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Show LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH 19, 1937 UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT 2 lafior JetoS fHtaf) A MEMBER OF THE Established 1929 This paper receives the American Federation of Labor News Service. constitutional amendment. The first includes those who fundamentally object to social and economic legislation along modern lines. This is the same group who during the campaign last fall tried to block the . mandate of the people. Now they are making a last stand. And the strategy of that last stand is to suggest the process of amendment in order to kill off by delay the legislation demanded by the mandate. Dictatorship Judiciary .Stop time-consumi- ng Will Not Fool American People To them I say I do not think you will be able long to fool the American people as to your purposes. adopted the report of the resold tions committee. It reported favorably a resolution for ratifying the child labor amendment to the Constitution, a resolution for a League constitution to bo written by the executive board, a declaration of purpose, and address to the American people. A ways and means committee was appointed and approved, consisting of Executive Vice President E. L. Oliver, John Owens, Carl Holderman, C. N. Kobertson, and Fred Clark. The committee got to work immediately on the organization and financial details of the expanded League program embodied in the declaration of purpose. The other group is composed of those who honestly believe the amendment process is the best and who would be willing to support at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. a reasonable amendment if they could agree on one. To them I say we cannot rely on an amendment as the immediate $1.50 per annum Subscription or only answer to our present difficulties. When the time comes for Advertising rates by request. action, you will find that many of those who pretend to support you will sabotage any constructive amendment which is proposed. Look Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, at these strange bedfellows of yours. When before have you found Permanent Organization 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. them really at your side in your fights for progress? with the committee were Meeting were And remember one thing more. Even if an amendment and board memchairmen state 24 Published weekly at South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, passed, and even if in the years to come it were to be ratified, its bers. The first business of the Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. meaning would depend upon the kind of justices who would be sitting on page 4) on the supreme court bench. An amendment like the rest of the conM. I THOMPSON Publisher stitution is what the justices say it is rather than what its framers M. THOMPSON Office U or you might hope it is. Manager EYE GLASSES This proposal of mine will not infringe in the slightest upon the civil or religious liberties so dear to every American. At Wholesale to All My record as governor and as president proves my devotion to Lenses Duplicated those liberties. You who know me can have no fear that I would at Same Low Price tolerate the destruction by any branch of government of any part of (Continued from Page 1) will have failed far beyond the importance to it of any kind of prece- our heritage of freedom. The present attempt by those opposed to progress to play upon Optical Laboratories dent concerning the judiciary. Price, Salt Lak City We think it so much in the public interest to maintain a vigorous the fears of danger to personal liberty brings again to mind that Utah crude to 246 So. Main and cruel same tried the frighten opposition by offerstrategy we the of retirement encourage elderly judges by judiciary that Phone Keith Blda. the in the workers of a America propaganda against 327 Wai. 7812 ing them a life pension at full salary. Why then should we leave the fulfillment of this public policy to chance or make it dependent upon social security law. The workers were not fooled by that propaganda then. The people of America will not be fooled by such propaganda the desire or prejudice of any individual justice? now. conto a is our of It the clear intention provide for public policy I am in favor of action through legislation: stant flow of new and younger blood into the judiciary. Normally AMERICAN LINEN because I believe that it can be passed at this session of First, and of circuit district number a judges every president appoints large SUPPLY COMPANY and a few members of the supreme court. Until my first term prac- the congress. Judicial Dictatorship Stop one least had the at States United appointed tically every president of Cleanliness First! Cleanliness member of the supreme court. President Taft appointed five members Liberal-Minde- d Judiciary Is Necessary liberal-mindeLast! Boost, Build and Supd Second, because it will provide a reinvigorated, and named a chief justice President Wilson three President Harding your State. Use Amerport bottom and four including a chief justice President Coolidge one President Hoover judiciary necessary to furnish quicker cheaper justice from ican continuous towels and to top. three including a chief justice. ' all kinds of linens they furThird, because it will provide a series of federal courts willing Dictatorship Judiciary Stop nish. Support industries that to enforce the constitution as written, and unwilling to assert legisd Court Is Desirable support you. and economic own lative into it their powers by writing political Such a succession of appointments should have provided a court 33 East 6th South well balanced as to age. But chance and the disinclination of individu- policies. of power between the the the balance Was. 2484-8- 5 half century During past als to leave the supreme bench have now given us a court in which three great branches of the federal government, has been tipped out IT PAYS TO KEEP five justices will be over 75 years of age before next June and one of balance in direct contradiction of the high purposes of courts the by CLEAN over 70. Thus a sound public policy has been defeated. is my purpose to restore that balthe of the constitution. framers It I now propose that we establish by law an assurance against ance. You who know me will accept my solemn assurance that in a court in the future. I propose that hereafter, world in which any such is under attack, I seek to make American democracy when a judge reaches the age of 70, a new and younger judge shall succeed. be added to the court automatically. In this way I propose to enforce democracy Judiciary Dictatorship Stop a sound public policy by law instead of leaving the composition of our chance or be to determined federal courts, including the highest, by DELEGATES URGE CONGRESS TO the personal decision of individuals. Dictatorship Stop Judiciary REORGANIZE SUPREME COURT It Is a Necessary Controversy If such a law as I propose is regarded as establishing a new preplan to reform the supreme court, Special to Utah Labor News cedent is it not a most desirable precedent ? The WASHINGTON supreme or are vou not? Like all lawyers, like all Americans, I regret the necessity of found many more The this controversy. But the welfare of the United States, and indeed of court must be reformed. It must friends delegates court reform than they of the constitution itself, is what we all must think about first. Our be brought in line with present-da- y had expected. They also found a difficulty with the court today rises not from the court as an institution The American number of senators and congress requirements. but from human beings within it. But we cannot yield our constitutional insist that this be done. men who are honestly undecided or destiny to the personal judgment of a few men who, being fearful people who are still to hear from of the future, would deny us the necessary means of dealing with the This demand was voiced by Labors more of the waiting back home. in convention people League present. These are the lawmakers who week. here last This plan of mine is no attack on the court; it seeks to restore Senators and congressmen, sit- should hear immediately from orthe court to its rightful and historic place in our system of constituganizations and individual men and tional government and to, have it resume its high task of building anew ting in their offic on Capitol hill women in their states. or coming from the floor of their on the constitution a system of living law. lobthe chambers into Major Berry Presides legislative Stop Dictatorship Judiciary the of demand peoheard this bies, The convention was called to President Explains the Process as it was carried to them by order by Major George L. Berry, ple UNION MADE I have thus explained to you the reasons that lie behind our ef- 700 men and women from every in of the the president League, to secure results by legislation within the constitution. I hope state in the union who had gath- ballroom forts of the Willard hotel. EvIn 12 and Bottles that thereby the difficult process of constitutional amendment may ered for the convention. seat was taken and all standery Pasteurized be rendered unnecessary. But let us examine that process. Did More Than Listen Besides ing room was occupied. There are many types of amendment proposed. Each one is In half gallon jugs the and members delegates senators and The League congressmen no There substantial group is radically different from the other. unpasteurized there were members of were congress, within the congress or outside it who are agreed on any single amend- did more than listen. They Real Keg Beer and national other on the themselves asked to express figures judges ment. in attendance. to end A an issue of judicial It would take months or years to get substantial agreement upon putting Superior Western Product The convention Their constituents unanimously the type and language of an amendment. It would take months and dictatorship. years thereafter to get a two-thirmajority in favor of that amend- coming from the League convention wanted to know, definitely how ment in both houses of the congress. three-fourtthe representatives of the people Then would come the long course of ratification by of the states. No amendment which any powerful economic interests stand on the supreme court issue. Evasion and quibbling didnt sator the leaders of any powerful political party have had reason to oppose has ever been ratified within anything like a reasonable time. isfy these hardheaded, determined And 13 states which contain only 5 per cent of the voting population Leaguers. They pinned the senacan block ratification even though the 35 states with 95 per cent of tors down. They made the conthe population are in favor of it. gressmen come across. They askand ed: Are you for the Presidents Stop Judiciary Dictatorship Entered as second-clas- s matter March 28, 1930, at the post of Ace COURT pay-envelo- pe Well-Balance- 17 Non-Partis- an 22-oun- ce ds hs Utahs oldest UNION Printing Plant Newspapers, Lawyers, Etc. very large percentage of newspaper publishers, chambers of commerce, bar associations, manufacturers' associations, who are trying to give the impression that they really do want a constitutional amendment would be the first to exclaim as soon as an amendment was proposed Oh! I was for an amendment all right, but this amendment that you have proposed is not the kind of an amendment that I was thinking about. I am, therefore, going to spend mv time, my efforts and my money to block that amendment, although I would be awfully glad to help get some other kind of an amendment ratified. 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