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Show 1937. UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. JANUARY 15. on the candidates. The best minds witn that subject appear to agree election, a provision for a primary the convention becomes a burdenuseless apsome, cumbersome and which n y pendage and expense, serves to impair respect for th ballot. . i POLITICAL OUTLOOK PRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS ADDRESS TO CONGRESS ON STATE OF NATION (Co.tinueJl. m . a few have the dual system of a future similar crisis you udl convention an(j primary election in (Continued from Page 1) . joined in a series of enactments-- 1 safe banking and sound currency, the guarantee of bank deposits protection for the investor in securities, the removal of the threat of agricultural surpluses, insistence on collective bargaining, the child outlawing of dent answer of performance to those whose instinctive faith in humanity made them want to believe that in the long run democracy would prove superior to more extreme forms of government as a process of getting action when ; the action was wisdom, Ugl those sacrifices spiritual other forms of government exact That challenge we met. To meet it required unprecedented activ to ities under federal leadership to restore a large end abuses measure of material prosperity to give new faith to millions of our citizens who had been tradi- - .te"g,t0 LSSS? I Sint uifai7 Tradec.ic and the beginning of security for the aged and the worker. Nor was the recovery we sought merely a purposeless whirring of it is important, ot machinery, course, that every man and woman in the country be able to find work, that every factory run, that business as a whole earn Profits. But .government in democratic nation does not exist solely, or even primarily, for that purpose, It is not enough that the wheels turn. They must carry us in the direction of a greater satisfaction . life f the average man. The I which accord available, is ing Divided Opinions . the most unsatisfactory system of divided in are C. Authorities all. Many states have laws proas to the best means of viding for conventions, which con- opinions of one candidates, seiecng to information ventions are prohibited from selecting candidates, but may perform many other party functions. Authorities point out that those who are the most extreme objectors to a direct primary law as a burdensome expense, usually are foremost in contending for retention of the convention in some form, when it appears they cannot escape a direct primary election law wherein all the people may have a voice in the selection of mocracy sume that immediate industrial ously wider opportunity and con and commercial activity which tinuously greater security in a world where science was continu mitigates present pressures justiously making material riches more fies the national government at available to man. this time in placing the unemploy- In the many methods of attack ment problem in a filing cabinet of with which we met these prob-- ' finished business. lems, you and I, by mutual under government to many Speculation standing and by determination to- 0VUg cUizens as Sible in employment are Fluctuations democto make helped who need it most-r- acy tied to all other wasteful fluctua those peciaily succeed by refusing to permit their conditions of tions in our mechanism of pro tQ improve unnecessary disagreement to arise life, to retain all personal liberty duction and distribution. One of between two of our branches of which does not affect In adversely is speculation. wastes these co of That spirit government. and to their the pursue neighbors, securities or commodities, operation was able to solve diffiwhich comes with larger the volume of speculation, culties of extraordinary magni the happiness security and an opportunity for the wider become the upward anq tude and ramification with few recreation and culture. downward swings and the more important errors, and at a cost Us With Problems the result that in the long certain imthe measured when by cheap Even will be more losses than our with run there present recovery mediate necessities and the even we in are the the of from that far gains goal underlying wealth of tual results. There are the purpose. deeper community. Continue Cooperation And, as is now well known to problems still with us I look forward to a continuance of that cooperation in the next for which democracy must find all of us, the same net loss to so solutions if it is to consider itself ciety comes from reckless overf ur years. I look forward also to successful. unproduction and monopolistic a continuance of the basis of that of of and man millions For natural example, many derproduction mutual respect for cooperation each others proper sphere of func- Americans still live in habitations ufactured commodities. which not only fail to provide Overproduction, - underproduo tioning in a democracy which is the tion benefits modem and speculation are three of physical working well, and a common sense who distill the troubles evil but breed sisters and civilization disease realization of the need for play in impair the health' of future gen- of unsound inflation and disasthe points of the machine. It i3 to the inOn that basis it is within the erations. The menace exists not trous deflation. terest of nation to have gov of areas slum in the the the only very right of the congress to determine lame ernment in smaller but cities, help many private enterprise which of the many new activities shall be continued or abandoned, cities as well. It exists on tens to gain sound general price levels of thousands of farms, in varying and to protect those levels from increased or curtalied. On that same basis the presi- degrees, in every part of the coun- wide perilous fluctuations. We know now that if early in 1931 govdent alone has the responsibility try. ernment had taken the steps is Another the prevaexample I find for their administration. type of which were taken two and three that this task of executive man- lence of an agement has reached the point tenant farming. I do not suggest years later, the depression would where our administrative machin that every farm family has the never have reached the depths of ery needs comprehensive over- capacity to earn a satisfactory the beginning of 1933. Problems Not Solved hauling. I shall, therefore, shortly living on its own farm. But many Sober second thought, confirms address the congress more fully thousands of tenant farmers inin regard to modernizing and im- deed most of them with some fi- most of us in the belief that the proving the executive branch of nancial assistance and with some broad objectives of the national advice and training, can be made recovery act were sound. We the government. on land which can know now that its difficulties That cooperation of the past four to them. The arose from the fact that it tried belong eventually between and the years congress be wise to offer to do too much. For example, it nation would the president has aimed at the fulthem chance instead of per- was unwise to expect the same that fillment of a twofold policy first, economic recovery through many mitting them to go along as they agency to regulate the length of kinds of assistance to agriculture, do now, year after year, with working hours, minimum wages neither future security as tenants child labor and collective barindustry and banking, and, second, nor hope of ownership of their gaining on the one hand and the deliberate improvement in the personal security and opportunity of homes nor expectation of better- complicated questions of unfair trade practices and business coning the lot of their children. the great mass, of our people. trols on the other. Social Security Prevent Future Crisis The statute of NRA has been The recovery we sought was not Another national problem is the to be merely temporary. It was intelligent development of our outlawed. The problems have not. to be a recovery protected from social security system, the broad- They are still with us. That decent conditions and adethe causes of previous disasters. ening of the services it renders, With that aim in view to prevent and practical improvement in its quate pay for labor, and just reoperation. In many nations where turn for agriculture, can be sesuch laws are in effect, success cured through parallel and simulBest Wishes to Labor in meeting the expectations of taneous action by 48 states is a the community has come through proved impossibility. It is equally BRIMLEY frequent amendment of the ori- impossible to obtain curbs on monopoly, unfair trade practices ginal statute. CUT RATE MKT. and the of most speculation by state action And, course, and the most inclusive alone. There are those who, sin706 So. State Was. 4237 problem of all is that of unem- cerely and insincerely, still cling ployment and the lack of econo- to state action as a theoretical But experience with acmic balance of which unemploy- hope. ment is at once the result and tualities makes it clear that fedthe symptom. The immediate eral laws supplementing state laws question of adequate relief for are needed to help solve the probthe needy unemployed who are lems which result from modern inMARKET capable of performing useful work, vention applied in an industrialized I shall discuss with the congress nation which conducts its business during the coming months. The with scant regard to state lines. Labor Friends, We Wish You broader task of preventing unemInstrument of Progress Lots of Prosperity in 1937 e ployment is a matter of During the past year there has evolutionary policy. To that 'we been a growing belief that there 814 W. 2nd No. Was. 1444 must continue to give our best is little fault to be found with the thought and effort. We cannot as- - constitution of the United States as it stands today. The vital need is not an alteration of our fundaBEST WISHES TO LABOR mental law, but an increasingly reference enlightened view INTER-STAT- E to it. Difficulties have grown out of its interpretation; but, rightly DAILY SERVICE DETWEEN (Continued on page 6) T. Wyoming Mgr. J I -es-coo- perate, J far-reachi- ng politipreventing members with interfering cal party from of any candidates of selection the other political party. Most states have a register system and unless a voter is registered as a party member, he cannot vote m the on the primary election other than Other candidates. states have adopted what seems to be a more simplified, but, perhaps less effective, scheme which consists of placing names of all candidates of all parties in their rebalspective column on the single information to lot. According available, the latter scheme is less cumbersome and expensive but always unpopular with professional politicians. states have some 7. That switched from holding elections on Tuesdays to Fridays for economic reasons; that it is desirable, of course, to hold such primary election with as little economic disturbance as possible, and it is suggested that the first Friday after the second Monday in September would be appropriate non-partis- an , A for Utah. In support thereof, it may be said that due to our modern system of communications the trend of opinion is toward shorter . campaigns. Party Features That of the different schemes of determining who is the winner of a given office the best authorities agree that the runoff system is both useless and expensive. Many states have adopted the preferential system wherein the voter makes. a first, second, and sometimes a third choice, by which usually a majority is eventually given some one candidate. Other states laws endow the candidate receiving the highest number of votes for the office, regardless of ma. jority 9. That the primary election laws function best where such laws provide for the selection at such primary elections of all state, county, city or central committee men or women. Opinion of writers on this subject is almost a consensus in f avor of so selecting such committees, and it is pointed out that the committee is the base of the party and where the primary law operates, committees should not be elected in any other manner and because if so, they might of times are entirely out of rapport with the winning candidates. 10. That the filing fees should not be too moderate but commensurate with the cost of handling declarations of candidacy. 8. Welcome to Labor and Best Wishes PEPPY SERVICE LUNCH 658 South State W. II. BURT Wasatch 9928 FORREST AKIN Street Friends of Labor y South Main Street 906 Wishes their Utah Labor Friends a Prosperous Year in 1937 Best Wishes to Our Labor Friends for Prosperity in 1937 HUBER BROS. un-Ameri- Two Phones: 1355 Indiana Avenue Wasatch 2414 and Wasatch 9878 FREE DELIVERY We Wish Our Utah Labor Friends a Prosperous Year in 1937 self-supporti- ng Grand Central Markets 916 South Main Wasatch 948 406 E. 3rd South Hyland 948 939 E. 21st South Hyland 1663 . Best Wishes to Our Old Friends and New Friends of Labor For a Prosperous Year in 1937 Utah Pie & Pastry Co. 2727 South Main Street Hyland 2793 or Hyland 256 far-reachin- g WrE UTAH CONCRETE PRODUCTS CORPORATION T. C. Davis long-rang- WISH UTAH. 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