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Show Review ofi Current Events ' t r- EDUCATE ORGANIZE HEJEOriES PAPER r COOPERATE VOL VIII; SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JANUARY 14 NO. 28 LABORS LEAGUE NON-PARTISA- N Non-Partisa- as important as the one held in tion of President Roosevelt. In 1930. .This year the state house of Utah the League headquarters had representatives and of the over 15,000 signed pledges for the state senate, one U. S. senator and support of the League aims. two representatives in congress one-ha- lf will be elected. Important Election Therefore, it is on The 1938 election will be equally (Continued Fage 3) President Roosevelts Talk at Jackson Feast No Compromise In Fight On Special Privilege Overwhelming Majority Can anid Will Eliminate Evils and Abuses Fight Today Is For the Maintenance of the Integrity of the Morals of Democracy This Administration Seeks to Serve the Needs, And to Make Effective the Will of the Majority. , . President Roosevelt in his Jack son day dinner address in Washington Saturday night served notice that there will be no compromise in his fight against abuses by a minority of big business men, This bankers and industrialists. minority is seeking autocratic control over the countrys economy. The Presidents address follows in full: When speaking before a party gathering in these modern times, I am happy to realize that the is not confined to active members of my own party, and that there is less of unthinking partisanship in this country today than at any time since the administration of President Washington. In the last campaign a charming lady wrote me as follows: I believe in you and in what you are trying to do for the nation. I do wish I could vote for you but you see my parents were Republicans and I was brought up as a Republican and so I have to vote for your opponent. Voted for Teddy My reply to her ran as follows: My father and grandfather were Democrats and I was brought up as a Democrat, but in 1904, when I cast my first vote for a president, I voted for the Republican candidate, Theodore Roosevelt, because I thought he was a better Democrat than the Democratic candidate. I have told that story many times, and if I had to do it over again I would not alter that vote. Conditions and parties change with every generation. Nevertheless, I cannot help but feel pride in the fact that the Democratic party, as it exists today, is a national party reflecting the essential unity of the whole country. As we move forward under our present momentum, it is not only necessary, but it is right, that the party slough off any remains of sectionalism and class consciousness. Party progress cannot stop just because some public officials and private groups fail Their to move with the times. the be filled will by places amplv rising generation. Nature abhors a vacuum. Battled for Democracy In these recent years the average American . seldom thinks of Jefferson and Lincoln as Democrats or of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt as Republicans but labels each one of them according to his attitude toward the fundamental problems that confronted him when he was active in the affairs of government; These men stand out because of the constructive battles they waged, not merely battles against things temporarily evil, but battles for things permanently good battles for the basic morals of (Continued on Page 2) au-dien- ce Per Copy By M. I. T. n "Everything is in readiness for the Labors League conference Sunday," said Frank Bonacci state chair man of the League, this week. "I look for a splendid delegation with every section of the state represented." The conference will convene at 2 p. m. Sunday, at the Trade Union League halls, 168 South West Temple street. The League did splendid work during the 1936 campaign when its program was the reelec 5 Cents 3J News and Comment The Political Arm of Progressives Prices BULLIONS NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS John L. Lewis showed the new brand of labor statesmanship when he called on all C. I. 0. unions to assist their unemployed members; as short a time as six months ago it appeared as if the labor movement had forgotten the unemploy ment existed. First to respond to the Lewis plea were the United Rubber Workers. Steel, where the C. I. O. began, has been hardest workers, hit, with a quarter-millio- n most of them new union workers, laid off or on part time. With union dues there and elsewhere cut away down, the C. I. O. drive has been slowed, though far from halted. Ford remains the chief present target of the C. I. 0. The United Automobile Workers met their first test of strength with Ford in Kansas City, with the whole legal machinery of the city assisting Ford, and arresting hundreds of pickets on the ground that there was no strike. Labors concern over unemployment is increased by new labor-savin- g developments. The steel industry is installing the new semiautomatic continuous strip machinery so rapidly, that thousands now being laid off will never get back their jobs. . . . So far purchasing power has held up, for most people have a small amount of money saved; but this may mean the slump has only begun. COMMON SENSE. AMERICA MUST CHOOSE i ON SPYING RACKET i nericas meanest business the spy racket was spon the tune of many millions of dollars by 2500 American f business accordbig corporations during the years 1933-193ing to a comprehensive report submitted by the Senate Committee on Education and Labor. The Utah Labor News has received a copy of this report through the good offices of Senator Elbert D. Thomas of Utah, chairman of the committee. "The list of these firms as a whole reads like a bluebook of American industry," the report declares. "The names and distribution of these firms conclusively demonstrates the tenacious hold which the spying habit has on American business. From motion picture producers to steel makers, from hookless fasteners to automobiles, from small units to giant enterprises scarcely an industry that is not fully represented in the accompanying list of clients of the detective agencies," it continues. General Motors alone spent almost 1 0 million dollars of its stock holders money between January 1934, and July 1936 for espionage, the records show. The companys spy system reached the comic opera stage, however, when Pinkerton men were, hired to check up on Corporation Auxiliary Co. spies who had been previously hired and who were suspected of betraying industrial secrets to other companies. Pinkerton, largest of the five big agencies examined by the Senate committee, has offices in 27 cities and in 1935 enjoyed a gross income of over $2,000,000. Of this income, "between 8, (Continued on Page 8) Labor on Its Forward March; C. I. O. Is Active Refusal..oLtbe , American Federation of Labor represenWill America join . with other nations in 'a collective action to tatives to agree to proposals of the Committee for Industrial Orpacify aggressorations or will we ganization for bringing the four million C. I. O. members into (Continued on page 7) between of the led. to the the negotiations federation, collapse the two organizations. , "We have offered the A. F. L. our entire membership," said Philip Murray, chairman of the C. I. O. negotiating committee. "They have refused our offer. The onus for the deadlock must be placed on the representatives of the A. F. L. "When they can make an offer to protect the interests of labor and to promote genuine labor unity, we will be pleased to sit down with them again and go into the matter. "In the meanwhile the conferences are adjourned sine die." Murray declared that the C. I. O. will now concentrate on consolidating the strength of its unions and will consider calling The Nightshirt Menace The nightshirt is an ancient and a national convention, as authorizrather drafty institution. It cov ed at its Atlantic City conference. We will also promote the estabers a mans nakedness, and that is about all that can be said for it. lishment of industrial Union CounIt is neither decorative nor digni cils in cities and states throughout fied. Those who wear it prefer not the nation, he said. to be seen in it. The pajama-cla- d C. I. O. Leaders Meet Presidents of all the national pass it in scorn. But still the nightshirt persists. and international unions of the C. and bandy-leg- I. O. met in Washington on the It conceals knock-knee- s It is kind to shrunken shanks day the conferences collapsed. s. and poorly placed protrusions. They discussed in detail the nego- After all, a man is entitled to keep tiations which had been under way to himself the mysteries of his own for two months and agreed unani anatomy. It is only when the nightshirt enters the stage of public exhibitionism that the world has a right to protest. The horse and buggy are all right for those who cling to ancient ways until the buggy gets to the head of some one-lan- e auto traffic. the Similarly, nightshirt may have been good enough for your father and our grandfather before him; but it is something less than good enough when you go around terrifying the neighbors in it, and insisting that they conform to your grandfathers ideas. So Secretary Ickes said a mouthful recently when he contended that where once liberty in the United States was menaced by men in nightshirts, now liberty in the world is menaced by nations in nightshirts. Money Needled to Fight Infantile Paralysis Scourge If you want to know how bitterly money is needed for the fight on infantile paralysis, take a map of the United States, a bunch of black headed pins, and a small tube of white paint. Stick a black headed pin in each of states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Mississippi, South Dakota, Notth Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. In these 11 states, there is no orthopedic hospital. Now take your tube of paint and put a little white streak across the heads of 7 pins. Stick one of these in each of the following states: North Carolina, South Carolina, Freys Arkansas, Iowa, Montana, Utah Choice and Oregon. These are the states Mr. John P. Frey is reliably re- which have one orthopedic hospital ported to be one of those who pre- each. fer the nightshirt to Hospitals Totally Inadequate the modem pajama. Well, that is Now, take pencil and p&d and his privilege, and every liberty-lovin- g World Almanac, and do a little American will defend to the looking up and figuring. 'You will death his right to enjoy it. find: Mr. Frey is also said to prefer That there are 776,000 square miles in the states which have no (Continued on Page 4) . ed 1 1 orthopedic hospital, no up to date facilities for treating infantile paralysis. This, roughly, is 6 times the size of Italy and 3Vz times the size of France. That the states with one orthopedic hospital each contain 531,000 the square miles. Divide by 7 number of states and you get an average of one place to handle infantile paralysis in each 76,000 square miles; which is about seven-eigh- ts of the size of Great Britain. . Recovery Long Process Does it need anything more to make you see that the United States as a whole, is terribly short of places to treat infantile paraly- sis? (Continued on Page 5) |