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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEPTEMBER 3 18, 1936. LANDON IGNORANT OF LABORS NEEDS Do Your Part lor the (Continued from page 2) League supporters of Landon and Knox. Absurdity of Knox But perhaps the most amazing part of Col. Knox's most recent absurdities is his ridiculous state ment that NBA 'put labor in chains. The operation of the NRA codes directly resulted in the reemployment of 3,000,000 men and women who had been standing in the bread lines of Mr. Hoovers regime. Everybody remembers that this was the very crux of NRA achievement, the high spot of the whole program. It placed these 3,000,000 distressed people into gainful occupation within a year after the act was signed by President Roosevelt on June 1C, 1933. Col. Knoxs .statement, of Re-Electi- on tn there- fore, that NRA put labor in chains is not merely untrueit is the most stupid of all his stupidities. It is stupid as piece of political propaganda, because it is so manifestly untrue that it will be immediately spotted by any intelligent worker as a downright lie. Even the state-gisat G.O.P. headquarters must have winced when they read this latest Knox blurb. Such campaigning defeats itself and I predict that this single statement will throw additional thousands of votes to President Roosevelt. Labor has no faith in a man whose misreprets sentations have now reached the limit. The Nations Knoxes The nations Knoxes are crying out in pain because labor at last gained basic rights long denied all-tim- e to it by the sheer might of unbridled economic power mobilized in enormous corporate units, like steel and oil and munitions. It wasnt any special favor that labor gained. It was merely and legal recognition and solely guarantee of fundamental Tights long, long overdue. Labor in America stands for democratic conIt opposes trol of government. It opkind of dictatorship. every of destinies the of control poses our people by great specially privileged corporate groups. And because of that, Labor is for Roosevelt. Labor United Politically Col. Knox has the facts wrong and he is even farther from actuunality in his interpretation. Hisavoid to labor advise to dertaking political commitments is sheer effrontery. Labor is united politically as has been before, with its never it full strength behind President Roosevelt, regarding the reelection of the president as absolutely essential to the maintenance of freedom and a decent recognition of human rights. a League, and get your friends to join. Both organized and unorganized workers, men and women, are eligible to membership. Join the Labors mass-producti- on Non-Partisa- n Sign the following application for membership and get your friends to sign, and forward same to the office of Labors League of Utah, 24 South Fourth East street, Salt Lake City, and receive a membership card and a badge. Non-Partis- an WAVE OF PROTEST AT A.F. of L. COUNCIL ORDER IS GROWING (Continued from page 2) American labor movement the millions of unorganized workers eminployed in the dustries which craft union leaderorship has lamentably failed to instructs ganize, the resolution the delegates to the convention of the International Typographical Union to support any and all measures recommended by Howard dealing with the C.I.O. Gallant Leader A. Liabors Non-Partis- an M. o Utah League I. THOMPSON, Secretary Salt Lake City, Utah 24 South Fourth East Street We the undersigned, join with Labors Honorable Franklin Non-Partisa- n D. League with its 1936 objective the purpose of advancing the candidacy of as President of the United States. Roosevelt for on Chicago (UNS) 16 has No.'. Union Typographical for movement voted to favor the industrial organization. CHICAGO BALTIMORE, Md. (UNS) At a well attended meeting, with 200 members present, Baltimore Typographical Union No. 12 unanimously endorsed the stand taken by Pres. Chas. P. Howard of the International Typographical Union in support of the C.I.O. CHARLOTTE, N. C. (UNS) By an overwhelming majority Local 338 of the International Typographical Union rejected a motion which would have instructed its delegate to vote against International President Chas. P. Howard on the issue of the C.I.O. WASHINGTON (UNS) 101 of the Local International Typo3000 mem- graphical Union, with bers, is on record supporting the stand taken by Pres. Chas. P. Howard on the Committee for Industrial Organization. BEAUMONT, Tex. (UNS) The (Continued on Page 5) (Political adv. by M. I. Thompson, 24 So. 4th East St., Salt Lake City) |