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Show Review o Current Events THE PEOFLTS EDUCATE ORGANIZE PAPElf JJG COOPERATE MU VOL VIII; NO. 3. S -- W OMTORIIALS- (Front Line Trenches, Washington, D. C. Special Dispatch from Kate Richards OHare, War Correspondent.) The Herd Instinct The biggest bear I ever shot attacked a cow on the farm of Joe Borer, Olson Valley, Ontario. When the bear slashed one cows shoulder and then grabbed it by the neck, the other cows began milling around, gouging it with their horns. This instinct which makes the animals attack a fearful creature as a common enemy is raised to its highest degree in the human be ing. .Human beings combine their drought efforts in combating plagues, floods, disease and crime However, humanity is seen at its best when it is human enough to take part in mass movements to make possible dangers less probable. Crime is forestalled in the girls and boys clubs, public and church schools and in homes that have some positive character development program. Disease is fought in the laboratory. in the board of healths sanitation .provisions, in eradicating diseases among animals, that might be contracted by humans. Human beings who are in a ligher class than animals willingly take part in horning off common dangers. Dy M. I. T. they were not consulted, and that tactics are beunfair, to them their con used ing deny stitutional and inalienable right to work. They complain bitterly that they were elected to work; that their outraged constituents expect them to work, and that they (Continued on page 4) an sit-dow- I Wisconsin Launches a Huge Electric Power Program - SENATOR KING AND HIS BROKEN PROMISES Senator William H. King in his campaign for reelection in 1934 made solemn pledges to support President Roosevelt and the New Deal program. Among these pledges were: He promised to vote for the extension of the NRA and for the retention therein of Section providing for the right to organize and bargain collectively, and the prohibition of child 7-- A, labor. Senator King agreed to support social justice legislation providing for old age pensions, unemployment insurance, work security and health protection. The senior senator from Utah promised to support and vote for a measure providing that all codes under the NRA should contain a week and a day clause. He declared that he would support labor disputes legislation approved by organized labor. Senator King solemnly vowed that he was for legislation providing for adequate appropriations necessary for public works program as a partial remedy for unemployment and for 30-ho- six-ho- ur ur (Continued on page 8) Special to the Utah Labor News. Do You Know This? Only one national bank has MADISON, Wis. A statewide power program of far the U. S. during the past reaching implications was enacted into law July when Cover failed inmonths. (J. F. T. nor Philip F. La Follette signed the Wisconsin Developmen twenty Authority bill which proposes to set up a little TV A for the state. Approximately 4,000,000 are constantly exposed to One of the most significant legislative proposals of the (Continued on page 8) present session, passage of the La Follette administrations power program represents a dramatic victory after three ex citing months of stormy and florid debate, parliamentary Political Outlook maneuvers, and exhaustive struggles to kill the bill In The new law designates the Wisconsin Developmen Utah and U. S. k Authority, a private corporation set up states instrumentality to en by Governor La Follette, as the Compiled From Reports ' of Observers elec formation of rural courage trie cooperatives, municipal power clares the state not responsible for 1 non-stoc- non-profi- t, districts and municipal ownership of utilities with a state appropriation of $60,000 a year. With funds derived from other sources, the corporation may itself engage in enterprise within the utility field. The freshly signed power law limits the activities of the WDA solely to the utility field, exempts telephone utilities, and de the debts of the Authority. Protects Honest Investors In a radio talk which was part of the power bill signing ceremony Governor La Follette said, Let no one believe that any responsible person in Wisconsin is interested in a program that is destructive. We all want to build not destroy (Continued on page 6) Labor on Its Forward March; C. I. O. Is Active ALL CITIZENS SHOULD ORGANIZE The C. I. O., the A. F. of L, the railroad brotherhoods, and the farmers, have a right to organize. All American people agriculture, white collar, and all labor should organize for the betterment of their conditions, and to maintain decent standards of living. The Utah Labor News is for the organization of all unorganized men and women. We are for any labor organization which is doing a good job. We are strong for the C. I. O. because it is doing a good job of organizing the unorganized. It is doing a better job than any other organization on record. This does not mean that we are against the A. F. of L. Far from " it. We are supporting A. F. of L. unions that are making an honest in this country there must be, a effort in behalf of the wage work- sympathetic understanding between ers. But we do not approve of the labor and farmer. But there is an insidious move in illegal actions of the A. F. of L. this country to prejudice the farmexecutive council in suspending ers against the worker who beunions international the for great to a labor union. Today there great sin of organizing the unor- longs is and more vicious fight a harder ganized workers. made being against labor than ever Farmer and Labor before in the history of the country. We are for labor organization Even in the old days, when the and we are for the organization Knights of Labor were broken up, of the farmers, and we want the and later the A. F. of L. unions labor and farmer organizations to were beaten down for trying to understand each others problems and cooperate for the betterment of all humanity. There is nothing wrong in this. Many of the city workers came from farms. Most of them sympathize with the farmers. In fact, we believe, all intelligent workers sympathize with the farmers. They realize that if labor is to succeed ''&& M - A organize, the fight wras not so bitter it was not then so necessary. But now the people have made up their minds to organize, the big industrialists at least a few stubborn ones have decided that labor shall not organize. Mislead Fanners on Labor Propaganda is printed in the (Continued on Page 2) A r'flsvi i.) r 1037 Price: 5 Cents Per Copy AKE CITY, UTAH. JULY 23, 1937. News and Comment are increasingly loud murmurs of reace, peace! but the embattled stalwarts scornfully fling back the challenge: There is no peace!! Desperate Situation The situation is more desperate because at least 60 per cent of the n strikers congressional dont want to strike. They insist that no strike vote was taken; that I " JT L. SIT DOWN STRIKE IN CONGRESS Amid terrific nerve tension and withering heat the con gressional sit down strike on Capitol Hill has moved into its seventh month, with the battle line still holding, but beginning to buckle under the constant defection of pacifist-libera- l dissenters who are clamoring to go back to work. Grim and determined the stalwart reactionaries cheer their flagging spirits with the immortal words of General Grant: We will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer." V. All hope that the strike might be ended at the secret conference held on Jefferson .Island has dimmed to a faint flicker. Up and down the lines of weary, parboiled congressmen there rzr crr ABSURD TAX COLLECTION If there ever was anything absurd, the most absurd of all absurdities is the method of collecting sales taxes in Utah. . . . The Chinese tokens, or whatever you want to call them, slow up business, and cause hardships with the folks who have only a nickel The above chart (hows the gain and losses by states in the nation- -' to spend and no tax tokens. wide campaign now being waged for highway safety. During the The token system is starving the first five months of 1937 automobile fatalities increased 17 as hungry. . . . There are a number compared with the same period of 1936, in the 29 states from which of persons in Salt Lake City who fatality reports were received. have only a nickel to spend for a cup of coffee and roll at a cheap AND YOULL DRIVE FARTHER DRIVE CAREFULLY restaurant. . . . Today they are deprived of this meager meal because According to data released by the Aetna Casualty & Surety Comthey lack the sales tax token of pany, automobile fatalities increased 17 fA during the first five months one mill denomination. of 1937, as compared with the same period of 1Q36. In the 29 states Your Observer has done- some which the following statistics were compiled,, such deaths totaled from investigating and finds that the (Continued on page 5) tax tokens are very unpopular with a majority of the buying pub. Many men do not care to ic. carry a pocketful of tokens in d heir already pockets. Theater-goer- s must stand longer in waiting line while the cashier is making change for the tokens, and watching other business houses, all your Observer can say is that it Convention Opens Monday, August 2 Delegates Will Attend is a terrible system. It is a From United States and Canada The 1937 Meet Is Excostly system. . . . This system costs the average business house pected To Be Largest in History Because of Thousands of more than it will enrich the state. New Members and Many New Local Unions Many DeleNo doubt the present token sys-;egates from Utah Will Attend. will unpopularize the sales tax to the extent that a legislature The 34th annual convention of the International Union of will be elected in 1938 pledged to whole the law. tax sales repeal Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers will meet in Denver, the headquarters city, commencing on August 2 at 0 oclock a. m. DelePEOPLES PARTY gates from local unions throughout the United States and ANNIVERSARY Canada will attend. All of the local unions in Utah will be Friday, July 2, 1937, passed represented at this important meeting by one or more delegates. quietly into history, honored only The officers and executive board members will convene in in the by a handful of week prior to the convention date to transact business progressive movement as the 45th Denver a annual reports which ventions of this fast growing orand complete anniversary of the first national will be for the considera- ganization. presented Peoples party convention in 1892. . . . It was 45 years ago that H. L. tion of the delegates at the convenReid Robinson of Butte, MonLoucks of South Dakota called to tion. is president of the organizatana, Large Attendance Expected order the convention which launchtion, and A. E. Sherwood of Ruth, ed a new national party. . . . That This year's meeting is expected Nevada, is secretary - treasurer. to headed have more accredited delegates Glenn Gillespie of Tooele is a by presidential party, on Page 5) on Page 7) than ever before in the annual con - - J .. Mine, Mill and Smelter over-loade- Workers Meet in Denver ... m 1 old-time- rs can-continu- ed mem-(Continu- ed ? ax |