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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JANUARY 14, 1938 Page 8 tive of syphilis is the church. The church for the most part, keeps the minds of its members set the kind of living through against By DR. CHARLES STELZLE which the disease is generally contacted. Executive Director, Good Neighbor League However, there may be people, innocently infected, who neglect treatment because of their mistaken notion that doctors may hath he his will All that a man life," is the age in give for some make them suffer long sneer of Satan. It is a miserable lie. There are cowards shame. way and slackers among us, true enough, but the average man is Dr. Parran cites the following in his book Shadow on the Land his life those for whom he in to for or a cause loves, give ready (Iteynal-HitchcocInc. N. Y. which he believes. It is amazing how much of the heroic there is in men, al- - $2.50): "A professor of history in a oush when the time comes when this is to be demonstrated, I leading' u"nive7sity, a'cVandfather ,h'r? rarely the sl.ghtest consciousness of being a hero. The I a man of. exemplary habits, went MTOEMIL: THE DEVILS LIE (Continued from Fage 1) 40 and 60 per cent was derived from industrial work, the remainder coming from criminal detectives service. In the city of Indianapolis, the records show, Pinkerton had more than 20 operatives working in 7 labor unions, both C. I. O. and A. F. L, at the same time. Not only do the Pinks squeeze into labor unions, but also manage to obtain offices in the organization, the Senthey ate committee found. Of 305 union members on the Pinkerton list, only a third held offices of varying importance. I One national vice president was on tlirPinkerton payroll, while eight local presidents and 20 local secretaries were work- wI,ole ,hm 15 done naturally and spontaneously. And this hap ing for the gumshoe agency. mrn a.nd women who are classified as common Spies do not hesitate to "burglarize" trade union records P'?5 amng as as it is among those who are supposed to be made often quite in order to get the names of members, the report charged. of finer stuff. Spies are members of unions in name only, the commit This doesnt mean that men count life a cheap thing, to be edm?.n ?nd ,a grandfather, we can tee stated. see what else we can He did take a blood test, Their oath to support and uphold the union is meaning- - recklessly flung away. Probably nowhere m all the world find e valued as highly as it is in the United States. We however. The results were posiless. They reveal union secrets, they steal union records, they !s human ave become. extremely sensitive to the fact that human life is to tive. All sex contact was denied. aid in black-listintheir own fellows. They incite to untimely The doctor and alike were Their allegiance is to the be conserved and enriched. We are free from blood purges totally in the darkfamily strikes, they precipitate violence. as to the source. now ?? common in some other countries. The wife was examined and found detective agencies and their clients, not to the union. have learned that precious as life may be, it is by also to be positive, in a latent Taking a comparable siuation the committee pointed out most highly prized thing m the world. We believe stage. She had been visiting her the mean.s that if detective agencies had sent a number of operatives into business come presidents way into least in part responsible. were positive. When the long throughout the country, their capacity for wrecking would be was unraveled, it was found story The is year that just ahead will be a trying time for most that the practically limitless. father of the child had The findings of the committee are astounding. Senators La of us. It will be a severe testing time for Industry and Labor. been infected five years before; Follette and Thomas, who directed the investigation of the Human problems of the largest dimensions will have to be met. thought he was cured when he There will be a call, for the application of the finest ideals of married, but was not. spying system, have done a great public service. The church can extend its savwhich men are capable. The committee has not completed its work and in mission by drawing attention ing The question of wages and hours will be an important to the near future we expect further reports. camworthy nation-wid- e factor but by ho means the most important. The supreme paign now conducted being against question will be whether men will be big enough and fine this great killer. enough to put into their relationships with one another Indus- A YIP FROM try and Labor, Labor and Labor the sacrificial spirit which THE DOGHOUSE The obstinacy of the refusal of A. F. L. leaders to permit will prompt them to give for the sake of others that which will formation of a unified labor movement, is a matter that calls give the lie to the sneer of Satan all that a man hath will he By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE That I may define my crime, let for explanation. give for his life. me identify us as those liberals The C. I. O.' has consistently stood for labor unity not be- , who for a quarter of a century only in a formal sense, but also in the wider sense of bringing NEWS AND COMMENT fore 1932 believed that if we could hitherto unorganized and divided workers into the labor change the environment of the underpriviledged, give them better movement. (Continued from Page 7) The Wall Street financiers have housing, better wages with which The A. F. L. executives rudely rejected all efforts to pre- been every possible ad- and smooth alike as it came. extracting they could buy better food and betserve a united federation, when they drove the C. I. O. unions vantage to themselves from every In making the above statement, ter clothes, educate their children out of it mor than a year ago. drop of suffering or fear of suf- Charles Kingsley was not advocat- in better schools, afford them dethat has grown out of the ing that men run around like grin- cent amusement and profitable difering I. Since then thg C. O. has made repeated efforts to restore Cheshire cats. He was prob- version, we would approximately present the unity thus shattered, but has met with nothing but rebuffs. conditions.recurrence of depression ning aware of the fact that there solve the problem of poverty. We ably The most recent peace moves of the C. I. O. have failed, And in the front-lin- e trenches at are those who are ever ready to used to think that maybe if we because the craft executives refuse to permit the entry into the Washington, the campaign of the take unfair advantage of the good could arrange a social order in reA. F. L. of 4,000,000 workers organized by the C. I. O. boys has had tentative natured whom they consider easy which the differences in social difin be would the reflected ward going. sucstill although incomplete .However, he undoubtedly real- ferences in social and economic caInstead of accepting an offer that would more than double cess against the New Deal, which ized that a man can be pleasant, pacity to serve society we would fact of an the strength of their federation, the A. F. L. leaders wanted to is vacillating in the a smile here and there with- have done something really worth giving alarming collapse in business ac- out take in only a million or so and leave the rest out in the cold tivity. being easy or gullible. People while. Our whole plan of social The record of the Wall who to take advantage can be salvation was to cherish and deeptry for later consideration. Street contingent thus far is this: duffed into place without en human quickly a more or less definite commitment In this proposal of theirs are revealed two of the reasons our making ourselves and decent We know theoretically that the of the Administration and especialfor their strange stand. folks in miserable order to put up principle of the C. I. O. is right. of its lukewarm adherents in a stern It indicates, first, that they are more concerned with divid- ly formidable front. The It must come to that in the end. i.e., would-b- e congress for tax reform s d advantage-takerand But we are a bit I. arent the C. O. than with uniting all of labor; and secondly, relaxation of the undistributed-profit- s ing worth all to come see like to dont it that day by grouching. thfe tax of retention that they fear more than they desire the influx of millions of upon That serenity of spirit which coercion and the labor racketeer. bloated industrial surplus profits new members into the Federation. We are willing to admit that our and smooth alike of the capital-gain- s tax upon takes rough Fear of too many new members entering the A. F. L., and and of scheme of things, unless it is modcultivation. There worthy a., the winnings of the times when it is work. The gradual enwont valuified, the imparticularly its and upsetting present leadership policies, was an big capitalists; definite overtures able in of the human spirit by A largement suspicion. portant factor in the resistance of the federation executives to from the Administration to coax man who disarming never lets others know improving human environment the from the industrial organization program of the C. I. O. support utility holding when they have hurt him has a wont work with ten million men Now that millions of previously unorganized have been companies and their Wall Street decided advantage. and women probably permanently bankers centering around the out of work in a system that reorganized by the C. I. O., the same fear still persists. That is House of Morgan, at the cost of THE quires a body of permanently idle why the little clique of craft leaders which controls the A. F. L. seriously compromising the New AND CHURCH workers if free experiment is perSYPHILIS would rather continue disunity, with 4,000,000 union workers Deals program of cheap power and in mitted our. industrial life. But outside the federation, than admit all together. They would freedom from Wall Street domina on The the other killer hand, neither will of Americans is great tion of utility services throughout like to try to assimilate them little by little. not the with the proletarian automobile or work, things tuberculosis, the nation; a quite firm promise by the middle-clas- s rib jabNearly all the maneuvers of the A. F. L. leaders in the the President to continue toward or infantile paralysis. The great elbow-ibourthe of out the to killer, Thomas bing daylights Parran, g peace conferences have been devoted, not to restoring unity, but by sacrifice of M. D. according New The U. geoisie. S. PubCourtesy surgeon general, to trying to preserve their stranglehold over the federation adequate WPA funds for the in- lic Health service, is syphilis. number of creasing unemployed; while at the same time weakening and dividing the C. I. O. There are now safe ways of commoves and exploratory for a Who knows most, him loss of this disease if taken in batting conference between peace capital time. But the time most grieves. Dante. greatest preventaAs to the alternative proposal of the A: F. L. executives and labor, the main purpose of that all differences should first be settled between all C. I. O. which would be some kind of com- cial interests have labored to mitment against strikes, and prob- transform a minor economic and A. F. L. unions, before any admission of C. I. O. unions slump Probate and Guardianship a weakening of the protective into a situation ably the earthat is merely a cynical rejection of unity. carrying Notices the of Labor provisions Wagner marks the a of of first stage major For they know how long it would take a craft leader like Act. depression. In order to bend WashFor further information conHutcheson to agree to grant industrial rights to the WoodIt has become quite apparent ington to the will of Wall Street, sult Clerk of District Court workers, if he ever did so voluntarily and one such craftist that the financial campaign to the tycoons have resorted to unor respective signers force such concessions as these out necessary of their workcould veto unity indefinitely. But the A. F. L. leaders will have to explain their rejection of Washington has in itself contri- ers, refused to make new commitbuted greatly to the severity of ments, and have chanted so loudly NOTICE TO CREDITORS of unity as best they can to their own rank and file. the decline in business activity. of depression that a panic psycholof Dolly L. Allen, DeEstate For the C. I. O. the way is clear ahead. It will now con- That a slump was in the offing ogy has begun to sweep the coun- ceased. centrate on consolidating its position and pushing forward to cannot be questioned: the head- try. Creditors will present claims These tactics have become so with vouchers to the undersigned in commodity prices inrise long new confident this that millions, in organize way it can best flicted on by the Big obvious that the mouthpieces of at 404 State Capitol Building serve the cause of effective labor unity, to which the A. F. L. Business the public the curtailment the Wall Street interests have Salt Lake City, Utah, on or before interests, executives will eventually have to agree or take the s of public expenditures by the Ad- taken to admitting them quite 15th day of March, A. D. 1938. from their own membership. financial C. Clarence Neslen, Administraministration, and the accumulation casually. The of inventories by manufacturers in ticker, which enters all .. broker- tor of the Estate of Dolly L. Alorder to increase their profit from age houses and banks, recently len, Deceased. Uncle Sams Mistake the higher prices which they them- commented frankly on the strike ble, madam ? Date of first publication, JanWife husband in is selves were fostering, all made a of the wealthy and their refusal uary 7, A. D. 1938. Young wife (at post office winMy Young dow) I wish to complain about Albany on business and the card recession inevitable. But, in their to make money by new investC. N. OTTOSEN, he sent me is postmarked Atlantic anxiety to make political capital ments until tax concessions were the service. Attorney Postmaster What is the trou City. out of these events, the big finan-- forthcoming. (Jan. 1 k, 1 I g I WALL STREET big-mon- ey self-respe- ct. white-livere- stock-mark- et n budget-balancin- lay-of- fs conse-qunce- Dow-Jon- es 7-2- 8) |