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Show 0 UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. JANUARY 7, 1938 Page 6 NEWS AND COMMENT (Continued from page 1) Harpers magazine in which says in part: At this moment the air is fille with discordant and contradictory cries the cries of men who have interests to serve, business inter ests, or who have hatreds to sup port. The government has broken the back of industry, we hear. The stock market, nerve center of the capital markets, has been eviscer ated. Capital is on a sitdown strike. Taxes devour us and para lyze thrift. Coroporate executives have teen driven from the markets 'For Gods sake, let the insiders trade wires a former braintrust er to the SEC. The capital-gain- s The investment. tax starves economic royalists, we are told by others, are coldly preparing crash. The bears are selling the Administration short. It is al confusion, propaganda, terror. Out of this sort of talk nothing can come but trouble. Are we to leap to the conclusion that we are now headed hopelessly for the chasm? I think not if the business world will stop hating the President and if the President will stop playing politics and if we will all turn our ears away from the song of the promisers of abundance and look with simple realism at our situation. more, for most men to successfully LABOR ON ITS drive through those periods when, because of detours and condition.! FORWARD MARCH beynd their control, they have to gear their powers in low for (Continued from page 5) long, hard or untried pull. unions in the mas3 production in dustrics. It was willing to take SENTENCE back 10 suspended unions, but 22 STIMULANTS unions, with several million mem which received their inspire bers, The time to be a friend is be tion from the C. I. 0. were to be fore you need a friend. The time left to languish and die. is sure to come. Naturally, we could not agree to that. The business man talks loyalLet me add, in view of the rety. The preacher talks loyalty cent statement by Mr. Green that But if each is only loyal to his own at no time did the C. I. O. commain interest what does the casual mittee agree to the A. F. L. stip listener and observer think? ulations. Mr. Lewis did not need J to veto any such plan for no such When it comes to boosting the agreement was put before him. Mr. home town (or community) ana Green, I fear, ,has been misinformits institutions an ounce of ex- ed. As a matter of fact, the C. I. O. ample is worth a pound of preachment. committee found Mr. Lewis very cooperative during the negotiaA medium size dose of the prin- tions. He manifested throughout a ciple pf the Golden Rule would sincere desire to see all of Amersoon cure small town icas working men and women orpressure. ganized in strong, functioning ( low-loyal- ty unions. NEXT WEEK IN HISTORY LABOR ORGANIZATIONS (Looking forward to look back) January 9 Secession of Missis sippi from the Union, 1801. January 10 First steamboat reached New Orleans after three months trip from Pittsburgh, 1812. What men want in not talent, it January 11 Alexander Hamilton is purpose; not the power to statesman, born, 1757. Jack London, achieve, but the will to labor.-BulweJanuary 12 American author, born, 1876. Lytton. r Salmon I. January 1808. jurist, born, January 14 Peace treaty 13 THEY MAY KNOW U. S. BETTER Imagine yourself brought up in village outside of London. As a child your history books would teach you a lot about Americans fighting Indians. You would read about the number of black people here. As you grew up you would read about American gangsters, race-rioand lynchings; about Hollywood, dust storms and floods. You wouldnt have a very good impression of life in these United States. Realizing that most Britishers dont know the United States, a brilliant British barrister and justice of the peace has determined to write a book that will throw the light on the better side of Ameri can living. This gentleman is Fhilip Guedal-la- . He has written many worthwhile books of history and biog raphy and is now going up and down among us, studying our ways and customs at first hand. Who knows, possibly Britains Chamberlain and Uncle Sams Hull could have done more business ere this, had their peoples known each other better. ts TIIE THINKER Father: Isnt it wonderful how little chicks get out of their shells? Son: What gets me is how they get in! GEARING OUR KNOWLEDGE TO THE WHEELS OF PROGRESS A powerful engine under , the hood is of no value if you cant somehow make its power turn the wheels that take you places. Just so a powerful thinking machine is of little value unless its power (which is knowledge and the ability to think) can be geared up with a position that will help you along in life. There are four wTays in which a thoroughly intelligent man or woman may throw the shifting lever to mesh the gears so that his mental powers may turn the drive shaft in any situation. He learns to condense his knowledge and focus it. However he does not make it burn as do the concentrated- rays of the sun under a magnifying glass. He is able and willing to follow Priscillas advice to John Alden, He is not Speak for yourself. of the retiring type. However he does not smash forward among people with football tactics. His tactics are so tactful that many are almost glad to step aside and let him pass. When such a one has to be emphatic he takes the hurt out of his intense earnestness by his confidence-inspiring, pleasant way. Furthermore, when he is sure he is right he lets it be known in such a way that the other fellow is not made to feel small, because wrong. He has the graciousness of a diplomat, the buoyancy of a blimp. It takes these qualities, and - A SEATTLE, Wash. Eng-an- d m are busy collecting the necessary data to present to the committee) JanuarjrlO, at 2 p. m. On Tuesday evening, January at 8:30 oclock one of a series of card parties will be at the home of Mrs. Zillah Pcrkes, 1444 Logan avenue. Mrs. J. L. McGhie and DelePHOENIX, Ariz. (UNS) Mrs. J. M. Van Dorn will assist the I. 0. unions gates from 38 pro-All members and their hostess. in New Mexico, Arizona and Nefriends are invited. and families Invada set up a C. I. 0. dustrial Union Council at a convention held at Phoenix, Ariz. The Nature eventually has its way convention which was called by a despite human nature. Behind the provisional committee headed by dim unknown standeth God within James R. Lord of the International the shadow, keeping watch above Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter His own. TRI-STAT- C. I. O. E COUNCIL SET UP IN SOUTHWEST 11, C. Tri-Sta- te Workers, planned a program for Get the Boodhounds directing and coordinating activities of C. 1. 0. unions in these three An angry woman rushed into southwest states to make it a the clerks office. In her hand she stronghold for industrial union- bore a license. To the clerk she ism. said: Did you, or did you not, issue In an opening speech to the deleGlass-forBrig.-GeD. license for marrying me to Pelham this gates, chairman of Labors Albert Briggs? Yes, I believe I did. Why? League in Maricopa Well, what are you going to do county, deplored the stupidity and Hes apathy of the American Federation about it? she demanded. of Labor, and said that the C. 1. 0. escaped. n. d, Non-Partis- an loco- 2 LETTER 1 TO HENRY FORD Major changes in labor Efforts by local labor people to bring the La Iollette Civil Liberties committee into the local situation may be crowned with success, according to well informed circles here. Tired of being pushed around by strong-artactics of Beck and his numerous labor organizagoons, Chase, tions, both A. F. L. and C. I. 0., and United States, 1784. 15 First practical 1831. motive, January IN NORTHWEST GETTING EVIDENCE OF BECKISM as evidence of their charge of in had come into existence because timidation and denial of ordinary of the waning confidence in the constitutional rights. leadership of the A. F. of L. Lord, chairman of the convenin his keynote address, detion, MOVE WORKERS MINE clared that the C. I. 0. has organINTO NEW BUILDING ized more workers in two years the A. Fof L. in 50 that is than WASHINGTON (UNS) Offices its of only crime in the eyes of tories of the United Mine Workers moved (Continued on page 7) been have America, C. I. O., to the United Mine Workers Building, 15th and I streets, Northwest, TYPO AUXILIARY Washington, D. C. There will be no change in the unions, telephone number. The monthly meeting of Womans Former headquarters of tho U. Auxiliary No. 16 to Typographical M. W. A. were located in the Tower Union No. 115 will be at the home Building, 14th and K streets, N. of Mrs. J. F. Rhodes, 1322 East W., Washington. Seventeenth South street, Monday, condi-;ion- s in the big cities affect people everywhere, eventually. There are many theories concerning the proper relationship between capital and labor being suggested and ried throughout the world. Several businesses and indus-rie- s have been turned over by heir original owners to the employes. The Columbia Conserve Co. of Indianapolis is an instance Now Upton Sinclair suggests the idea to Henry Ford. In an open letter to Mr. Ford in Common Sense he writes: I believe that the desire for human welfare still animates you and on that basis I am speaking to you again. I am going to tell you how you can once more place yourself at the head of our industrial progress, and make yourself a pioneer in the building of industrial peace and security. The time has come when our system of private ownership and autocratic control of industry is breaking down. You feel that you personally have made the Ford Motor company, and that you own it, and can do with it what you please. It was so that King George III of England felt about his American colonies, and holding stubbornly to that idea, he forced a war, and lost his colonies altogether. Your workers, Mr. Ford, feel that they have had something to do with the building of the Ford plants, and the goodwill and interest of the Ford car. Their lives depend upon these things, and if they are to have no say about them, the workers remain forever serfs of industry. I entreat you to take an enlightened view of this problem, and realize that industrial change is on the march, and that it can be guided, but cannot be blocked. This is what I urge you to do. Invite your workers to select their most competent leaders in a public election. Sit down with these men and women and work out a plan to place the Ford Motor company upon a cooperative basis. Provide for a 'gradual process whereby your holdings in the company may be transferred to a corporation in which you and all other workers will each own one share and have one vote. Turn the making of Ford cars into a public service, carried on as nearly as possible at cost. Place yourself at the disposal of your workers; offer them your help, and that of your son and grandsons, in carrying on the business and making it a permanent success. 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