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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. JULY 9, 1937. 8 Editorial Page ofi KMTORIAIL (Continued from Page 1) dents Madison Square Garden speech just before the last elec- tion and study the objectives therein set forth in the light of what the supreme court had decided up to that time. Fairly considered, it was a frank avowal of those objectives which then and there were put before the voters for approval or disapproval, notwithstanding what the supreme court had said. In the light of the election returns there can be no doubt as to the objectives for which the people voted. It is the duty of the President, the senators and the representatives so elected to try to carry this will of the people into effect. Tin Utaln . News H-i- abor whelming majority of this nation has little patience with that small minority which vociferates today prosperity has returned, that wages are good, that crop prices are high, and that government should take a holiday." The causes which brought on the depression have not been removed, and they must be removed if another depression with even more serious consequences is to be avoided. There are three possible courses open to us: First, to do nothing. This, in our opinion, will prove fatal to our existing institutions. Second, to amend the Constitution. This, we believe to be both unnecessary and entirely impractical. Third, to make such changes in the supreme court as may be made within the Constitution. The congress should act in the best way open to bring about immediate relief. That way we are convinced is the way the President has proposed. of cant his fellows be done. would find, "It As Thomas Sees Spain was asked "What is truth? many years ago. "What are the facts about Spain, is being asked today. Among the many answers is one by Norman Thomas clergyman) in The, Nation for June 1U. We make a brief quotation with permission: "Our friends met us with the bad news that early that morning Barcelona had been bombed; that no military objective had been achieved, and no public building hit, but that much devastation had been wrought in residential districts and perhaps a hundred lives lost. "Wc visited first one of the working-clas- s districts most damaged. What we saw and heard was pretty much a repetition of what we had seen and heard in Valencia when German or Italian I bombodlit 24 With this issue, the Utah Labor News begins the eighth fers Our government is a representative democracy. The people decide general principles and general objectives and elect their representatives to decide on the best means of applying those principles and attaining those objectives. So in this instance the people decided in favor of the general principles of the New Deal and elected those senators and members of the house of representatives to decide how best to carry them into effect. The last election was the mandate of the people, binding and efficient work for the betterment of the people wasanger not on the President alone but as well on all those elected with year of it, active I hese producers are the I soijn an(j Franco think that these him on the same platform. The only question, therefore, that conditions of the producers of Utah. and business men. j attacks are destroying the morale the congress should debate is how it can best accomplish this. wage workers, farmers, and professional of the Spaniards, they are entirely mistaken. The dictators have not Congress should no longer debate whether it ought or ought not be accomplished. put enough planes into the Spanish It is no time for an appeal from the national elections of workers and for the advancement of all those problems that are I war to destroy great cities as they destroyed Guernica. Foreign avia- a - ,n die interest of the average citizen. 1932 i i 1936 . tors can ram sudden death or a livpy those who at these elections advocat- I he Utah Labor News was launched at the beginning or( I ed another political philosophy, or perhaps it would be more acing, horror worse than death upon curate to say by those who opposed this philosophy and ad- - the worst depression in American history. It was started be-- 1 sleeping Spanish cities and the vocated no other. Yet we find those who then were its op- - cause the workers of Utah needed a medium to carry on an ed-- 1 women and children in them. But I ponents, and a few of those who then were thought to be its ad- - ucational campaign in economics, social welfare, and political murder ofwomen and I problems. children is the background for that . vocates, seeking to reopen the whole question anew. In its mission to speak in behalf of the workers editorially I bombing of the Deutschland which Anyone elected on the New Deal platform should feel it grave international reper- his duty to carry out that mandate. This includes the plan for and in news columns the Utah Labor News has done its duty. I I reorganization of the supreme court proposed by the President It has constantly taught that the home was the very foundation focertain wLtLtheermaor I because, by the process of elimination, there is no other practical of good government and civilized society. the Spanish version of that inci- I dent is correct. of the future the New of and look the In no case was out can to the Deal, of another we At coming principles way carrying beginning year to the relief of a distraught people, and remedying the evils in with a smile. The Utah Labor News is well established. The I Hitler justified. He took his des-osocial and economic systems which threaten the very con- - circulation is constantly growing; it is largest in our history, I Almeriaa city inno way' response tinuance of our capitalistic system and our democratic form of and second to none in the state. Subscribers appreciate the for the act of aviators over the forts put forth to make the Utah Labor News the best labor and I harbor of Palma. He asked for no government. There is nothing in the President's court reform proposal social economic publication in America. The subscribers are I adjudication of fact and no repara-whic- h lessens the power of the court. The proposed new judges paying their subscriptions, and the business men find the Utah! jhigandhonoran I eEijroan will be as free as their predecessors in all respects. What is Labor News one of the best advertising mediums in its field. for the Am- i know, press needed and what the proposal provides is not subservient judges We express our sincere appreciation to the thousands of I erican, in discussing this whole d more judges. The present court is, in large friends who have stood by us during the past seven years. We I fair largely lost sight of the fact the It is that are thankful for this splendid support, and we hope for their to be exact, not measure, I 1 which has brought on the crisis; it is that which makes some rem-- continued support and cooperation. Italian hands, amTthaf itls js 1 so-the since of decisions In the trend the of labor advancement the base for attacks like those on movement; economic, edy imperative. Despite encouraging the Presidents proposal was first advanced, it is not safe to Jcial and liberal political problems in this state, the Utah Labor I Valencia and Barcelona. The men Sphered among the trust the destiny of 130,000,000 people to a single and unpre-jNew- s has played an important part. No honest and truthful 1 an. dictable judicial mind. mJg0were not person can deny this fact. We promise that this publication will theirTpan- Talk of dictatorship seems fanciful. But if it is to be fear continue in the future as it has in the past to the glory and jsh foes in a civilcursing war but the ed, from which direction does it threaten? of the men and women who toil in industry and on the man and Italian assassins, whose . attacks may not even have been ' The present danger is not of the Executive encroaching farm ranco unt aHer they on the judicial. The danger is of the judicial encroaching on It is through cooperative and collective action, intelligently the legislative. applied, that workers have any hope of freeing themselves. In Was there ever in any democracy a dictatorship compara-- 1 this advocacy of cooperation and organization in the economic, Conscience Wins ble with that of Mr. Justice Roberts? As his opinion changes social and political fronts, the Utah Labor News has led, and According to his recent confession in San Francisco Douglas he prohibits or permits the fixing by great sovereign states of a I will continue to lead in the future, Banks murdered Morris Nasofer of I minimum wage for tens of millions of working people. He The best paper, ever, is our policy. With your continued Parksville, N. Y., 17 years ago. lays down and later reverses the fundamental law of 30,000,-- j support we shall be of greater service to humanity. For 17 years the police had failed to locate Banks. His recent trial 000 Americans. reminds us of a lively article in The powers of congress and of the President, of the Fed- - j NEWS AND COMMENT dently an unusual woman. Scribners for July, The Perfect eral government, and of the state governments expand and con In it the reader is reMurder. It Cant Be Done tract as Justice Roberts speaks from the bench. He is not anminded of several unsolved murfrom 1) with page (Continued You cant scratch your ear ders. swerable to anyone. The Constitution is what he thinks it is. In bar iron or file an elbow When the news first came that your Where the police had failed When his mind tends in one direction, railroad retirement, mu her husband had been elected to the two with a cake of soap or get Banks conscience won. An agnosthe rest of the comnicipal bankruptcy, and minimum-wag- e legislation are unconsti- - office of president she announced- along without tic young surgeon once claimed to According Edgar tutional; when it tends in the other direction, gold clause, milk that she would not live in the pal- munity. Guest a fellow thought he could that the human being had no soul. control mortgage moratorium, minimum wage, and social 8e- throw a stone through a window. He had cut into every organ and A lawyer had to be called in to pro- couldnt locate one. He probably . cuntyvrlegislation i are constitutional ofiG is reported as Demf it ex tect him. His mother took sick never cut into a conscience either Tet while this is called democracy and government ot tremely unassuming woman al- and over a it doctor was called. He but it appears to be a very effecthe people, by the people and for the people, the Presidents though considered one of the most called a nurse. Brothers and sis- tive part of man. mild proposal for reform is branded as dictatorship and talented peasant women in Finland, ters were sent for. This entailed A man mean enough to smear a drives some newspapers and old ladies of both sexes into hyste-- 1 With only an elementary school the services of telephone operators, 1 laundress-filthy thought through a clean trainmen, grocery clerks, ria. It i, true the sama situation might arise with an enlarged anTs'hep? es and so on. The person who young mind would go about blotchcourt, but it is less likely to arise, and we are now faced with social activities completely out of would live independent of the rest ing old blood on white hyacinths. this actual fact, which endangers much New Deal legislation, her life. But now her innate this danger the proposal offers an escape, at least tempo- - pacity for adjustment is well illustrated by the ease with which she , orily. We cannot go on indefinitely with four out of nine justices c?jv?tfeso adamantly opposed to every idea which was not current a gen- - hold of the presidential residence, eration ago. We cannot breathlessly each Monday make our ' President Kallios wife is mark time until learn where we Justice Roberts economy or some other reactionary Justice stands. The President and Wishing continued success for The Utah Congress cannot plan and enact into law an intelligent Labor News at the beginning of its Eighth program such as the situation demands and the people have called for. year of good work in behalf of Labor, The masses of the people who now suffer from adverse and the New Deal Agriculture economic conditions will hold their government responsible. If their government is prevented from being used to remedy these conditions and it makes no difference who is responsible for preventing it the end will be the same as it has been in other countries. Our present capitalistic system will be changed somehow, and our democratic form of government will probably be Congressman changed, too. In other words, recovery from the depression, which we have experienced, does not mean recovery from the First Congressional District causes which brought on the depression. As the President said in a recent message. The over- vj-tan- f.is I ur ef-Jb- le I l af-b- ut , open-minde- four-ninth- s, open-minde- 1?' d. Ger-hon- I 1 I 'I rcteTlerind.' ca-Fro- evi-who- far-reachi- m j le Congratulations ng Abe Murdock or |