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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 14. 1937. 2 restaurants and hotels are under mittee, and Virgil Wright, U. M. of district 22, treasurer consideration. secretary-- labor Utafj Established 1929 POWER CO. EMPLOYES MEMBER OF THE A CASPER, Wyo. (UNS) Becoming charter members of a chapter of the United Electrical and Radio Workers of America, an affiliate of the C. I. 0., more than 40 emPowployes of the Mountain State er company organized. Officers elected for the new labor group were F. II. Smith, president; It. T. Markle, vice president; F. R. Brown, recording secretary; A. A. Christensen, financial secretary and treasurer; L. D. Sutherland, Tom Mackay and E. C. Smith, trustees. Carl Thomason and Captain J. E. Frisby, as representatives of local C. I. 0. affiliates, assisted in the installation of officers and spoke on organized labor. This paper receives Union News Service, a C. 1. 0. affiliate. -- 04 matter March 28, 1930, at the post office Entered as second-clas- s at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription $1.50 per annum Advertising rates by request. Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. . Publisher M. I. THOMPSON L M. THOMPSON Office Manager COURT SUPREME from Page 1) (Continued ' . to veto progressive measures. Opponents of this measure assert that it is immoral. The reason that they charge that it is immoral is becaue they are usnable to charge be must not or immoral is the Whether unconstitutional. is it plan tested by the results it produces. If it produces a wholesome result in a perfectly legal way, it can scarcely be called immoral. It is true that the Presidents proposal may possibly but not necessarily have the effect of increasing the size of the supreme court. Cut there is nothing new in that. Jetrerson, Jackson, Lincoln, and Grant, together with the congresses of their respective periods, saw no objection to enlarging the court. Again, it is loosely charged that the present proposal is a bold attempt to pack the court. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every increase in the membership of a court is open to that charge, and, indeed, every replacement is subject to the same objection. Under the President's proposal, if there is increase in the total number of judges, it will be due entirely to the fact that judges now of retirement age elect to remain on the bench. If those judges think it would be harmful to the court to increase its membership, they can avoid that result by retiring upon full pay. The Constitution imposes upon all presidents the duty of appointing federal judges, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. Upon what ground, may I ask, do the opponents of the President justify the claim that he shall not perform the duty that all other presidents have performed? George Washington appointed 12 members of the supreme court. Jackson appointed five. Lincoln appointed five. Grant appointed four. Harrison appointed four. Taft appointed five, and elevated still another to be Chief Justice. Harding appointed four, and Hoover appointed three. President Roosevelt has appointed none at all. It is assumed and sometimes asserted that the appointees under the present recommendation would be subservient to the Executive. Recorded experience belies that contention. All judges must be approved by the senate, and once seated are not subject to Executive domination or control. Out of every flight of hysteria on this question there comes a further charge that the Presidents proposals will lead to dictatorship establishment of an evil precedent. But there have been through-thfar more significant precedents than this. Jefferson ignored a subpoena issued by Chief Justice Marshall. Jackson, in a stubborn moment, told the supreme court to try and enforce its own decrees. Lincoln totally disregarded Chief Justice Taneys demand that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus be restored. No one of these Presidents was a dictator, but each illustrated how powerless the courts are unless the' purity of their motives and the justice of their decisions win them the popular support. Indeed, the Supreme Court in its opinions has specifically recognized this fact. . Judicial Stop Dictatorship . Non-Partisa- n League Reports Success Special to the Utah Labor News WASHINGTON With one of the greatest national demonstra-tionever held to its credit, League is pushing hard in every direction to carry the fight for the Presidents court reform plan to every last; American voter. demonstration The nation-wid- e on April 19 wTas carried out exactly according to plan, except that it is not known even yet how many scores of mass meetings were held in the great program of cooperast tive opinion mobilizing. There were 24 key meetings, but in many states, notably Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York, Ohio and West Virginia, League state organizations literally dotted the entire areas with local meetings. Members of congress have been informed about meetings, as fast as reports have come to the League and messages have gone direct from local meetings to members elected from the community in which the local meeting was held. Intensive follow-u- p work is being done, so that none of the effect demonstration of the nation-wid- e be lost. Major George L. Berry, GEORGE L. BERRY Major George L. Berry, president of Labors League, has been appointed United States senator from Tennessee by Governor Browning. He succeeds the late Nathan L. Bachman, who died recently in Washington. The new Tennessee senator is an ardent supporter of the Presidents court reform plan. He is president of the International Pressmens union, and federal industrial coordinator. He is a progressive and g a Democrat. Non-Partis- an life-lon- political leaders. Today the League in Maine is a solid, well organized, active organization. New Jersey, New York and North Carolina state organizations have adopted constitutions and are operating on a thoroughly organized basis. In Florida a state constitution is being formulated and, it is understood, will be submitted to a national headquarters here. Perfection of state organizations means, President Berry points out, that the League is to be a permanent and perhaps deciding factor in the legislative field, as well as in the field of campaigning for election of political officials. He points out also that perfection of state means a great strengthening of the Leagues support of the President in moving New Deal objectives. to-wo- rd (Continued from page 1) Refining company met in Midvale Wednesday night.. Majority of the Midvale plant workers have enrolled in the union ranks. an old-tim- BEST WISHES TO LABOR Steinies the more con' venient bottle Jurri' and the ecobos 12-o- Collender Co. West South Temple St. Salt Lake City, Utah UNION MADE BAR FIXTURES AND SUPPLIES BILLIARD TABLES, BOWLING ALLEYS AND EQUIPMENT 55 Now available it z. 32-o- FINER BEER Handier Bottles z. nomical family' size bottle ytr) mmmm I THE BEST BUY IN - S CONFER ON AGREEMENT Representatives CAUFORNIA WIN2 of the United Mine Workers of America and Utah coal mine operators convened in joint session Tuesday to negowork and wage tiate a two-year agreement. A. C. Watts, assistant manager of the Utah Fuel Co., chairman of the operators committee was chosen as chairman of the joint com- EYE GLASSES At Wholesale to All ' Lenses Duplicated at Same Low Price Laboratories Optical Salt Lake 246 So. Main FORWARD MARCH ?be BruncvicIt-Ballt- e MINERS-OPERATOR- City LABOR ON ITS national League president and New Location author of the nation-wid- e meeting The new headquarters of district plan, expressed himself as delight- No. 2, International Union of Mine, ed with the response and as being Mill and Smelter Workers, are locertain of victory for the Presi- cated in room 404, Reason builddents plan. with Secretary E. M. Royle in ing, Labor, regardless of the internal For information perdivision, is united in support of the charge. to theany organization of this Presidents plan and is carrying taining C. I. 0. affiliate call in person or through in the campaign in com- telephone Wasatch 8915. Mr. Royle plete harmony and unity. is at the headquarters from 9 a m. to 12 noon each working day. Non-Partisa- n League Culinary Workers Permanent Units Salt Lake Culinary Workers union No. 815 is making an active drive for the organization of the Special to the Utah Labor News in Salt Lake WASHINGTON State organi- catering industry Startin of City, the reports Secretary zations of Labors local union. League are entering a new and perA number of new members have manent phase of existence, it is been received into the local and shown by reports to Major George union agreements with a number of L. Berry, national president of the League. State by state, the units are preparing and adopting constitutions for permanent operation. In national headquarters a model constitution is being prepared so that uniform provisions will govern the operation of this amazingly energetic movement in American political life. Maine was one of the first states to adopt a state constitution. Growth of the League in Maine has e astonished conservative Non-Partis- Casper Oil Workers CASPER, Wyo. (UNS) A general organization meeting for all workers engaged in any phase of the oil industry was held under auspices of the International Union of Oil Fit Id, Gas Well and Refinery Workers here. Men joining this group include refinery workers, oil field workers, pipeline men, tank truck drivers, tank car repairmen, natural gas production and distribution employes, filling station attendants, bulk station employes and clerks engaged in the oil industry. Speakers on the program were W. A. Urban, executive board member of the international, and James Morgan, a member of the Petroleum Workers Organizing committee. W. of A., was elected secretary of the meetings. Mr. Watts greeted representatives of both sides who convened at the offices of the Utah Coal Oper- ators association in the Ezra Thompson building. John M. Ross, president of the union for district 22, responded, and predicted harmonious relations between the operators and the union coal miners in this district. Representing the union in the conference are Mr. Ross, Albert Roberts, district vice president; Mr. Wright, and the following members of the Utah scale committee: A. M. Peterson, Castlegate; W. II. Williams, Standardville; Joe Dowd, Latuda; Richard Murray, Kenilworth; Alfred Carey, Scofield; Charles Simpkins, Consumers, and Richard Bishop, Hiawatha. The operators committee in- eludes Mr. Watts, Otto Herres, vice president and general manager United States Fuel Co., and president of the Utah Coal Operators association; Leonard E. Adams, vice president and manager Spring Canyon Coal Co. and Royal Coal Co.; Paul Keyser, president Independent Coal and Coke Co.; W. C. Stark, general manager Blue Blaze Coal Co.; George A. Schultz, superintendent Liberty Fuel Co., and B. P. Manley, execute mtinued on page 4) Keith Bldg. 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