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Show Review o (Current Events iST uacx cirr ' EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE iC.T LAKE CITY. UTAH, JULY 29. 1938 Price: Ler Utah Meets In S. L. City Saturday 5 Cents Per Copy ;inrMAi!j Non-Partis- an Annual Gathering Will Be Called to Order at 10 a. m. By Chairman Bonacci Will Elect Officer and Consider League Program Rally At Murray City Park at Night Will Be SENATOR THOMAS IIAS Addressed By Several Speakers. FILED FOR REELECTION -- United States Senator Elbert D are chairman, vice chairman, sec retary, treasurer, and members of Thomas has filed his petition of nomination with the secretary of the executive committee. The annual meeting of the Labors' League of Union Trade at convene Utah will West 168 South Temple halls, street, Saturday, July 30, 10 a. m. State Chairman Frank Bonacci of Helper will preside over morning and afternoon sessions. State Senator E. M. Royle, chairman of Salt Lake county organization of the League, will deliver the principal address during the morning session. The speaker for the afternoon is Val H. Cowles, editor of the Price Appointment of the convention committees will be made during the forenoon. Among these will be the resolutions and platform, rules and order of business, and credentials and organization committees. Officers reports will be made during the morning session. To Elect Officers During the afternoon session the various committees will make their reports, and the officers for the ensuing year will be elected. Among the officers to be elected Non-Partis- an Sun-Advoca- To Meet In Murray The convention will adjourn in the afternoon to meet at 9 oclock at night in the Murray City park for an open air meeting to be ad- dressed by several prominent speakers. To the meeting at Murray the public is invited. WYOMING NON-PARTISA- N LEAGUE REELECTS JOHN te. M. ROSS CHAIRMAN Wyoming labors League held a convention in Cheyenne July 15. CHEYENNE, Wyo. Non-Partis- an John state. It is expected he will ha've no opposition in the Democratic primaries. Senator Thomas has gained prominence during his first term in the Senate. He is chairman of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, and a member of the Mines and Mining, Foreign Rela tions, and Military Affairs and Pensions committees. He is also a vice chairman of the Senate Civil Liberties committee. He acted as chairman of the joint house and senat-- conference committee during consideration of the wages and hours bill, and piloted it successfully through over the opposition of southern members of congress. Upon the passage of the and hours bill Senator wages Thomas received personal congratulations from President Roosevelt The measure was among the New 3 M. Ross, chairman, presided over the convention sessions and explained the procedure that was carried out during the last campaign. Harry W. Fox, executive secre-of tary, made an extensive report Deal must bills. the League activities. Senator Thomas is held in high on page 2) (Continued esteem by the people of Utah. In fact, he is the only real representative of the masses of the people of this state ever to go to the Unit ed States Senate from Utah. By CHARLES MICHELSON FILE PETITION FOR Director of Publicity, Democratic National Committee . NOMINATION OF There is information of great interest to the country in a statement issued by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau July 2 and generally buried in the financial sections of metropolitan newspapers. He reported on the operations of the Federal Government for the fiscal year ended June 30. Revenue receipts of six and billion dollars were the largest for any year in the countrys history, with the sole, exception of 1929, which included huge sums derived from assets. Total receipts of six and liquidating war-tim- e billions were almost exactly three times those of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1933, and more than three times those of the fiscal year 1932. Income taxes alone brought in 2635 millions, a greater amount than in any year since 1921. That was before the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover administrations had time to start their wholesale refunds of corporation taxes. Expenditures, acording to the Treasury's books were 300 millions less than for 1937. Omitting the various revolving funds from which recoverable loans are made, the actual expenditures for 1938 were reduced from those of 1937 by more than 700 million dollars. The Treasurys books show a net deficit for the fiscal year of 1459 million dollars, but included in the expenditures are ( I ) 169 millions on account of loans that are to be repaid; (2) 460 millions for such permanent assets as public buildings, 1848 millions highways, flood control and reclamation, and for additional mostly works undertaken public one-quart- er one-quart- non-Feder- al er () to furnish employment. Altogether the expenditures which represent investment, either in physical plant or recoverable assets, but not including added assets for national defense, exceeded the deficit on the Treasurys books by more than one billion dollars. Not only is the deficit the smallest in seven years, but in a true sense there was no deficit at all. CONGRESSMAN ROBINSON - The Treasurys books btc kept urrar'C aslrr ec eip ts and fex followed not1" ''the' same'procfedure.' Naturally the '"'Presidentsrtrip basis. If they were kept as a corporation keeps its penditures A petition by Utah county voters across the country and the speech We need go no further back than es he has made, and is to make have the episode of Calvil Coolidges designating Congressman J. W. (Continued on j?age 4) been the source of a lot of news sending Lodge and the rest of the Robinson of Provo as a candidate Old Guard to the rear at the to succeed himself was filed Tuespaper comment. Cleveland convention. We might day in the office of the secretary the Just as naturally hi3 attributed have go back to the other Roosevelt, of state. papers DISPELLING THE FOG -- -- -- ' WHY? on The 115 petition contained favorable mention of certain candi- and note his cheerfully voiced atnames. A. the was and Among signers dates, particularly for the Senate, tacks on Fo raker, Platt Democratic kind Utah be 0. a would Ellett, resentment It county to personal strange against those who opposed particular poli- of a President, indeed, who did not chairman. It was with astonishment the folks throughout Utah read in cies of the administration and his wish for the success of those who Congressman Robinson is a New desire to punish those who opposed tried to aid him in what he was Dealer and is completing his third the daily newspapers a story saying that 1 2 members, including these policies. doing and prefer them to those term as a member of the national Paul M. Peterson, of thd Utah State Federation of Labor execuThe reactionary press, and the who persistently throw obstabics house of representatives from the tive council had adopted a resolution opposing municipal power district, Congressional reactionary spokesmen generally, in his way. It is a strange habit Second plants. consists which the Salt of Lake, Utah, speak of the process of a purge, of thought to assume that Especially was this act of the state federation officials a borrowing the phrase used to indi- President of the United States In-is Davis and Tooele counties. cate the ghastly doings in Russia the only person debarred from particular surprise to members of all organized labor. and in Germany by which these terest in the nominees of his own ANNOUNCED LEGISLATURE The state federation as well as A. F. L. have been on CANDIDATES totalitarian governments rid them- party. record for many years in favor of municipally-owne- d power selves of rebellious leaders. They Inevitably, his enemies hail the plants. Deal candidate New of eliminaa invented candian even the week have several victory During The Declaration of Principles to the Constitution of the tion commission, which is sup- as evidence of some nefarious in- dates seeking nomination for legposed to be going around and or- terference by the President, and islature have announced. It is ex- Utah State Federation of Labor, paragraph 12, reads: atpected that there will be a rush of ganizing the campaigns against just as inevitably they will anti-NeThat all public utilities be owned and controlled by state anti-Ne- w Deal Senators. Never in tribute the election of an filings during the next 10 days. and municipalities, respectively. Dealer to a party revolution August 13 is the deadline for filany of these attacks is there any In the face of this constitutional provision a question admission of the possibility that against the President. The first of ing. John Hansen, a Salt Lake City arises as to what right have elected officials of the federation to the President, conducting the bat- these incidents was the renominatle between the forces of liberalism tion of Senator Pepper of Florida. businessman and president of the discard a Declaration of Principles that has been placed in the and the forces of reaction, may be They tried to make an example of Sagebursh Democratic club, is Constitution a by majority of the representatives of thet federactuated by a simple purpose of the second course suggested, in the seeking nomination for state senGiaffiliates! Conation Iowa primary, where Senator ate. having elected or returned to J. W. Thornton of Provo is gress people friendly to his poli- llette prevailed over Representative According to the laws of the federation it takes a majority cies rather than those who have in- Wearin, although in Iowa the- only among those seeking Democratic vote of duly elected delegates in convention assembled to redicated hostility toward the legis- thing they could adduce to indicate nomination for state senator from peal, amend or enact any laws or declaration of principles. lation he deems necessary for the the Presidential preference was to Utah county. The federation convention meets third Monday in Septemof that the country. welfare Mrs. Frank Page Stewart is cite the circumstance Harry bom and went seeking renomination on the Dem-t- o ber. Why then the rush of 12 men Jn the Presidents fireside talk, Hopkins, who-wschool there, said that if he vot- - i ocratic ticket for state senator to declare something that is the of profit which is the motivating made just before he started on his business of the convention to do ? influence in privately owned power journey, he made his position per- ed in" Iowa he would vote for the from Salt Lake. both not Do It looks like a complete sell plants. Before they receive govsaid: He clear. member of Miss Thelma Garff, fectly Representative. Incidentally, misunderstand me. I certainly candidates proclaimed their loyalty the house last session, seeks re- out, a member of the A. F. L. re- ernment funds municipal authoriwould not indicate a preference in to the Roosevelt policies and the nomination subject to the will of marked. ties must comply with the AdminAnother said that it was no won- istrations power policy, which, aca state primary merely because a record of their votes in Congress the Democratic voters in Tenth candidate, otherwise liberal in out- for and against New Deal meas- Legislative district of Salt Lake der there is so little respect for cording to Mr. Ickes, means that the state federation when its elect- before municipalities set up their look, had conscientiously differed ures was just about even. In Ken- City. from me on any single issue. And tucky, the President did anything Charles C. Gardner of Bountiful ed officers discard its laws and. publicly owned power plants they he added: We all know that but disguise the circumstance that is a candidate for the state house principles for their own personal must make reasonable efforts in progress may be blocked by out- he favored Barkley, the Majority of representatives on the Demo- opinions and gains. good faith to purchase upon reaIt looks like a nigger in the sonable terms and conditions the spoken reactionaries and also by Leader in the Senate, over Chan- cratic ticket from Davis county. those who say yes to a progres- dler, the Governor of Kentucky. woodpile. privately owned plants with which sive objective, but who always find Was anybody surprised at this? SEEK SALT LAKE the public plants would necessarily some reason to oppose any specific Was anybody in doubt, even be- COUNTY OFFICES PUBLIC OWNERSHIP compete if the two systems operated in the same territory. proposal to gain that objective. I fore the President made his speech OF POWER PLANTS call that type of candidate a Yes, at Covington, where the PresiThe additional announcement by W. J. Korth has filed for renombut fellow. dents sympathies lay ? American Federation of Labor Mr. Ickes that he will have full disination as county clerk in the DemLocal Conditions Govern Past Presidential Preference ocratic primaries. He says he will Weekly News Service of July 23, cretionary authority in determining whether a fair purchase offer has At this writing, Indiana is run on his past record. The Presidents manifestation of says: horizon on the been made is a guarantee that the Wallace announced for E. The has Harold allocation of $9,527,995 political approval of particular candidates higher up is gravely criticized by the Repub- than any other state because Sena- himself as candidate for reelection 21 public light and power plants by owners of private light and power lican and affiliated organs of pub- tor Van Nuys, after being repudi- as Salt Lake county attorney. He Public Works Administrator Har- plants will receive a just price old L. Ickes will undoubtedly stim- from the municipalities for all licity as something unprecented in ated by the local State Democratic will seek Democratic nomination. B. Commissioner American history, whereas there organization, has been invited back James ulate the tendency of municipali- plants acquired. Of course officers County think I dont fold. into to produce light and power for of companies who deliberately in- the Mullins has renomination is been for ties never Presia seeking probably on page 2) their citizens without the element dent of the United States who has (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 3) De-pe- w - as . any-continu- ed |