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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY: UTAH, FEBRUARY 4, 1938 Page 8 Editorial IPage (Continued from Page 1) should not be any reason why humanity should be compelled to . According to statistics we have, the United states govern ment and its subdivisions states, counties and municipalites of dollars to enforce the spent in 1937 more than fifteen billions law against criminals. The way to reduce crime is to give emanc ployment at a saving wage to all those who are physically mentally able to work. Fifteen billions of dollars is a lot of money. Much of this could be used for more worth-whil- e purposes if men and women had decent jobs and wages in keeping with living conditions. Idleness breeds crime. Here is an example of the thou sands we could cite: John Henry Seadland, alias Peter Anders, confessed kid his nap slayer of Charles S. Ross and killer of J. Atwood Gray, confederate in the crime was a source of constant worry to his family, and especially his mother. the mother sob I dont think Ill ever sleep same again, bed. Her face lined with worry, her eyes bloodshot, when she learned it was her boy" that captured in Los Angeles a fortnight ago. The mothers story: "When his father died five years ago, she said, John mintried to find work in the iron mines at the Crosby-Ironto- n had him nothing for they ing district in Minnesota. They told him. He was desperate and sat around home and fidgeted for two whole years. It was enough to make anyone restless. He got into bad company when he was idle. Thus, you see, John was a victim of circumstances resulting from our haphazard economic system. Thousands of other sons and daughters of other mothers have been victims of these same circumstances. The time has come to remedy this serious situation. The law would be a step in the right direction and wages-Hour- s would eliminate much of the crime condition now existing. It is up to decent members of our society to act, and act NOW, to bring pressure to bear upon congress to pass the Wages-Hour- s law. G-m- ILiatoojr News presented and pushed with all the vigor that an administration under the necessity of recapturing lost The Brewery Workers Journal says: prestige can muster. New Deals Program The C. I. O. attackers remind us a good bit of Japans The legislative outlines, thereattitude towards China. China can have peace tomorrow, or at of the congressional session fore, any subsequent time it wants to, the Japanese war lords say. All are fairly clear. They consist of she has to do is turn over the country to Japan like a good passage of the bill with the farm bill, should. (together neighbor which in the last stages is I. already thoseA. the O. F. who C. in and The L., speak for it, of in the last stages passage) also say that peace can be established at once if the C. I. O. actration with its habiliments of solicepts the A. F. L. terms. What will happen to the industrial darity, and to enable a showing at unions after that, need cause no worry as the A. F. L. will take the 1038 election that the Democrats are capable of carrying out care of them later. And Howl campaign pledges. What is less clear is the fate of New Deal liberalism in the face of the onslaught of those who lost the PEACE IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT 1936 election. As the congressional session opened, the President By DR. CHARLES STELZLE and the Administration were on Executive Director, Good Neighbor League the defensive. Monopolistic price advances far in excess of wage level-headeIt is an amazing fact that some otherwise lead- raises cut down purchasing power d and up stocks in warehouses ers in the American labor movement seem to ignore the lessons and piled on merchants shelves. , Anof history, with regard to the destructive effects of internal con- ticipating price rises, purchasers of flict among nations, political parties, churches, business, fam- heavy industrial goods laid in an ilies and all other institutions. They pretend to believe that the advance supply of stocks such as and similar commodities. labor movement' is free from the inexorable laws which affect steel Topping that was the growing reevery other form of life or else they are simply engaged in a fusal of capital to invest in productive enterprise unless assured game of poker. If so, its too great a gamble. a profit. There is one other possibility namely, they are sure that of The threw thouthe principles for which they stand are so right and fair, that sands ofcombination men out of work, led to a they are willing to go down fighting. Ordinarily, this is a demand for lowered wages, and high motive which should be encouraged and commended. But made it appear as if the New Deal if such action results in pulling down the entire structure, de- was responsible for it all. That the business recession was stroying what has been built up at great sacrifice by others, intensified for political reasons equally sincere, but who may not be in entire agreement with seemed fairly obvious. Anaconda these champions of a cause, then it would appear that there Copper laid off 6000 men because should be a compromise which will save the entire labor move- - they didnt know what the President was going to do. ment. The threat of combined farmer A leading statesman jokingly said some time ago that if I and worker action on the political ac af a brake on any a President of the United States were to form a cabinet compos- to drift the ed exclusively of labor leaders, they would all want to be secreright. It must be remembered the threat is counthat tary of war. This was not to the discredit of the men who teracted by the exceedingly vocal stand at the front of the labor movement, because, obviously, and powerful losers of 1936. It they are engaged in a great fight. But there are times when the would seem that the best means of labor movement needs great statesmen as well as great generals. bringing victory would be the conversion of the threat into reality. And this is one of those times. LIKE JAP ATTITUDE TOWARD CHINA ITOCSBAl' live in poverty. Tlhe Ufcalh ft en WE SEE IN THE PAPERS We have noted that the Salt Lake City daily papers have become publicity representatives for the houses of ill fame. They have published the street addresses and otherwise given the madames publicity that no money could buy. It does not make very wholesome reading for the boy scouts, knighthood of youth, and other youngsters. It would be far better to use the valuable space for a campaign of education for the eradication of the causes that produce these evils in our economic and social system. wages-and-hou- rs - , The leaders who are charged with the task of bringing peace within the American labor movement have repeatedly ended equally bitter controversies with employers. But they rarely obtained all that they fought for, because labor conflicts are never settled they are compromised. It is a question whether they can now demonstrate their ability to restore peace in their own ranks. But peace within the labor, movement is not a thing that obtained mechanically like digging for gold. It will be can not be secured merely through the adoption of resolutions for ON GUARD these may be capable of various interpretations. . Peace will now come only through the exercise of friendship and forgiveand tolerance, goodwill and courage. And A timely and vigorous protest by Chairman John L. Lewis ness, of the C. I. O. against the order removing unemployed from hese are the elements which have hitherto built up the labor WPA payrolls as soon as they become eligible under the un- movement in this country. employment compensation laws, has been effective in securing administrator feature, more than postponement of application of this order until benefits actual- CONGRESS else, that turned the tide anything ly begin to be paid. n ON the bill. Had the THE SPOT against The C. I. O. pointed out that persons thus removed from board, with adequate representathe relief rolls would undergo severe hardships during the waittion for the south, been retained (Continued from Page 7) the administrating agency (as as ing period before unemployment compensation was paid. for was that bill, it in the senate version), upon provided It would have meant in many cases, Lewis declared, that issue that the House revolted and the bill would have passed despite persons who desperately need funds they receive from WPA it was that issue that the President the opposition of the American employment will be without any income at all for a large por- chose to throw back at congress in Federation of Labor executive tion of the three to six weeks of the waiting period for unem- lis opening message. council, it is contended. The Thus it seems clear that new Dissolving Donkey ployment benefits. vote legislation to be the of .Analysis There is still need for continued protest against what Chairwill be along session which the House at the end of presented this man Lewis calls "a further step toward pauperization of our )y of bill lines the the ;he special session returned the already passed n people in this new unemployment crisis, since compensation measure to the by the senate, providing for a in the majority of cases will be less than the already inadequate louse Labor committee, reveals agency independent of departlow completely sectional lines have ments, rather than along the lines wages the jobless receive from WPA. rent the Democratic party. Of 80 of the defeated bill in the house. But the results already obtained, following the C. I. O. prorepresentatives from the old south, At the opening of the session plans test, indicate the invaluable service which an alert and modern ;hose states which have always regarding the measure were vague, labor movement like the C. I. O. ren'ders not only to the mem- been Democratic and maintained but the Presidents message left no bers of its affiliated unions but in general interests of all work- the Democratic party through the doubt that such legislation will be lean years, only eight voted for the ing people. measure. Of 108 Democrats from Unlike the narrower craft movements that have preceded southern states including Texas, it, the C. I. O. does not consider its obligations at an end when only 15 had enough courage to it has served the sectional interests of certain groups of workers vote against recommital of the bill. The chief pretexts for the votes still employed and paying dues. the bill were that it was It considers itself equally responsible for the protection of against that its parentage its members when they become unemployed; and in a larger was dubious, that the feature made it dictasense, it accepts the responsibility of representing the interests labor is against and that torial, of all working people in the councils of the nation. it. A couple of years ago, American labor as a whole had only Labor lobbyists who worked for the services in Washington of a set-ud quarrelling the passage of the measure are and quibbling over sectional interests, and letting the general convinced that it was the single- interests of labor go by the board. But today, in the C. I. 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