should leave the convention with only one purpose in view the election of the Democratic party nominees from top to bottom on November 3. County Convention The county convention Saturday will nominate two county commissioners, one for a four-yea- r term. term, and the other for a two-yeA candidate for county attorney also will be nominated. The city judiciary convention will nominate four candidates for Salt Lake City judges. ar American Workers Are Rallying As a Unit in Support of President Roosevelt for Reelection Land ons Labor Record Is Bad There Is No Record That He Ever Hired a Union Man In His Oil Operations Kansas Seethes with Stories of Landon Operations The G. O. P. Candidate Makes the Amazing Discovery That Everywhere I Go I Find Americans American Labor Marches On and Will See to It That the Great Gains of the New In his fireside chat over the get this program into operation Deal Are Preserved and Expanded. nationwide radio hookup on the eve the people more and more will be Decent Jobs and Wages in Industry for All Workers -- of Labor Day, President Roosevelt able to maintain themselves seWASHINGTON, D. C. Americas workers are rallying as a unit coupled the rural and urban relief curely on the land. That will mean 5000-mi- le in on He his decline a in the relief bursupport of President Roosevelt for reelection, as each day brings reported steady problems. personal survey of the drouth-stricke- n dens which the federal government fresh conviction of the utter unfitness and incapacity of Governor farmers' in the west and and states have had to assume in Landon for the highest office in the land. Governor Landons labor record has been shown up in detail by revealed plans of relief and em- time of drouth; but, more importLeague. It has been shown to be a record of ant, it will mean a greater contri- Labors ployment. absolute labor. The one outstanding fact in the Landon y state for bution national to President pros-peritdisregard The said, Every general labor record is the which that these in the drouth area is now doing have governor doesnt care a rap about labor. regions by and always will do business with been hit by drouth. It will conserve Two facts show this: 1 The use of troops to break the lead and zinc mine strike. every state outside it. The very and improve not only property 2 women The payment by Landon of the lowest wage in the Kansas and human The men but values. existence of the peovalues, oil fields. in do not factories the drouth want area the in clothing ple working In the use of troops to break the mine strike, the governor gave of New York, making clothes worn to be dependent on federal, state by farmers and their families; of or any other kind of charity. They the mine owners a chance to form a company union under protection the workers in the steel mills in want for themselves and their of the state militia. Even to this Alfs father, John Landon and the Pittsburgh, in the automobile fac-ori- families an opportunity to share day Landon has taken no steps to relation of that event to Alf Lanof Detroit, and in the har- fairly by their own efforts in the help the miners who are still on dons start in the oil business. A and 70 for the lower house. We factories of Illinois, depend progress of America. strike in Kansas. He is content to great vester will shall soon know how many many questions, too, have Sound to a let the record stand, because the been asked Want the farmers Policy ability pur upon Democratic on the seek the places The farmers of America want a record there made was in accorc which brokeabout the bond scandal chase the commodities they proin 1933, resulting in legislative ticket in 1936. The elimination must be done duce. In the same way, it is the a sound national agricultural poli- with the Landon ideas. the impeachment of an attorney Bad Record jurchasing power of the workers cy in which a permanent land use of four judiciously and with care. general and the will have an cities in the factories these in that important program an oil man. He is an others, includingsentencing Landon is be names No doubt there will Ronald Finney, enables them and their wives and place. They want assurance employer. He has made a lot of bond broker, and State Treasurer presented of persons who have lit- - children like another more more to eat 1932, beef, year against tie more idea about the legislature money in oil. There is no record Tom Boyd. There have been questhan has the man in the moon. jork, more wheat, more corn when they made good crops, but that he ever employed a union man tions also as to how it came about them for prices that in his oil operations. The wages that there was evidence These, perhaps, will be eliminated more fruit and more dairy prod- had to sell that just meant as surely as did on the Landon leases are far below before the case broke ruin to more and clothing ucts, just buy hesitation. without paid Finney Sound policy must the union rate and even below that some and the drouth. Then again, many names of per- made from cotton, wool to Landon. Mrs. This, $13,000 in good crop paid by other operators of non she says, was in repayment for sons, who are worthy of the honor, eather. In a physical and proper- maintain farm prices as bad well in as in a well as as crop years. union leases. also-ran years sense, spiritual will find themselves in the ty money loaned to Finney by her. when we have Landon has wobbled class. And this without any sense, we are members one of It must function Politically, There are stories going of another. drouth; it must also function when around over the whole landscape. the rounds in many good reason at all. but disreKansas, we have bumper crops. But as an employer he has been garding all of them, the governors No Single Panacea It is politics. And politics is a The maintenance of a fair consistent in. his idea about low and administrative record gamble. We hope the defeated I want to make it clear that between farm prices wages. In politics Landon has political equilibrium as take ones can it good naturedly out as marking him unfit stands no simple panacea can be applied and the of industrial prod- played with the progressives and for a good Democrat should. the to the drouth problem in the whole ucts is anprices anything approaching aim which we must keep with the most reactionay of re May the best man win! of the drouth area. Plans must de- ever before us, presidency. just as we must for a time Fox Landon pend on local conditions, for these give constant thought to the suffi- actionaries.to He was Allen when J. Kansas soil In Henry the nickname Fox secretary Senate Race annual with rainfall, vary ciency of the food supply of the Allen was governor. It was Allen Landon is being used more often In the race for Democratic nomi characteristics, altitude and topog- nation Our mod- who, as even in bad gave Kansas its than ever. He is the Fox, to a nation for the senate there are sev- raphy. Water and soil conserva- ern civiliation can years. should de- infamous governor, and Court which Industrial one We women. in men and methods tion eral splendid may differ parttheof Kansas and his convise a more successful means by made workers wards of the state, great duct thus far would like to support them all, but county from those in an adjoining which the excess in supplies of without power to shape their own seems to lend campaign warrant for fresh there are only four to be chosen. county. Work to be done in the catbe conserved for course. was ever so bit- use of the appellation. Nothing we tle and sheep country differs in bumper years can . Under these circumstances use in lean years. . terly denounced by the American must consider first of all the past type from work in the wheat counOnly the rashest and boldest kind to the Kansas Federation of Labor as Cooperate Willing could of and of belt. in or corn the work political manipulation performance experience try In the drouth area people are Industrial Court. have brought the nomination to The great plains drouth area those seeking the honor. such a man. One of the chiefs in Many Questions Among these we consider several committee has given me its prelim- not afraid to use new methods to Kansas today seethes with stor- hat manipulation was and is Wilas outstanding, capable and ex- inary recommendations for a long- meet changes in nature and to cortime program for that region. rect mistakes of the past. If over-grazi- ies of various operations of Lan- liam Randolph Hearst, about perienced. has injured range lands, don and his political friends. A whose amazing career three fat First to your observers mind Using that report as a basis, we comes Stanley N. Child. He served are cooperating successfully and in they are willing to reduce the graz- great many questions are being ooks have been written this year. in the lower house in the 21st ses--( entire accord with the governors ing. If certain wheat lands should asked about the receivership of the Hearst has made newspapers for Continued on page 3) Kansas Natural Gas Co., under and state planning boards. As we (Continued on Page 7) (Continued en page 4) Non-Partis- an T es ng X i |