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Show Review Current Events ofi r 0 'rxi tit,.: . x ui'dii XT trig 7 PAPER THE KOmS EDUCATE ORGANIZE itkT&txis c) COOPERATE VOL VII; NO. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, MARCH 26. 38 UCT UIPISERfllE Stop Judicial - 9 Your Senators want to know what you think about the idents Supreme Court reform plan. Pres- does your Congressman. They have said so. They said they are waiting to hear from So the people. DONT DISAPPOINT YOUR SENATORS AND CONGRESSMAN. Write today and tell them in plain terms. Just address it Senator Blank or Congressman Doe, Washington, D. C. A postal will do the trick. DONT FORGET TO MAIL IT AFTER WRITING. Judicial Stop Dictatorship President Roosevelt has asked congress to pass a law affecting the membership of the supreme court of the United States. His recommendation has let loose the floodwaters of propaganda dammed up since the recent election. Newspapers and radio reiterate the charges that the President wants to pack the court; that he is undermining our liberties; that he is about to upset our system of government. We might vell assume from all we have heard and read that something dire and revolutionary is about to be put over on us. Let us look carefully at what he has proposed. It is just this; If a judge does not retire when he reaches 70 years of age, then the President shall nevertheless appoint his. successor. It is this very simple recommendation which has unloosed the turbulent waters swirling about us. Judicial Stop Dictatorship There is nothing new or spectacular in compulsory retirement for judges. Growing out of generations of human experience, most other nations and many of our states and municipalities have fixed an age limit for retiring not only judges but other officers and employes. Nearly every college and university has such a system for teachers. Corporations and industries have similar provisions for officers and employes. 'And in nearly all such retirement systems the maximum limit is 70 years. ' Judicial Stop Dictatorship There are, of course, exceptional people who retain their full powers after 70, but they are the exception and not the general rule. The danger of age is not the lack of learning or skill; the danger of age is rather a lack of contact with and appreciation of the problems of the present. Judicial Stop Dictatorship " of Long years giving opinions from the judged bench are all too apt to create a habit of mind which cannot adjust itself to the right of the oncoming generation to meet its own problems. In the past generation the judges have too often been unable to realize that to quote (Continued on Page 2) Governor Blood Signs Direct Primary Law le Easter Pageant One of the most interesting ant Special to the Utah Labor News unique Easter day observances in LANSING, Mich. (UNS) John L Lewis, president of the entire country will take place at sunset in Zion national park, the Committee for Industrial Organization, informed the repon March 28. Rehearsals for the accord mammoth pageant to be presentee resentatives of the Union News Service that an at the base of the Great White been reached late Wednesday by union representatives Throne, were commenced recently Walter P. Chrysler, chairman of the Chrysler Corporation with a cast of nearly 500 persons from all sections of Utah and board on the matter of proceeding with collective bargaining nearby states. The annual Easter between the United Automobile Workers, a C. I. day sendee at Zion national park is negotiations one of the unusual observances O. affiliate, and the corporation. held in the west. The festival commemorating the last glorious resurrection takes on a particular significance at Zion, where the budding leaves and flowers fill one with the spirit of resurrection at Easter time. For the third annual observance, an original dramatization, written by Grant H. Bedford of the Branch Agricultural college at Cedar City, will be presented. Music of a sacred nature has been specially arranged for the 250 voice chorus, by William H. Manning, and orchestras for the G5 piece symphony orchestra by Roy L. Halverson, both of the B. A. C. music department. Principals in the speaking cast of more than 70 persons, include J. C. Haws and Voyle Munson of Escalante and Miss Dixie Thompson of Circle ville. Mr. Bedford will play the Christus and will be supported by a cast of southern Utah residents, who with dancers, choruses, soldiers, mobs and orchestra will bring the total par ticipating to 500. The sunset service will commence at approximately 5:30 p. m., and will be so arranged that thenal syeik, thit; of the resurrected Christ, high upon the canyon wall above the audience, will come in total darkness, as the combined choruses sing, the Hallelujah Chorus from Handels Messiah. (Continued on Page 7) Political Outlook In Utah and U. S. Social Security Measures Receive Approval Veto Ax Used on Homestead Tax Exemption and Justice Department Measures Nearly 40 Measures Signed Before Deadline Was Reached Tuesday. Senate bill No. 1, the direct primary law, was approved by Governor Henry H. Blood Monday afternoon. The measure was introduced in the senate by Senators Herbert B. Maw of Salt Lake countv and Eldred M. Royle of Utah county. The bill passed the senate and was transmitted to the lower house where it was referred to the committee on elections, of which Representative Sol J. Selvin of Tooele was chairman. In the house committee the bill was practically rewritten to make it more workable. The filing fees were reduced, and the most objectionable feature, section tax of 1 per cent on the gross value 17 of the original bill, was elimi- of the ore. Proceeds of the occupanated. This section provided fora tional tax go to th state general challenge of candidates who filed. fund. Another important measure, and The house committee also which created much debate during amended the sections providing for the The legislative session, was signed bill as party organizations. Governor. This is the truckthe and drafted by originally passed by the senate provided for party or- ers license measure. It repeals the tax, and establishes ganization from the top down. The ld ton-mihouse changed this plan to provide in its place a graduated scale of party organization from the bot- increased registration fees on all tom up, which is the natural and heavy commercial vehicles, trailers and semitrailers. logical way. . No Party Declaration Utility Bills The law does not require voters The Governor signed senate bills to declare their party affiliation 76 and 77. These bills provide that when they vote at the primary the tax commission in levying election. All party candidates property taxes on utilities shall names are printed on one ballot in use the same base used by public their respective party columns. ervice commission in rate making. The new law will become effec- They also provide that if a utility tive May 11, 1937. It will be giv- declares a certain valuation for en its first test in the 1938 general taxation that it shall become the elections when congressmen, Unit- ate making base. ed States senator, and county ofS. B. 78, appropriates $100,000 ficers are nominated. for vocational training. The direct primary bill was conS. B. 221, provides that the tax sidered a Democratic party plat- on gasoline used in airplanes shall form proposal, and was one of the be kept in separate fund and used first party platform measures to for airport improvements. Bills Approved pass both houses of the legislature. New Mines Tax Among the bills signed by GovThe Governor signed Monday S. ernor Henry H. Blood during the B. 192, which changes the method past week wrere: of taxing metalliferous mines. It S. B. 2, providing for old age reduces the multiple from three to assistance, and its companion two and levies any occupational (Continued on page 3) Per Copy Kers Agree to Negotiate By M. I. T. Tell Em About It! 5 Cent ir Corp. and Auto News and Comment Dictatorship Price: I' Compiled From Reports of Observers Both Lewis and Chrysler arrived here Wednesday mornMichi-gaing upon the invitation of Governor Frank Murphy of The Chrysler Corporation has agreed that while the negotiations are in progress manufacturing operations will not be resumed in the Chrysler plants and no tools, dies or machinery will be moved from any of the plants. Mr. Lewis in turn agreed for the immediate evacuation of strikers in the Chrysler plants. the President Homer Martin of the U. A. W. immediately took steps to take a vote of the strikers on the evacuation issue. Mr. Martin joined Lewis in recommending the workers to leave the plants during the negotiations. Late Wednesday night the strikers in the De Soto plant of the corporation voted unanimously to evacuate. It was the first of the eight striker-helplants to be visited by union sit-do- d explaining the proposal withdraw. Early Thursday morning votes were taken in the rest of the plants. the The conference between Mr. and leaders union Chrysler resumed at 10 a. m. Thursday. The only major point of conflict remaining before the conference was the question of whether the United officials to MINERS VOTE ON WAGES MARCIIJ29 The Utah district executive council of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Sunday erased from the records all action taken by local unions on the proposed sliding wage scale and directed that the six local unions should hold a referendum election on the proposal Monday, March 29. The arrangements for the formal polls will be in charge of local union officers in Park City, Bingham, Lark, Tooele, Eureka, and Bauer. opposed to only 43.6 per cent of the persons interviewed. Simultaneously other questions in the survey indicated a belief by 61.7 per cent that the Republican party will revive, although but 21.7 per cent believed that it would Automobile Workers shall be recognized as sole collective bargain- ing agent for all Chrysler em- ployes. A month ago 85 per cent of the Chrysler employes voted designating the U. A. W. as their sole representative, and accordingly it is expected before the day is over the will corporation representatives agree to recognize the union as the employes sole representative. LABORONITS FORWARD MARCH DETROIT (UNS) Homer Martin, president of the U. A. W., predicted that collective bargaining agreements will be signed by union representatives and the Chrysler Corporation this week. More than 100,000 members of the United Automobile Workers union held a mass demonstration at Cadillac square here against police n strikers. The eviction of was addressed by Mr. meeting Martin. He predicted the entire automobile industry will be working under union agreement within a short time. sit-dow- The meeting in Salt Lake City Sunday morning determined Favor Third Term a Majority opinion favoring third term in office for President Roosevelt is revealed in the current issue of Fortune magazine. The discovery appears in the Fortune eighth quarterly survey where, answering questions on a possible Roosevelt third term, 48.4 per cent of those polled either favored a third term outright or favored it if President Roosevelts second term proved successful. Complete opposition to the third term principle came from but 26 per cent of those polled, while 7.4 per cent voiced opposition because of disapproval of President Roosevelt, bringing the total of those n. that the Eureka and Tooele locals which voted favorably in referendums would be required, to hold another vote, as well as the Bingham and Park City locals, which rejected 300,000 Members Dues paying membership in the ings. Formal votes which were United Automobile Workers - of scheduled in Lark and Bauer this America will exceed 300,000 by the week were postponed until March end of this month. This is the es-- ( Continued on page 3) 29. the proposed scale in regular meet- The difference between a corporation and a cooperative; The Cooperative The Corporation business is conducted The (1) conducted (1) The business is of the consumers. the benefit for mainly for the benefit of stockhas but stockholder (2) Every holders. one vote no matter how many at stockholders shares he may own. There Is no (2) Voting meetings is carried on in accord- voting by proxy. ance with the number of shares (3) Shares of stock are sold at held. par value through the cooperative. is no speculation or watering in Value There varies shares of (3) accordane with market demands. of stock. (4) Share capital is paid the leSpeculation is not only permitted but encouraged. gal rate of interest. Earnings are to members in proporto distributed owners the (4) Earnings go in proportion to the amount they tion to their patronage. have invested. (5) The incentive of the memis quality, economy and serber of stockholders The incentive 5) vice. is mainly that of profit-seekin- recover in something like its old form. Forty per cent believed that it will recover under new and more liberal leaders, while 6.6 per cent believed it will be succeeded by another party and 8.9 per cent held it is permanently dead. Other sidelights on the national scene revealed by the survey include the fact that while 26.3 per cent of those polled believe that Cooperation is a nonpolitical and the depression is over, 19.8 per voluntary-methowhereby the cent believe that it is not over. Ma- people unite and use their rejority opinion, with 51.4 per cent, sources to supply their needs. The believes it is getting over. The purpose is to get the largest possisurvey, however, shows a marked ble direct access to the things that increase in this optimistic group people want. These are the words over the past three months, the of J. P. Warbasse, who has been January, 1937, survey having re- for many years president of the ported 34.8 per cent holding the Cooperative League of the USA, belief that the depression was the educational agency of the (Continued on page 4) American consumers cooperative g. movement. Dr. Warbasse explains further; Through cooperative societies the consumers perform for themselves the useful functions of supply which are otherwise performed by profit business, by the political state, by charity, or by the unaided individual. These services are; The retail distribution of commodities, such (Continued on Page 5) |