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Show RLeview (Current Evento ofi EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL VII; NO. 37 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. MARCH euPT OPK AND LET THE LEAGUE HAVE A COPY When you write your congressman and senators on this supreme court business, send a copy to Labors League, Willard Hotel, Washington, I). C. Congress is tired of hearing from the boiled shirts and top hats. It wants to know what the real people of this country are Non-Partis- an thinking about judicial dictatorship. And the League wants to know what the real people are telling 'em. So let the League have a copy. Stop Judiciary Dictatorship President Roosevelts Proposal News and Comment President Roosevelt in his fireside chat over the nationwide radio hookup said: What is my proposal? It is simply this: Whenever a judge or justice of any federal court has reached the age of 70 and does not avail himself of the opportunity to retire on a pension, a new member shall be appointed by the president then in office, with the approval as required by the constitution, of the senate of the United States. That plan has two chief purposes. By bringing into the judicial system a steady and continuing stream of new and younger blood, I hope, first, to make the administration of all federal justices speedier and, therefore, less costly; secondly, to bring to the decision of social and economic problems younger men who have had personal experience and contact with modern facts and circumstances under which average men have to live and work. This plan will save our national constitution from hardening of the judicial arteries. The number of judges to be appointed would depend wholly on the decision of present judges now over 70, or those who would subsequently reach the age of 70. If for instance, any one of thesix justices of the supreme court now over the age of 70 should retire as provided under the plan, his on each. place would not be filled. Consequently, although there never can timate you puttone The general of the commun-it- v be moTe than 15, there may be only 14, or 12. And there may be only whole with as its influence nine. which drag down. help determine Dictatorship Judiciary Stop whether people will measure up to Presidents Plan Is Not Radical 50. 75 or 100 per cent of their posThere is nothing novel or radical about this idea. It seeks to sibilities. maintain the federal bench in full vigor. It has been discussed and apHuman conservation and proved by may persons of high authority ever since a similar proposal then, should keep step passed the house of representatives in 18G9. with industrial and econatural, Why was the age fixed at 70? Because the laws of many states, nomic efficiency. the practice of the civil service, the regulations of the army and navy, We will discuss this further in and the rules of many of our universities and of almost every great our future issues. private enterprise, commonly fix the retirement at 70 years or less. The statute would apply to all the courts in the federal system. Warning With Help . There is general approval sofar as the lower federal courts ape. conYour Uncle1 Sam is discussing-with cerned. The plan has met opposition only so far as the supreme court of France and Germany the posthe United States itself is concerned. If such a plan is good for the sibilities of helping Germany econlower courts it certainly ought to be equally good for the highest court omically. However, in entering the from which there is no appeal. Uncle discussion, from his departs Those opposing this plan have sought to arouse prejudice and usual line about free of keeping and court fear by crying that I am seeking to pack the supreme fill foreign and entanglements that a baneful precedent will be established.. out the warning that it is iings court? the words the mean What do they packing by (Continued on page 6) Dictatorship Judiciary Stop ce ef-icien- cy . Desires To End Honest Misunderstanding Let me answer this question with a bluntness that will end all LEGISLATIVE NOTES I937AjlVJ Price: 5 Cents Per Copy C. I. 0;RUnions Continue frPMStrch of Progress By M. I. T. Community Patriotism You wouldnt sell your son or daughter for any amount c ey. Moreover if money c t 3 sure save the life of a n 2 boy or girl you would star ing the sum, donating g s. This sort of thing has over and over again in c can communities. While recent floods r that we should conser forest resources whief floods, contributions cr erally to save human 1 If a whole human ) saving in Utah cc . elsewhere, then half a nu.. n being is worth saving. What we are driving at is this: Human values anc efficiency can be raised in Utah communities. No community can be greater than the individuals who compose it. Individuals can be 100 per cent, 75 or 50 per cent effective. While each individual is largely responhible for making the most of himself, there is much that others can do and will do about it. The home helps most. Next in will be the church, school, abor union, the lodge, the library, he club, etc., according to the es- 19, Detroit continues the storm cen- Industrial Marine and Shipbuilding ter of labor troubles this week. Workers of America. in the Chrysler plants Textile Workers defied court order and refused to An agreemnt was entered Into evacuate buildings they have occu between the C. I. O. and the Unitpied since Chrysler Corporation ed Textile Workers of America, refusal to recognize the United giving the textile workers organAutomobile Workers of America izing committee of the C. I. 0. full as the sole bargaining agency. authority and power to organize Working agreements have been the entire textile industry of signed between the Automobile America. Workers and the General Motors, The committee is given power to and all is well there. deal with employers of textile In Utah the proposed sliding workers and execute agreements on wage scale for metal miners was an industry, employer or any other still up in the air this week when basis in the discretion of the Texthe Utah Labor News went to tile Workers Organizing Commitpress. Iark City and Bingham tee. locals of the International Union Broaden Field of Mine, Mill and Smelter Work The Committee for Industrial ers, rejected the plan, while Tin-ti- c Organization took steps to broadDistrict Miners union No. 151 en its field of activity when it Sit-down- approved it. unanimously adopted the following Other locals will take action on resolution: the proposal during the coming The executive officers of the week. Committee for Industrial Organization are authorized to Issue cer- tificates of affiliation to national, international, state, regional, city central bodies and local groups whenever it is deemed such action is advisable. Oil Industry At the recent meeting of the C. I. O. there was created a division of the Committee for Industrial Organization composed of Charles P. Howard, Philip Murray and Harvev Fremming, and such field G. E. Co. Agrees to representatives as may be availC. I. able to cooperate with the Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery NEW YORK (UNS) Workers in an organization camGeneral comin oil the Electric the is the latest of the giant industry, paign mittee to be known as the Petro-eucorporations to Bargain With m mass-producti- 0. on come to terms with the Committee Organizing Committee. The C. I. O. voted to extend fi- for Industrial Organization. nancial and moral assistance to the (Continued on page 4) COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES The Ultimate Democracy The cooperative movement is of the people, and for the people. It serves every type of human need, It )oth economic and cultural. hrives in every country where reedom is not entirely destroyed. American people. Membership in consumers cooperatives has grown steadily during the depression, un- til now over three million of our citizens are members of various types of cooperatives. A number of powerful forces are responsible for this interest in the cooperative movement: 1. Even though a certain degree of recovery has taken place, mass unemployment continues to be a major problem. In spite of increased industrial production figures of unemployment for November, 1936, according to estimates of the Department of Commerce removes the causes of war and of internal strife. To a world honest misunderstanding of my purpose. by unemployment and Adjourns If by that phrase packing the court it is charged that I wish The Legislature tom it offers a peaceful twentv-seconby war, d session of to place on the bench spineless puppets who would disregard the law a better civiliza-iotoward lathway he make Utah legislature adjourned 11 and would decide specific cases as I wished them to be decided, I The cooperative movement this answer that no president fit for his office would appoint, and no p. m. Sunday aftpr a hectic over-senaof responsi-rilit- y of honorable men fit for their office would confirm, that kind time session marked by a bitter gives people a sense destinies." own It for their factional battle between the of appointees to the supreme court. educa-iois most a form of powerful and progressives and administraBut if by that phrase the charge is made that I would appoint people learn by doing; they the senate would confirm justices worthy to sit beside present members tion forces. The sessions ran three faith in themselves and in showed 9,000,000 still unemployed. develop will over the I apthat conditions constitutional modern days these limits, of the court who understand 2. Concentration of wealth reThe cooperative moveeach other. of the with clocks stopped and covered by point justices wTho will not undertake to override the judgment is ment of mains the an issue. Studact will practical who stars application and the stripes. congress on legislative policy that I will appoint justices Golden ies he is ultimate of the it the Institution Rule; The of such Brooklyn justices progressive forces as justices and not as legislators if the appointment Elmer show in 1929 when that the me were the democracy. Morgan. with to Joy successful I some extent that and year I in then 'the can be called packing say courts, we reached a peak in the national passing some of the measures they vast majority of the American people favor doing just that thing income and in the production of Cooperatives Advance sponsored, but when it came to NOW. Benson Y. JourThe in and services Landis, goods ran a 12,000,000 patronage they Dictatorship against snag. Judiciary Stop was the war over appoint nal of National Education Asso- families had an income of less than It It Is Not A Dangerous Precedent ments that held up the adjourn ciation of the United States, notes $1500. On the other hand, 36,000 Is it a dangerous precedent for the congress to change the num- ment and carried the session into that during the lean years since families had yearly incomes of ber of justices? The congress has always had, and will have, that power. 1929 the cooperative spirit has in- $75,000 and aggregate incomes of overtime The confirmaperiod. The number of justices has been changed several times before in the ap creased tion of Bloods Governor measurably among the (Continued on Page 5) administration of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both signers of to various state offices appointees was said the Declaration of Independence Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln to be quite a victory for the adDEMOCRATIC WOMENS ORGANIZATIONS and Ulysses S. Grant. ministration forces. I suggest only the addition of justices to the bench m accordance The progressives failed THROUGHOUT UTAH ARE EVER ACTIVE with a clearlv defined principle relating to a clearly defined age limit. to land a single patronage plum. it the cannot trust America congress in the if future, Fundamentally, They tried hard enough. The nearelects to refrain from abuse of our constitutional usages, democracy est The success of the Democratic Miss Carol Chapman. approach, perhaps, was the re(Continued on Page 2) Mrs. W. A. Rupea, the newly in appointment of Little Willie Knerr party in Utah can be largely atto the state industrial commission. tributed to the active participation stalled president of the dub, anHis support of the administration of women. The Democratic womens nounced the appointment of the SAGEBRUSH DEMOCRATS UNANIMOUSLY during the campaign was nil as groups throughout the state do following committees: ENDORSE ROOSEVELT COURT PLAN far as Democratic workers have pot take a recess their work is Program, Mrs. Esther A. Husnoted the situation. Willie has been Continuous the year around. The bands, chairman; Mrs. Frank W. outs with the Democrats for some Democratic women continue their Penrose, Mrs. Mabel S. Moore; pubThe Sagebrush Democratic club debate M. I. Thompson made a He has been quietly manipu- organization work after, as well licity, Mrs. Karl V. King, chairtime. the to Presidents endorse at its regular monthly meeting in motion New-houunanicarried motion The man; Mrs. M. I. Thompson, Mrs. aiding and abetting move- as before election. lating, room the of the convention plan. ments and cliques which have ,Thanks to the women their William Mobest; telephone, Mrs. hotel Monday night unani- mously. worked opposite to the party entrance into politics 'has brought George C. Becker, chairman; Mrs. Questions Asked mously endorsed President Roosa purifying influence into public Idella Firth, Mrs. Hattie Burg, workers. wTere A number of of questions evelts plan for reorganization which was sorely needed. life Miss Ethel Doyle; hostess, Mrs. memclub endorsethe asked The courts. by the federal speakers EsWho Who? Is Sarah J. OConnor, chairman; Mrs. ment followed addresses by oppon- bers during the discussions. ana-lvzWomen The e News Labor Fifth Ward Utah Flora will was Mr. Musser Hitchcock; finance, Mrs. subjected ents and proponents of the plan. pecially, Mrs. chairW. Frank in the results the attained Eleanor Penrose, Beckman, chairman; Mrs. considerable to W. Among quizzing. Burton Musser, a prominent twenty-secon- d woman Miss Evelyn Piper; session H. of the state Democratic Sada state of the of matters were the Henry, the of an and leader a queries organattorney lame duck court legislature. The analysis will be committee, was a guest speaker at decorations, Mrs. P. S. Marthakis, ization opposing the proposed packed courts, didnt the voters based upon the 16 planks of the the regular meeting of the Fifth chairman; Mrs. Knox Patterson, court changes, spoke in opposition appointments, and nrove they 1936 Democratic party platform. Ward Democratic Study club, held Mrs. Anga Grossman. Roosevelt while sup- uphold to 'the Presidents plan, It will show who is who in vot- in the Newhouse hotel March 11. Historical. Mrs. C. O. Bonner, The speaker deal? a new wanted delivered were addresses porting needed ing and supporting of platform She described the inaugural cere- chairman; Mrs. Martin M Costello, bv former District Judge E. W. declared that if changes are monies of President Roosevelt. measures. Mrs. A. M. Woodbury; social, Mrs. the amend do to is to Stringfellow and United States the thing Ve Miss L. contended Helen have Skidmore Louise that and make always it Young, chairman; Mrs. C. sang by Shields. B. Constitution Dan right District Attorney " two on (Continued selections, accompanied by , page 3) (Continued on page 3) (Continued on Page 7) Immediately at the close of the dis-learten- ed n. te so-call- ed n; ever-prese- nt so-call- so-call- ed se . ' |