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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, FEBRUARY 21. 1936. business should welcome COMMENT ON Arguments Heard AMERICAN NEWS On Radio Stations INSTEAD OF BATTLING NEW DEAL Business Does Not Know It Luck, Says Filene Declares Nation Will Never Permit Reactionaries to Regain Rule Organisation of Labor Needed to Prevent Nation-Wid- e Pay Chiseling. . NEW YORK. If business men knew when they are well off, they would be diligently at work on a definite and understandable plan for mass prosperity, instead of g devoting their time to at the Roosevelt administration, Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant and economist, declared at the annual dinner of the Wholesale Dry Goods Institute. Under such a program, Filene said, we would have to remove wages from competition but retain competition in prices; strengthen the social security program and add health insurance, and insist on government backing so that there would be no chiseling. We must insist, Filene emphasized, that labor shall organize scale, so that no on a nation-wid- e union could employer-dominate- d double-cros- s us by an unreported violation of our plan to increase the buying power of the masses. Conceding that business would have to surrender its precious, traditional, sentimental rugged inFilene said that dividualism, would be a small price to pay to avoid what will follow if the New Deal is scuttled. Business men are 100 per cent wrong if they believe the people will ever turn back to them the management of the country, Filene declared, and added: sharp-shootin- at The day is gone and wont come back when business can tell the masses to let us alone and well fix everything so that they will all have work and be eating again in a few years. The people demand something more than oratory. They can no longer be fooled by political clap- 100-wa- tt IIul-ber- trap. The practical business attitude of opposition to economic planning," Filene said, is neither practical nor a business attitude. Referring to the Literary Di gest poll, Filene asserted that it ed per cent listed as opposed to the New Deal favor the reaction- Ssmen8elfiSh demand9 f bU8, the GO (Continued from Page 1) people in their government there should be means of interesting ments heard. The examiner had recommended them in the outstanding personaligranting of the application of the ties of it. To begin with, short Utah Broadcasting company for biographies of our several county and Utah state officials and their permission to set up a 100-wqualifications might be good Bchool also station in Salt Lake City and favored the licensing of the Greai essay assignments. Western Broadcasting association LHing to Live to establish a station a ; Just think, 1 have only 55 more Irovo. He had recommended do nial of the applications of the years to live, wailed a Utah Radio Educational Society o:' in a radio farce. t, On the other hand, Jacob I. Salt Lake City, of the Great West head of the International Asern Broadcasting AsocLation for a sociation of Clothing Designers, station at Logan, and of the Cache said Nowadays, men berecently, o:f Valley Broadcasting Service CO and CO are as tween tastily and Logan, and recommended dismis sportily dressed as the young men sal with prejudice of the applies of 25; in fact, very often more so. tions of Louis II. Callister and o the fact that the average Possibly Munn Q. Cannon, meaning by his life is now ten years expectancy recommendation that those latter was a generation than it longer applications may not make- new ago may be in part due to the newaPplcati .wit! m war er mental attitude of being interand interestingly alive reDemocratic National Committee. estedly of dates mere marks on I - the contrary, he contended, I the opposition to President Roose-- 1 .HLILS?!0 opposition to velt comes in large measure from those who are dissatisfied because s PPlcation, Bl.rTmFwSn the Resident has not gone farther and J. W, the followers of Fa- - Pcared r station KSL, K. HeitTaul for appeared ther Coughlin, Townsend, Upton tl0rl Sinclair, the communists and every one else disgruntled at the admin-- 1 , ie .Plf1 Broadcasting company counsel asked the com- I istration 8UStain to mission the findings of The fact that the masses are not in as desperate a plight as they the examiner. Questions propounded by mem were two years ago, Filene insistof the commission have no bers be can to attributed ed, solely lof what the commis-I- t indication government spending. is lucky for us business men 8on 8 findings may be. The three or the broadcasting divi-ththat we did not have our way in I members matter of government spend-- 1 81n WI1 draft their findings for I it for submission to the full com jng mission and that body, at an early session, will hand down its find ings. BOARD On I - mer I 1 is LABOR RELATIONS UPHELD BY D. C. COURT POLITICAL OUTLOOK To F'eel Proud... I Bonus Payments Even those who were not for paying the soldiers bonus at this time may agree that so much money coming into cities and counties, and the homes of these Utah cities and counties will do these things: First bring a great thrill of Pf ganizations. UTAH LABOR NEWS Fourth East Lake 24 Street, Salt happiness and well being to many homes which havent known a cash surplus for several years. Second Enable many an honest, veteran to pay for things he has used, thus enabling him to face the world head up, chin up, eyes front, as a man capable of paying his own way. Third lut new things" on backs and in homes. Things that play so important a part in maintaining pride and a sense of wellbeing so essential to contentment with ones lot in life. ind Fourth Furnish a vestment, as part of the bonds are laid away against some future, though perhaps unseen, intense want or need. hard-presse- City. Wins Court Decree The A. F. of L. News Service says a decision of outstanding im- portance for the determination of orderly judicial procedure in cases of unfair labor practices arising d under the Wagner-Conner- y labor disputes act has been handed down by the sixth circuit court of ap- gilt-edge- hs old-ag- Workers to ht U)2l) that recovery must precede peals in Cincinnati. reform, that soil must be conserved The court denied the application and a "sound farm policy Inaugof Bemis Bros. Bag Co., of St. urated, that taxes have been reLouis, Mo., for a temporary reduced in Kansas and they can be order enjoining the board straining reduced in the nation, and that from holding a hearing upon a what we need is good governcomplaint filed by Local 1838, ment. That is all. Absolutely all. United Textile Workers of Amer-ica- , Governor Eugene Talmadge, you charging violation of the act who try to absorb the strength of in the companys mills in Memphis, the dead Huey Long, what is your Tenn. answer? He says that the New The decision of the Cincinnati Deal is all wrong, that the suHell Yawns court is in line with the appeals preme court has saved America, Whether or not it is true, as text of the act which makes no prothat he believes in states rights, modern theologists claim, that an vision for judicial consideration of that Secretary Ickes is a endless hell would be useless, those the actions of the national labor that Roosevelt is a Communist, of us who have learned the even- relations board it issues a that we should not be regimented, tual sure consequence of wrong cease and desist until order. In such a of the federal doing by experience or observation that case, if the company refuses to buildings should be torn down, that feel sure that hell yawns for the obey the order the case may be be and should balanced the budget whose stock and taken before the circuit court of a constitutional limit should be set other manipulations brought about appeals, when the actions of the on the power of congress to tax, the conditions of which board are subject to complete judipoverty that the terms of the Democratic Mrs. Dorothy Sherwood claims cial review. Despite this provisplatform of 1!)32 sh.iuld be lived forced her to do away with her ion of the law, federal district up to. That is all. Absolutely all. two.year-ol-d son. And now the judges have intervened and in Imagine our working man or state which permitted the manipu- many instances have enjoined the farmer (or his wife) listening to lators to operate will burn Doro- labor board from bearings this. The farmer has his mind set thy on March 16 and wash its charging violation holding of the act. The on low prices and high interest, hands. (Continued on page 4) small income, a miserable life. The of low wages, working man thinks unemployment, the right to organize. The only one of the five who Compliments of lad a sentence to say about reality was Senator Borah, who did mene tion an pension of $60 a month. That was squeezed out of lim by the Townsendites, who are STORE And so far as lot on his trail. realization of the plight of plain seven-eight- t, The Utah Labor News is proud of the endorsement, support and patronage of the Labor Unions In Utah. Many of these endorsements and support have been continuous from the day the first copy of the Utah Labor News was off the press several years ago. The best paid workers in Utah are subscribers and readers of the Utah Labor News. Many local unions subscribe for it collectively to their entire membership. Others are subscribing individually. The Utah Labor News is an independent publication. It is free to tell the truth without fear of suppression of its contents by overlords, censors and dictators within or without the Labor movement. The Utah Labor News does not carry an unfair list against any legitimate business. We believe in a square deal to all. The Utah Labor News is a legal publication according to Federal and State laws. It is not a proposition. Subscribe today. Only $1.50 per year and worth it. Write for special quantity subscription club rates and terms for or- gardless a paper calendar. would deprive her of her alleged (Continued from page 2) constitutional rights to bargain mustnt be touched. Thats all individually with the company. except for dialect and atmosphere The company claimed it would be Joseph Robinson, senator from of ary injunctions restraining the deprived of the right to make in Arkansas, and majority leader National Labor Relations board dividual contracts for labor if the the senate, speaking for the Presiin union shop dent of the United States, what from holding an election of the election resulted do you have to say? You say that conditions. Cotton Gates the of City employes the old brown deterto Mills of East Point, Ga., Frederick II. Wood, who was A1 Smith has thrown ash-ca- n and gone mine whether the local union of chief counsel in the Schechter derby in the is high-hahe with that sitting of the United Textile Workers poultry case which was the basis America should represent the em- for the action of the United States robber barons and defending them, most of the things Roosevelt supreme court in declaring the Na- - "at ployes in collective bargaining. deTwo suits were instituted against tional Recovery act unconstitution- - has done Al has proposed or and when the that charge the board a number of weeks ago. al, represented both the company Socialism and Communism was Mrs. Loa Echols, an employe of and Mrs. Echols in the proceedings I made against himself, Al proved it rebefore Justice Adkins. the plant, sought an injunction be to hooliganism used for It was announced that Justice lack ofverbal straining the- board from holding decent argument. That is inalso The the decision Adkins the election. denying company all. all. Absolutely asked for an injunction against the junctions would be appealed to the Senator Borah, you constitutional election. United States court of appeals for lawyer, you eloquent orator and Mrs. Echols claimed the election the District of Columbia. famous liberal, what is your answer? He said to his Brooklyn audience that he thinks the people ARE WORKERS RADIO Ask Auto should select the presidential can. READY FOR A CHARTER that our foreign policy people is concerned this great didates, Aid should be Organize is just about the most hope complete aloofness, PHILADELPHIA. (UNS) To that the President and congress ess of the lot. Senator Robinson, consider what action to take in the We should be curbed rather than the who was supposed to defend PresiCLEVELAND. (UNS) light of the executive councils re- feel confident that tens of thou- supreme court, that the Costigan-Wagn- dent Roosevelt, didnt even menbill is un- tion the Presidents fairly decent ception of their application for an sands of workers in this great ininternational charter, the National we have words and intentions and attempts. should that a to constitutional, will gladly respond Radio and Allied Trades held a dustry e drive for organizing them pensions, that industrial Imagine these five men, one of powerful special convention in Washington, under the banner of the American production cannot be controlled whom was defending the President ,D. C., February of the United States and one of Federation of Labor into one indus-- 1 without sacrificing personal On behalf of the A. F. of L. fed union in the industry, demo- - erty, that the trusts must be op whom may be that Presidents operal locals of radio workers, cratically managed by the automo- posed and the independen business ponent in the next campaign James B. Carey, president of the bile man protected. That is all. Ab- standing up in a row and speaking workers themselves. N. R. & A. T., appeared before the their pieces. Imagine a miner This was the message with which solutely all. Federations executive council in Utah and a farmer from Ne from auto workers the organized greeted Much About Miami, to press their case for im- John braska Nothing listening patiently to the L. Lewis, president of the mediate issuance of a charter d Governor Alf Landon, you end. Suppose that when they have chair and Mine Workers United along industrial lines. boy of the Republicans, finished, the orators look expect man of the Committee for Indus-- . 18 He says antly to these two great silent figtrial Organization, when he came "haV yur answer? ures for approval. And suppose LUMBER WORKERS HAIL it that these two, the producers of EFFORT TO UNITE LABOR sident Koosevelt has wealth, the wielders of power, that '"it was signed by locafunio'n dele- and the budget must should ask in a mighty voice: wasteful IndusWASHINGTON. (UNS) gations and international officers And so what? Where does it trial organization efforts meet with of the United Automobile Work- - Je balanced,, that the way out of come con to out? What do we get? The IS restore depression lumber much approval among ers, coming from Detroit, South give business men a chance five loud men would fall in a row workers, judging from a number tend, Toledo, St. Louis, Cincinnati, fidence, of resolutions passed by lumber Flint and other auto centers as well to Perate freely as they did m like five wooden and sawmill locals of the United as Cleveland, where Lewis spoke Brotherhood of Carpenters and under the auspices of the local Joiners. Auto Council. Local No. 2633, at Tacoma, For Start in Michigan Wash., in a recently adopted reso heart of the industry In The lution, expresses its belief that remains unorganized beMichigan unionism the industrial form of of the vicious open-sho- p cause does unite and strengthen the manufacturers on the of the lapolicy spirit and bonds of organized the one hand, message of greeting L. bor. It congratulates John and on the other hand continued, Committee of chairman the Lewis, up to the for Industrial Organization, for because of theto failure launch a drive to the stand he has taken for the in- present time workers into the dustrial plan in mass production organize thesewhich union of kind they need and industries. industrial an organization. want sentiments In the south similar national We feel that if th Local No. are being expressed. 2602 of the carpenters union at Committee for Industrial Organi-m Pea Ridge, Ala., whose members zation cooperates with our union cut and haul timber, also declares the field, such an organization its 100 per cent support for indus- campaign can be undertaken, starttrial unionism in a letter to Lewis. ing in Michigan. WASHINGTON, D. C. (AFLNS) Justice Jesse C,. Adkins, in the District of Columbia supreme court, refused to issue prelimin- W e Have Reason. (Continued from page 1) of the examiner and on the argu- lib-er- al money-change- rs S. H. KRESS & CO. 5-10-- 257 South Main Salt Lake City, Utah er anti-lynchi- ng old-ag- 0. lib-tri- al white-haire- nine-pin- s. I DISINFECTANT Best Wishes to Labor Hemenway & Moser Co. Liquid Soaps Janitorial Supplies L FLOWS ON In riding down Niagara river in a row boat a man depending on oars alone might debate for a time whether or not he would get off at Buffalo and add motorized equipment for safer and speedier travel on the treacherous river. ed Having delayed and postponed until he had passed Buffalo the matter of where he would be getting off would not long be within his power to decide. Within a short time the his opportunity. fatal falls would wind up Many business men are debating whether or not to get off at their Buffalo or B igger and etter usiness by boosting their sales with advertising. 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