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Show V Page 2 UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JULY I, 1938. i? over the government of the United labor Jetos Utaf) Established 1929 A MEMBER OUR PRESIDENT . States. Never in our lifetime has such a concerted campaign of defeatism been thrown at the heads of the and conpresident and senators of this case the as in gressmen congress. Never beseventy-fift- h fore have we had bo many cop perheads and you will remember that it was the copperheads who, in the days of the war between the states, tried their best to make Lincoln and his congress give up the fight, let the nation remain ace split in two and return to peace-peat any price. Faith in People This congress has ended on the side of the people. My faith in the American people and their faith in themselves have ben justified. I congratulate the congress and the leadership thereof and I congratulate the American people on their OF THE Thia paper receives Union News Service, a Cl. 0. affiliate. -- CM $ s matter March 28, 1930, at the post office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Entered as second-clas- Subscription ............. .............. Advertising rates by request. I?. , $1.50 per annum A 'i "-'"- Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. - I. THOMPSON L M. THOMPSON M. .....Publisher Office Manager We stand for what the Constitution stands for domestic tranquility, the establishment of justice," and the promotion of the general welfare." UTAH LABOR NEWS. PRESIDENTS FIRESIDE CHAT (Continued from Page 1) er a fairer share of the national .income, to preserve our soil, to provide an granary, to indetoward tenant the farm help pendence, to find new uses for farm products, and to begin crop insurance. Labor Standards 2. After many requests on my part, the congress passed a fair labor standards act. .That act applying to products in interstate commerce ends child labor, sets a floor below wages and a ceiling over hours of labor. Except perhaps for the social security act, it is the most program for the benefit of workers ever adopted. Without question it starts us toward a better standard of living and increases purchasing power to buy the prod ucts of farm and factory. er far-sight- ed Calamity-Howler- s not let any calamity-howlin- g executive with an income of $1000 a day, who has been turning his employes over to the government relief rolls in order to preserve his companys undistributed reserves, tell you using his stockholders money to pay the postage for his personal opinions that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry. Fortunately for business as a whole, and therefore for the nation, that type of executive is a party with whom most business executives heartily disagree. 3. The congress has provided a commission to find a g path through the jungle of con tradictory theories about wise busi ness practices to find the necessary facts for any intelligent legislation on monopoly, on price-fixin- g and on the relationship between big business and little business Different from a great part of the world, we in America persist in our belief in individual enterprise and in the profit motive, but we realize we must continually seek improved practices to insure the continuance of reasonable profits, together with scientific progress, individual initiative, opportunities for the little fellow, fair prices, decent wages and continuing employment. 4. The congress has coordinated the supervision of commercial aviation and air mail by establishing a new civil aeronautics authority, and it has placed all postmasters under the civil service for the first time in our history. Housing Authority 5. The congress set up the United States housing authority to help slum clearance finance large-scal- e and provide low rent housing for the low income groups in our cities. An by improving the federal housing act, the congress made it easier Do fact-findin- New Spring Top Coats, Hats, Shoes and Furnishings are here. Come in and let us show them to you. Union Clerks to Serve You ROGENDLUMS 59 East 2nd South for private capital to build modest homes and low rental dwellings. The congress has properly 6. reduced taxes on small corporate enterprises, and has made it easier for the Reconstruction Finance corporation to make credit avail able to all business. I think the bankers of the country can fairly be expected to participate in loans where the government, through the Reconstruction Finance corporation, offers to take a fair portion of the risk. 7. The congress has provided additional funds for the works progress administration, the public works administration, the rural electrification administration, the civilian conservation corps and other agencies, in order to take care of what we hope is a temporary additional number of unemployed and to encourage production of every kind by private enterprise. All these things together I call our program for the national defense of oiy economic system. It is a program of balanced action of moving on all fronts at once in intelligent recognition that all our economic problems, of every group, of every section, are essentially , one. 8. Because of increasing armaments in other nations and an international situation which is definitely disturbing to all of us, the congress has authorized important additions to the national armed defense of our shores and our people. Peoples Victory On another important subject the net result of a struggle in the congress has been an important victory for the people of the United a lost battle which won a States war. You will remember that on February 5, 1937, 1 sent a message to the congress dealing with the real need of federal court reforms of several kinds. In one way or another, during the sessions of this congress, the ends the real objectives sought in the message, have been substantially attained. The attitude of the supreme court toward constitutional questions is entirely changed. Its recent decisions are eloquent testimony of willingness to collaborate with the two other branches of government to make democracy work. The government has been granted the right to protect its interests in litigation between private parties involving the constitutionality of federal statutes, and to appeal directly to the supreme court in all cases involving the constitutionality of federal statutes; and no single judge is any onger empowered to suspend a ederal statute on his sole judgment as to its constitutionality. Justices of the supreme court may mistakes of optimism in assuming that industry and labor would themselves make no mistakes and government made a mistake of timing in not passing a farm bill or a wage and hour bill last year. Lear From Mistakes As a result of the lessons of all these mistakes we hope that in the future private enterprise capital and labor alike will operate more intelligently together, and in greater cooperation with their own government than they have in the past. Such cooperation on the part of both of them will be very welcome to me. Certainly at this stage there should be a united stand on the part of both of them to resist wage cuts which would further reduce purchasing power. (Continued on Fage 3) 4th of July. Food Shopping Let Us Help You own staying power. One word about our economic situation. It makes no difference to me whether you call it a reces sion or a depression. In 1932 the President Roosevelt said in his total national income of all the Fireside Chat: people in the country had reached We all know that Progress may the low point of $38,000,000,000 in be blocked by outspoken reactionthat year. With each succeeding aries and also by those who say year it rose. Last year, 1937, it deYes to a progressive objective, had risen to $70,000,000,000 but who always find some reason spite definitely worse business and to oppose any specific proposal to agricultural prices in the last four gain that objective.- I call that months of. last year. This year, type of candidate a Yes, but fel- 1938, while it is too early to do low. more than give an estimate, we hope that the national income will now retire at the age of 70 after not fall below $60,000,000,000, we 10 years service; a substantial remember also that banking and number of additional judgeships business and farming are not fallhave been created in order to ex- ing apart like the one-hoshay, pedite the trial of cases; and as they did in the terrible winter of Franklin Grocery Friends of Organized Labor 802 West 2nd South Wasatch 9906 FRUITS GROCERIES Produce at the Right Price and the Right Kipd of Service - Best Wishes to Utah Labor For the 4th take along some of our products DESERET POTATO CHIP CO. ss greater flexibility has been added to the federal judicial system by allowing judges to be assigned to 1932-193- 3. 2202 So. Mistakes Were Made Last year mistakes were made by the leaders of private enterprise, by the leaders of labor and by the leaders of government all three. Last year the leaders of private enterprise pleaded for a sudden curtailment of public snending, and said they would take up the slack. But they made the mistake of increasing their inventories too fast and setting many of their prices too high for their goods to ' people. I am still convinced that the American people, since 1932, con- tinue to insist on two requisites of private enterprise, and the relationship of government to it. The first is complete honesty at the top in looking after the use of other peo-- 1 pies money, and in apportioning and paying individual and corporate taxes according to ability to pay. The second is sincere respect for the need of all at the bottom to get work and through work to get a really fair share of the good things of life, and a chance to save and rise. Party Platform After the election of 1936 I was told, and the congress was told, by an increasing number of politically and worldly wise people that I should coast along, enjoy an easy presidency for four years, and not take the Democratic platform too seriously. They told me that people were getting weary of reform through political effort and would not longer oppose that small minority which, in spite of its own disastrous leadership in 1929, is always eager to resume its control 7th East Phone Hyland 1384 NELS DUBBELD, Prop. congested districts. Devotion to Liberalism Another indirect accomplishment of this congress has been its response to the devotion of the American people to a course of sane consistent liberalism. The congress has understood that under modern conditions government has a continuing responsibility to meet continuing problems, and that government cannot take a holiday of a year, a month, or even a day just because a few people are tired sell. or frightened by the inescapable Some labor leaders goaded by in modern world of decades this which of oppression of labor pace we live. made the mistake of going too , Some of my opponents and some ar. They were not wise in using of my associates have considered methods which frightened many that I have a mistakenly sentimenpeople. They asked tal judgment as to the tenacity of employers not only to bargain purpose and the general level of with them but to put up with intelligence of the American iurisdictional disputes at the same well-wishi- 7 Friend of Labor 7 Best Wishes to Labor, For PERMANENT PROTECTION Hy. 2509 Hy. 6521-1148 So. 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