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Show v- , -V Review ofi Cuarrent Evento V,. V t u., i EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL VII; NO. 45. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. MAY UPCSERffl, Pricet 14, 1937. 5 Ccnti Per Copy DITORIIAL! flews and Comment Judicial . Stop Dictatorship By M. I. T. In a recent address, Homer S. Cummings, attorney general of t AUTO ACCIDENTS CONSTITUTE United States, supported the Presidents court reform plan, and afn si Be Kind to Your Feet explaining the different phases of the chief executives proposal, sa Be kind to your feet and they GRAVE SOCIAL PROBLEM The President further recommended the adoption of a propo ill take you places in case you now pending in congress to extend to the justices of the supreme coiT se control of your car you know the retirement privileges long ago made available to other Fedei hat we mean. Automobile accidents constitute an increasingly grave social probjudges. He also recommended that the congress provide that no One never knows when one will lem. They constitute a highly serious economic problem as well best cision, injunction, judgment, or decree on any constitutional quest! xf ave to look down and say, Old estimates I be promulgated by any Federal court without previous and ample place the annual money waste of highway mishaps at more et, all these years Ive looked than $1,500,000,000. tice to the attorney general and an opportunity for the United States fter you, now show your apprecia-oAs a consequence, the problem is gaining the attention of econpresent evidence and be heard in behalf of the constitutionality of c You remember the line, bom omists as well as humanitarians, and financial journalists as well as law under attack. Ue further recommended that in cases in which of on the cow in a pasture spur and automobile a j highway engineers. distinct court determines a question of constitutionality there shall be dewhen a papa-coWith few exceptions, each post-wdirect and immediate appeal to the supreme court, and that such cases the moment year has witnessed an incided to play tag with the intruding crease in deaths, injuries and property damages due to automobiles. shall take precedence over all other matters pending in that court. Last year a new all-tirecord was established, with 38,000 deaths This is the sum and substance of what the President proposes. author. rewhether rate At you and any 1,300,000 other casualties. This year, if the increases registered This is the attack upon our judicial institutions. member or not the aforesaid in the early months continue throughout the year, 1937 will witness Despite the manifest need of these reforms, despite the comprerecord. . hensive and reasonable nature of these proposals, despite the long his- gentleman negotiated the nearby the establishment of still another all-tifive-wir- e without fence and wings authorities statesare and eminent the which them Safety organizations judges discouraged by past exforth, despite tory brought men who have either expressed views or actually proposed measures which he might have worn had the periences and future prospects, but they are not dismayed. Flans now underway call for the most aggressive accident prevention campaign of substantially the same character, the President is now in storm cen- bull been a little faster. show to if Which all that goes the The last political campaign yet made in this country. Principal organization in the field is the ter of a virulent attack. technique of has been revived. We are solemnly assured that the courts are to be you want your feet to perform National Safety Council which is publicizing the need for strict drivers made mere appendages to the executive office, that the judges to be some such feat for you, sometimes license laws, for standardization of traffic laws and signals, and a general tightening up of the strictures designed to hold the reckless appointed cannot be trusted to support the Constitution, and that the you had better be kind to them. In what condition are your feet and incompetent in check. Effort is being given to create safety comtragedies of despotism await only the adoption of the Presidens recomto perform some such feat for you, mittees in each state which will be at work all the time, will do away mendations. Yet no serious objection has been made to any one of the pur- sometimes you had better be kind with sporadic, poorly organized drives which, as past experience shows, have been almost 100 per cent failures. poses or to any part of the plan, except its application to certain mem- to them. The automobile industry i3 likewise cooperating for a variety of In what condition are your feet bers of the supreme court. Why the supreme court should be granted If to able been no one has the from a special exemption explain. plan right now? No, we dont mean reasons, humane and financial. It is undeniable that this industry has there were no judges on that court of retirement age, there would be that. Are they free from corns, done wonders in Tecent years in making cars mechanically and strucno substantial objection from any responsible quarter. What, then, is callouses, bunions, et cetera. At turally safer. Advanced new cars even have recessed instruments and the real objection? It is simply this: Those who wish to preserve the the recent 29th annual convention door handles, so that in case of a crash the occupants wont strike status quo want to retain on the bench judges who may be relied upon of the Massachusetts Chiropody against projecting pieces of metal. Some manufacturers lately agreed (Continued on Page 2) Association it was brought out to refrain from stressing speed in their ads, in order to keep the buyers that 9 out of 10 people have de(Continued on page 7) fective pedal extremities. If you want to be athletic when some bull faces you to a fence you dont want athletes foot. Of course wre dont know what kind of foot trouble you do want, but then you have quite a choice. These experts Witnesses Get Foretaste of Doomsday Even Kentucky Min- claim that there are more kinds of foot ailments than Heinz has More Than 3500 Salt Lake County Miners, Smelter and Mill ers Quail at Facing Senators La Follette and Thomas v pickles 73 kinds, to be exact. Workers Joining the International Union of Mine, Mill and Story of Intrigue and Corrupt Politics Revealed. But if your feet fail you, dont Smelter Workers United Minis Workers Meet With Utah blame "us for not' reminding you on that Coal Mine Operators Steel Union Now Has 325,000 that the average life walk is 65,000 Sidney Olson in the Washington Post, notes and the Members C. I. of the citizens O. the Textile good hereafter, Drive Gains 65,000 Members Doomsday, they say, (Continued on page 8) Recorder. in the file before a Month. the ungodly alike, will pass in single n. w ar I so-call- ed Senate Hearings for Bloody Harlan Drama One by one, the records of their doings and their undoings will be recited before the Final Committee, and then judgment will be pronounced. No doubt many a drop of perspiration will sprinkle the floor as certain deeds are explored, and no doubt many a stone-castwill be forced to pluck a quantity of beams from his own eyes Likewise, lights will appear countrys great corporations have from under bushels, and the scutch squirmed under examination, and eons of some will be found to be here the men who sell arms and without a stain. to the ammunition and tear-ga- s Not to carry a somewhat blas- companies have described their phemous analogy further, and to selling methods. herd all these words right up to Kentucky Mountaineers the point, it is now agreed by one men who sit there these days The and all that a great number of citi- are mountain men froin Kentucky. zens have had at least a faint fore- They are miners and taste of Doomsday right here in judges, sheriffs and deputy sheriffs er mine-owner- Washington, before the Senate Civil Liberties committee. This committee is really a subcommittee of two members of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor. These two members are, as you face them, which heaven forbid, Senators Robert M. La Follette (Progressive) of Wisconsin, and Elbert D. Thomas (Democrat) of Utah. Plays to Full House They sit at the toe of a horseshoe desk, raised three steps from the floor, flanked by their investigators and the press. Down in the wTell between the two heels of the horseshoe, facing into it and up at the inquisitors, sit the victims. Behind the man in the witness chair sit the audience, and it is worthy of note that while ball-par- k bleachers and theater balconies remain unfilled, the Civil Liberties committee has never yet played to an empty house. Standing Room Only has been the invariable rule since the committees first session last September. This goes for reporters, too, and a newsman who arrives after the hearings have begun can either write standing up, shifting from foot to foot and back to foot again, or go home. The witnesses take their seats, one by one, in a red leather swivel-cha- ir at a little table in the well, a chair that is only slightly less deadly than if it were equipped with electrodes and leather straps. Here the industrial spies of the s, from Harlan County, darkly famous as Bloody Harlan. To understand conditions in Harlan county in the recent past, just a touch of background is needed. This can most easily be supplied from a brief quotation from a court order for removal of a man named John Middleton to another county for trial on a charge of murder. It reads: It is personally known to the judge of this district that there has been more crime in Harlan County than in any county in the State of Kentucky, that there has been almost a total disregard for the law . . . and there now exist more than 800 Commonwealth cases on the dockets of Harlan county, many of the charges being against the Middleton family, which is one of the largest families in Harlan county, and a great deal of intimidation of witnesses, and even killing of witnesses have taken place in this county . . . Local jurymen are afraid to do their duty. The committee has disclosed in the last week that Middleton, in his three years in office, has appointed 379 deputies to office as his assistants. Eight of these are paid by the county the others by the coal companies and by the Harlan County Coal Operators Association. Of the 379, about 104 have lengthy criminal records, in which murder, criminal assault and other crimes figure largely. Gov. Laffoons report went over (Continued on page 3) Labor on Its Forward March; C. I. O. Is Active Political Outlook In Utah and U. S. Compiled From Reports of Observers Eldred M. Royle, Utah district secretary of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, a C. I. O. affiliate, reported organization plans well under way to bring into the C. I. O. union the more than 3500 metal miners, smelter and mill workers in Salt Lake county. Meet at Magna A meeting for the Arthur and Magna mill workers of the Utah Copper company Monday night at the Gem theater in Magna was well attended and steps were taken to reorganize the Magna local and bring in some 800 workers ef that district into the union fold. The meeting was addressed by Utah district president, and thur Ashby of Eureka. Ar- The recently formed local union of the Garfield smelter workers Three National Problems has about 80 per cent enrollment Among the unsolved national of all employes. problems, three of outstanding imThe employes of the Murray portance now confront the Ameriplant of the American Mining and can people, and are entitled to our Smelting company will meet this best thought and cooperation the (Friday) evening at 8 o'clock to necessity for eliminating excessive form an organization. unemployment, the improvement The workers at the Midvale plant of labor relations, and the balancthe United States Smelting and of ing of the public budgets. Mr. (Continued on Page 2) Royle, H. A. Davis of Tooele, The three problems mentioned possibly contain the answer to the Are we often asked question: headed for another depression or a change in our form of government within the next 10 years? And the more you study the three main questions, the more difficult of solution they become. Assume a national viewpoint and ask Will the Girls Dormitory Be Heated by Natural Gas? These yourself how you would solve these Vital Are the Questions In the Minds of Biggest Taxpayproblems. Many responses occur ers and Warmest Supporters of the State University-Frie- nds to you, but think them through and what have you? Can we now of Utahs Coal Industry Should Get Busy Immediwithdraw the Federal government ately and See To It That This Institution Supports Its from the role of emergency emSupporters. ployer? Are private business and to hire every industry ready Is the university building going to use natural gas) Shall the wrorthy employable ? government leave to employers and Will the university authorities slap in the face one of its their employes the settlement of greatest revenue producers the coal industry) their increasing controversies? Before the regents of the University of Utah decide to inCongress has enacted and the supreme court has sustained the Na- stall a natural gas heating plant in the new $200,000 girls dortional Labor Relations Act design- mitory, they had better do a little thinking and investigating. ed to bring about the peaceful adThey must take into consideration the importance of the differjustment of capital-labo- r ences. If the law does not point coal industry in Utah. the way to right and justice for the They should realize that there is paid daily to Utah coal and the public, mine employes, for each day Utah coal mines operate, $35,000. parties themselves further efforts must be made by The daily proportion of the railroad mans wages for haulcongress. each days output of Utah coal to Utah markets is $15,000. The Federal budget can be bal- ing Wages paid daily to Utah men tem jn the university. The protest anced by discontinuing relief work, for unloading, yard labor and should be made to the state buildeliminating the CCC, curtailing the coal in Utah, for every jing commission and the board of trucking social security program, and by reday of the year, an agents of the University of Utah. working of number other emergenducing a excess of $3000. in amount It has been learned that the cy and regular expenditures. Shall board of regents has agreed on the Should Protest we cut to the bone iow, or should citizen of plans for heating with natural gas we make one more drive to reach Every should hill a we the file protest against the new girls dormitory to be con-- ( have been Utah the top of on Continued on page 4) the (Continued page 5) contemplated gas heating sys- - Will U. of U. Regents Ignore Best Taxpayers - . fair-mind- ed |