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Show 1936. UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, AUGUST 21, Utaf) Mor Established 1929 J2eto3 A MEMBER OF THE ThU paper receives the American Federation of Labor News Service. LABOR Entered as second-clas- s matter March 28, 1930, at the post office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Advertising rates by request. $1.50 per annum Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. ...Publisher M. 1 THOMPSON. L. M. THOMPSON. . . to the proposition that labor should enjoy its just share of the wealth it produces. We believe in a decent standard of living for labor, and pledge ourselves to rigid enforcement of the labor laws already in our statutes. We believe in security against unemployment, accident, and, to some extent, industrial disease. We favor sane measures looking to the accomplishment of these ends. We reaffirm the national platform pledging to labor the right to collective bargaining and organizing, free from interference of employers, and to the minimum wage and maximum hours provisions therein contained. TAXATION We propose to continue our labors of the past in effecting an equitable distribution of the tax burden, and pledge our legislature to make effective the will of the people relative to homestead exemptions as it may be expressed in the forthcoming election, and pledge ourselves to a continued economical administration of the affairs of the state, and to thereby lessen the tax burden on the people of this state. EDUCATION We favor the continuous improvement of schools to meet the needs of an advancing and changing social order, in keeping with the high average wealth of the state. For this purpose and in the spirit of its necessity, we favor adequate state aid for a state teachers retirement plan, and an immediate increase for state aid for the equalization of educational opportunity; and likewise, continued advancement of educational standards throughout the schools of our fair state. WOMEN AND CHILDREN. We deplore the practice of a few employers who take advantage of women and children and other employes by paying unreasonably low wages, and we point with pride to the minimum wage law enacted by our Democratic state legislature of 1933. This law, however, has become ineffective because of a recent ruling of the supreme court of the United States which held, in effect, that a state law which prescribes a minimum wage for adult women is repugnant to the constitution of the United States, and which leaves in doubt the right of a children. state to enact a minimum wage law We pledge our nominees, both state and congressional, to do all within their power to bring about an amendment to the constitution of the United States, permitting states to enact minimum wage laws for the benefit of women and children. MINING We recognize the importance of mining in this state. We believe that through sympathetic cooperation with mine owners and operators a fair distribution of the wealth of the mines can be secured. This entaiU fair wages and proper working conditions for mine labor and fair taxes to the state. INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS We are aware that business and industry desire as much freedom as possible from governmental interference and taxation. We are sympathetic with this attitude to the extent that business, industry, g and all other groups are willing to cooperate in the establishment of a proper standard of living for their employes, and the solution of the problem of unemployment in the state. We do not subscribe to the idea that business and industry desire to escape their duty in this respect, but we do solicit a broad, social point of view, and cooperation in these matters, in order that the state may, n turn, render all the help it can in solving the trying problems that nend to slow up and depress the production of wealth. We submit that reduction of taxes by the Democratic administration is evidence that there is no desire to unduly burden the tax payers of the state, including business and industry, and, therefore, pledge ourselves to a progressive program that will aid industry and busi- - ... Office Manager UTAH DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM (Continued from page 1) WARNING OF DECEPTION We take this occasion to warn the people, of this state that there is now in progress a most elaborately financed scheme to deliberately fool and deceive them. Its object is to defeat Iresident Roosevelt and return the control of the government to the same predatory powers that, under the same management, brought the country to the brink of bankruptcy, starvation and destruction in 1933. It seeks by false suggestions, halftruths and palpable falsehoods, to frighten uninformed voters by unfounded and unsupported claims that our form of government, the constitution, and our financial stabil ity are in danger. Its main promoters who, by reason of their wealth, control magazines, newspapers and publicists, have circulated and continuously are circulating grossly misleading propaganda. Back of this smudge and deception are the three classes of selfish professional haters of President Roosevelt: (1) Certain big income barons who refused to assist the starvhosts of the Republican panic by contributions, and now hate the ing president because they are required to pay income taxes for this purpose. (2) Certain bankers and money lenders who want to impose upon the people higher rates of interest, and hate the president because he has helped relieve borrowers from excessive interest rates. Republican politicians who love the (3) Certain flesh pots and hate the president because he stands in their way. UTAH STATE ADMINISTRATION We indorse the record of Governor Blood and the state administration. We invite comparison of this administration with that of any other state in the Union. We have reduced the property tax level to 6 mills, the lowest it has been in 16 years. For the first time in Utahs history there will be no general fund levy. The general fund surplus and revenues from other tax sources will make it possible to carry on the functions of state government for the fiscal year 1936-3- 7 w ithout one cent of new property tax money. Salt Lake Tribune, August 2, 1936. Notwithstanding this enormous saving to taxpayers, we have kept npqq our schools open full time, while other states have cut their terms STATE PRISON and reduced teachers pay to as low as $25 a month. We pledge ourselves to a program contemplating the removal of We have continued building road3 throughout the state, including ;he penitentiary to such place or places and in such units as will make secondary highway roads throughout the state, until we now have over possible an intelligent, scientific, humane segregation of prisoners for 5100 miles of state highways. their possible rehabilitation and restoration to honorable citizenship. ' We have not allowed our public institutions and public school HEALTH , . , We favor intensified effort to prevent and control disease. To this buildings and plants to fall into decay, but, on the contrary, have enend we solicit the cooperation of all the people of the state in carrying larged and improved the facilities of these cherished institutions. We have distributed and furnished relief from drouth and have out the requests and orders of the state board of health. In this concommenced a system of water conservation to protect against the rav- nection, we pledge ourselves to a study of the tuberculosis situation in ages of drouth in the future. Utah and to the enactment of such measures as may be possible to With the help of the national administration, we have furnished prevent its spread. employment and relief for all the needy people of the state. PRIMARIES We have abolished deficits for the maintenance of government. We stand committed to the policy of providing a more direct selecWe have established a liquor control plan, not without faults, but tion of party candidates. still superior to that of most states, to which many states are turning MILK for a model. We recognize that the producer of fresh milk for market as such We have been friendly to and have promoted the interests of las failed to receive his just proportion of the resale price of his agriculture, mining, manufacture, business and labor. product and, therefore, pledge ourselves to the enactment of adequate We have established in Utah the federal social security act in all milk control legislation which will insure to the producer a fair proporits branches and the people of this state are now enjoying its benefits tion of the resale price of his product, and also protect the consumer to the fullest extent in six of the seven titles of the federal social se- :rom unfair or unjust prices. LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS curity act; namely: Grants to states for old age assistance, federal old age benefits, "grants to states for aid to dependent children, We stand for the division of the populous counties of the state grants to states for maternal and child welfare, public health work into legislative districts. and "grants to states for aid to the blind. Out governor has called a OUR SCENIC RESOURCES special session of the legislature to provide for employer and employe Our scenic wonderland as a recreational and alike the benefits of title III of said act, grants to states for unenv aesthetic asset, is now fully demonstrated. We propose to develop ployment compensation administration. We urge the special session this asset by fostering wide, dustless roads, trails, sanof the legislature to enact laws necessary to conform our laws to the itary camps, uniform highway markings, displays and and advertising, federal act, and pledge our future legislatures to continue to insure the coordination of groups now engaged in bringing these wonders in social of benefits to the people of the state of Utah the reach of our. people and the world. security act. CONCLUSION have indebtedness of the state, and We have decreased the bonded - In conclusion we pledge the Democratic party to continue to foster won the praise of the national administration for our prompt, honest p aid in the administration of federal those principles of government and institutions of state which contriband efficient efforts at funds advanced for immediate relief and for the reestablishment of a ute to the general welfare and to select for appointive office as well as elective office those persons who shall devote their energies to the sound economy in the state of Utah. Our budget is balanced; we are on a cash basis; we pay as we go. well being of the people. PROGRAM FOR THE FUTURE Our past performance is the best guarantee for a continued progressive policy. We shall try to avoid promises and pledges beyond our ability to fulfill. MISTAKE MAKE OLD AGE, SOCIAL SECURITY On the foundations of the federal social security act, we shall undertake to erect a structure of economic security for all our people, and to this end will move as fast as our resources will permit. LET LARGEST LIQUOR AND BEER We favor such amendments to the liquor contrtl act as will tend to strengthen the administration of the provisions of the law and contribute to the cause of temperance among the people, particularly through liberalizing the sale of light beer. AGRICULTURE Your Under the Democratic administration the farmers of the nation have tasted prosperity. We support the belief that adequate farm income and purchasing power form the essential basis for industrial and national prosperity, employment and security. We pledge ourselves to develop and adopt such policies and enact such laws as will carry into effect the principles of the soil conserva- - fr office-seeki- G I. O. ORGANIZING WILL GO ON UNABATED, DESPITE SUSPENSION Lewis Hits A. F. L. Council Decision As "Cress Stupidity, C I. O. Will Not Disband But WU1 Continue Steel and Other Drives. ng wealth-producin- revenue-produce- SusWASHINGTON. (UNS) Compension of the unions of the mittee for Industrial Organization will not have any effect on its organizing activities, Chairman John L. Lewis asserted, commenting on the decision of the American Federation of Labor executive council to oust more than a third of the Federations membership. Lewis termed the councils suspension order, effective September 5, an act of incredible and crass ng stupidity. We will not diseband self-hel- NO UTAH'S OLDEST and Union Printing Firm POLITICAL CAMPAIGN LITERATURE Back -- to -- School Wear the C. I. The catering and dispensing industry of Salt Lake City is eagerly looking forward to Sunday, August SO, the date of the joint picnic of the Culinary Alliance and Barabated. International League at tenders The shame of the act of dis- George Washington park, Parleys memberment will lie on the heads canyon, Sunday, August 80. ancan and of the council, they Those who have tasted the hosswer to their own membership. organizations pitality of these Trial Without Defendants know that there will be something Although none of the C. 1.0. doing every minute at these afLots of beer and house-brok- e unions appeared before it. refusing fairs. hot dogs free, say a the anto recognize that it had any right to place them on trial and suspend nouncement. Ye old time fat race. Perhaps them, the council went through the forms of a trial, with Iresident Tom Gilligan will race all comers John P. Frey of the Metal Trades of equal weight. Old timers race, baseball game, and many other atDepartment as prosecutor. Having listened to Freys tractions. In all these events bar charges of dualism and insur- dogs, hashers and grease burners rection, the council declared the will be much in evidence. C. I. 0. unions guilty and ordered I know of no safe depositary of them to disband their Committee, under penalty of automatic sus- the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we pension September 5. The International Typographical think them not enlightened enough Union and the United Hatters, Cap to exercise their control with and Millinery Workers were ac- wholesole discretion, the remedy is corded special treatment, on the not to take it from them, but to ingrounds of lack of formal affilia- form their discretion by education. tion with the C. I. 0. President Thomas Jefferson. Green was instructed to write the 1. T. U., asking that its president, Charles P. Howard, disassociate BUSINESS MEN himself from the C. I. 0.; and to the Hatters asking disaffiliation of WHY DO YOU TniNK the Cap & Millinery department. CANDIDATES WANT TniS ON Dubinsky Scores Suspension THEIR LITERATURE? President David Dubinsky of the International Ladies Garment Workers union was.the only council member voting against the susIT WILL ATTRACT JUST pension order. A proposal of his MANY CUSTOMERS AS IT AS that charges against the C. I. 0. be deferred to the next convention DOES VOTES. at Tampa, with whose majority deAll:ed Printing Trades Council cision he offered to abide, was reof Salt Lake jected by the council. Dubinsky described the councils Use STANDARD COAL Mined at Standardville by Union Miners Delivered in Salt Lake City by Union Drivers $8.45 STANDARD FUEL CO. Arthur MeFarlane, Pres. & Genl Mgr. Office: 69 South Main St. Telephone Wrasatch 4600 Three Months For Only 25 cents! Hurry! Because of popular demand we will send the Utah Labor News anywhere to NEW subscribers as a trial sub-thrmonths for 25 cents. 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BHCll Extra value Galt Lake Knitting Gtorc North Factory at ds 0.- , Furnish Name Address Century Printing Company 231-3- 5 two-thir- ng the-feder- For Boys we feature a jacket and cord outfit made to wear see them on display at our store NOW. suspension decision as a blow to unity in the ranks of American organized labor. He declared that the council had exceeded its authority under the A. F. of L. constitution. since the right to suspend unions or revoke charters resides explicitly in conventions vote only, and only by a of delegates. r, self-guidi- 42 South. Main De-clari- i We subscribe 04 Subscription estion and domestic allotment program to improve soil fertility and . tablish parity prices for agricultural products. adWe approve the appointment of qualified agricultural leaders to . minister agricultural laws and services. We will continue our policy of support for water conservation, weed eradication, rural road construction, favorable credit, cooperative development and flood control. Edison St., Sait Lake City, Utah Wasatch 1801 3. Name Address 4. Name Address |