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Show Review o2 Cwirreait E r Jjf THE PEOPLES PAPER EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEPTE VOL VII; NO. II. Head of I.T.U. Declares for Reelection of Roosevelt Significance Is Given to Howards Declaration Because He SupWe Believe ported Hoover In 1932 Campaign7-Beca- ue Shall In and Hope for Progress We Support President Roosevelt For Reelection, Said the Typographical Union Leader. Declaring for the reelection of At the same time I have at all President Roosevelt, and holding times believed the members of our entitled to know my that the election of Landon would union are any question that upon position mean a return to policies that all affects their interests. I consider but wrecked and bankrupted the that every person is entitled to his nation previous to 1933', President owrn opinion upon matters of poliCharles P. Howard of the Inter- tics, religion and all other quesUnion tions. Differences of opinion upon national Typographical threw his full influence to the these matters should not diyide the President in an advance release of members of an organization the a leading article under his name purpose of which is to deal with to appear in the forthcoming issue bread and butter problems. The laws of this International of the Typographical Journal. Mr. Howards statement was released Union prohibit the injection of through Labors Non - Partisan partisan politics, as such, into its affairs. However, where one is eleLeague. Added significance is given Mr. vated to a position of leadership Howards declaration because he in the organization a majority of did not support President Roosevelt our members expect him to lead and not become a mob follower. in the last campaign. The InterIn our public life too many who Union, national Typographical the the responsibility of leading is have one of of composed printers, Ameriear to the ground and their North on unions the keep largest acts and their can continent. expressions are inwhat fluenced Know to Entitled Are they think is by As president of the Internation- popular rather than what they beal Typographical Union it has lieve to be right and best. This never been my policy to try to im- attitude upon the part of pose my political views upon the leaders is responsible for many (Continued on page 6) members, President Howard said. so-call- ed Political Outlook In Utah and U. S. , - - Compiled From Reports ofU'ifObservers,. . - . V Watchful Waiting Your observer has adopted a watchful, waiting policy for the next few days in order ,to see what the progressives the will do about supporting Democratic ticket from top to bottom during the present campaign. We will wait a few days and see if some of the legislative nominees have learned any common sense before we start a review of their records and activities. Your observer has their records, and some of them are nil as far as legislation is concerned. Your observer does not desire to throw blocks in their paths if they really desire to become constructive legislators and cut out their boyish pranks. Some of them have been too ambitious for their own good or for the good of those who paid the bill. Some of them have been travelling under the hallucination that the Democratic party owed them everything, while in reality the party had paid them far more than they ever earned as Democrats. Enough said at this time. so-call- Not Democracy Your observer attended a political convention last Friday and Saturday. He has attended many conventions in the past 40 years but this one was nearest to a one-mruled convention that he has ever observed. . The party might have saved time, money and effort if the county committee had just empowered the one man who ruled the convention to nominate the ticket in his private office. This would have at least saved the hall rent and the valuable time of. the delegates who left their work and places of business to uphold democracy, but instead were confronted with dictatorship. Talk about political machines and dictators! The prohave the old guard gressives skinned a mile. an . so-call- ed G. 0. P. Meet The Republicans of Salt Lake county are all set for their legislative and county nominating conventions Saturday at the Rainbow Gardens, the same place where the Democrats and progres-- ( Continued on Page 6) so-call- ed News and Com By M. I. T. Price: 5 Cents Per Copy 18, 1936. St i Senator Maw Names Sail Lake County Legislative Ticket Labor Conventio the Organized Labor Members Seeking Nomination On Maw Slate The annual conventic Labor Utah State Federation Are Double-Crosse- d By Powers In Control of Fridays Salt will meet at the Untie is.strict Crose Loses In One-Ma- n Lake Convention Legislative Miners Union No. 151 hall at Revolution Against County Attorney Wallace In County Eureka, Monday, September 21. Meet Platform Proposal Would Take Away Saturday I am hoping that the delegates to this years convention will work Constitutional Rights From Women Workers. in the interest of all organized la bor of Utah. Personal hatreds should be laid Labor Mawiles Are Decidedly Ignored aside. If the labor movement of this state is to be united for the benefit First Time In Many Years Salt Lake Democratic Legislative of all labor, the 1936 convention Ticket Is Completely Minus Active, Bona Fide Union Dues-- . should conduct its business in a Paying Member of Organized Labor, way that would in the near future will and good bring about harmony among all members of the trade Senator Herbert B. Maw and his lieutenants were in com-alet- e union movement in Utah. control of the Salt Lake county Democratic legislative conEven if it is necessary to change the personnel of the executive vention Friday at the Rainbow Gardens. council in the interest of harmony, It took but one ballot to name the four senatorial candiby all means, it Should be done. If the present, officials of the dates, and only one ballot to name the 19 candidates for the Federation had the good of the louse of representatives. This is something that has not haplabor movement uppermost in their pened in Salt Lake county Democratic conventions in years. minds, they would be willing to Dr. the of tin his Maw, as followers, was the magician god step aside and encourage the election of members of the executive of the whole show. His word was the law of the convention, council who are willing to forget right or wrong. A nod of his head, a blink of his eye, or any and forgive the past animosities other motion was the to Maws followers to do his signal and bitter feuds. The principles, aims and objects bidding. of the trade union movement are All the precedents of Democrat conventions in Utah are not dependent upon any one man, shattered to pieces from the time Maw mounted the rostrum to nor any one set of men. second nomination the of his faithful quartet of senatorial slate The principles are greater than , and as a group, urged their nomination as a means to bring (Continued on page 8) unity in the party, until the last mothers son was taken care of in the Maw way on the house slate. Those placed on the legislative ticket Friday by Senator Maw are: For the Senate Lawrence E. Nelson, farmer, Murray. Wendell Grover, investigator, Mrs." A. C. Lund housewife.- - -s Warwick C. Lamoreaux, student. For the House A. J. Ablett, employe Utah Cop- per company. W. Douglas Allen, mortician, Murray. Wilford M. Burton, attorney. Sheldon R. Brewster, L. D. S. bishop and club secretary. Francis P. Eynon, confectioner. Miss Thelma Garff, school teacher. P. W. Hale, grocer. Dr. L. F. Hummer, physician. William Ingleby, merchant. Mrs. Albert Jensen, housewife. P. S. Mathakis, school teacher. Wehrli D. Pack, grocer. J. Waldo Parry, clerk. Alton B. Poulson, school teacher. Charles M. Ramey, electrician. Charles W. Spence, miner. C. J. Stringham, district court clerk. Ed H. Watson, geologist. George Winder, dairyman. The county and city judiciary conventions Saturday nominated the following candidates: For County Commissioner term, J. R. Rawlins, four-yeincumbent. Walter II. Anderson, two-yeterm, deputy county surveyor. For County Attorney Harold E. Wallace, incumbent. For City Judge Albert H. Ellett, incumbent. M. J. Bronson, incumbent. B. P. Leverich. ar ar Mrs. Reva Beck Bosone. For City Constable David G. Lewis, incumbent. Ralph J. Oswald, incumbent. The Winners Vote Balloting on the successful senNelson, atorial candidates was: Mrs. 405 Grover, 2712-3- ; and 267 Lamoreaux, Lund, 5-- 6; 5-- 6, 263 1-- 3. Votes cast for the winning lower house candidates were: Parry, 343; Brewster, 330; Ingleby, 327; Jensen, 325; Ablett, 311; Pack, 301; Stringham, 300; Spence, 292; Garff, 289; Watson, 284; Eynon, 279; Hale, 272 ; Ramey, 272; Bur-io264; Winder, 264; Hummer, 262; Poulson, 255, and Allen, n, , 252. In seconding the nomination of he four winning candidates, Dr. Maw declared: |