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Show Pge UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. DECEMBER 9, 1938 8 events have proven, if they were forced into craft unions against income. Medical care decreases the need for it increases. their economic needs and wishes. Let each organization work sharply as It is natural to infer that dein the fields best suited for it. creased death rate is accompaniW (Continued from Page 1) "Unless later developments upset the present unusual quiet, by a decrease in the amount of but it does necessarily steps to conciliate the opposition," only if he rids his administra- the days immediately following the first convention of the C. sickness, follow the decrease of sickthat I. Deal O. were happy ones, for no craft union leader appeared to tion of New Dealers, only if he agrees to amend the New ness rates is in the same ratio as blast away at John L. Lewis or at any of his associates, as was the decrease in death rates, because laws. he surif In other words, if the President is a good boy, Jthe custom previously. Perhaps it is the new order of the day, progress in medical treatment has renders to the reactionaries and if he turns the New Deal over Instead of wasting time in recriminations, let us hope the leaders so steadily advanced that certain are now curable, whereas to the Garner Democrats, may be he can avoid a Republican I have decided to use their energies for more effective purposs, diseases in times they provel fatal. earlier I such as organizing the many millions who are still outside the victory in 1940. The big job is to have the poor of our country receive the benefit unions. both of preventive and curative I "Whether be there tothe of a two merging organizations The Reactionary Legislative Program measures. this end our governmorrow next year, or five years from today, it appears that ment is To more In addition to this strategy of stampede However the Wall doing each have thcir industrial area ccar, demarcated and they ally credited to it, than is gener-as they particularly Street interests are looking for more immediate, tangible fruits couId work in jf nof in complete harmony, in their own it operates f through its Public peace, the from their "victory" at polls. back yards, without worrying about what the other was doing Health Service. On the morning after election, the financial news ticker or attempting to hamper the others efforts. Content is the philosophers carried this message to the banks and brokerage houses of Wall "To both the A.F, L and C. I. O. we say, full speed stone turns it touches into all that Street: Old Proverb. gold. "It is apparent that the Republican gains, which were made to a large extent at the expense of the New Deal liberals, will NEWS AND COMMENT is in these two countries. Seasons Greetings act two ways in the House during the next session- - in addition This is cheering news, because PEPPERS METAL & to slowing down new reform proposals, they may well place undoubtedly this steady decrease in from (Continued 7) page SUPPLY CO. conservative elements in a position to do a little legislating in- ident of the A. F. L. metal trades death rates also affects the work Buyers, Sellers, New and ers America. However, the sickof the Administration." department, as a very dangerous nessofand dependent Used Scrap rates are still far ' The meat of this message is clearly in its last clause, or and subversive character. He even too high. death On 6816 401 W. 9th So. an Was. Miss average day, has red hair. rather in its last hopeful prayer. Roche reports. 4,000,000 or more In other words, the Wall Street crowd will drag out again I The same hotel, by the way, persons in the United States are fig disabled Of course; I by illness. foist ured old and attempt to onto the country the same prominently several years ago Seasons Greetings reactionary more are ill, but they go to many in be a now can that told. It story foremost which the is mutilation of of in legislation program in August, 1396, when, work anyway. But every year 70, the Wagner Labor Act, followed by reduction in relief, by re- happened because of intense heat, the A. F. 000,000 lose more than one billion legislation, and by weakening social se- L. executive council moved to this days from work. The total cost of peal of illness and premature death Is apSASH AND DOOR curity. This time they hope to force through all or part of this hotel because it had proximately $10,000,000,000 a year. rooms. program. It happened, by accident, that a No physicians care is received in But actually, there is still considerable wishful thinking in room directly over the one in which 30 per cent of serious illness responsible quarters of the Street. For there is serious doubt the council was meeting was occu- am9ng relief families, none in 28 in these circles that even the Wagner Labor Act, which has been pied by an official of a C. I. 0. per cent of such illnesses in families just above the relief level. The Sash and Doors a Specialty the center of the reactionary attack against New Deal legisla- union, in nations capital on babies of the poor die at a rate five He soon discovered er matter. that Office and Bar Fixtures tion, can be amended to the satisfaction of Big Business at next the air vent in his room conducted times higher than the babies of the session of Congress. 2341 So. State Hy. 4496 Fifty milperfectly the conversation in the moderately relion Americans are in families They dare not ignore the fact that where the labor and room below. his Excited he told ceiving less than $1000 per year discovery, by united in vote the was the the of attack elections, progressive some friendly, newspaper men and reactionaries was overwhelmingly thrown back. they took turns standing at the air In New York, where the campaign against Senator Wagner vent SEASONS GREETINGS recording the discussion. That was almost entirely a campaign against the Wagner Act, the was how the news of the suspenJENSEN BROTHERS PACKING CO. sion of the ten C. I. 0. unions Senator was reelected by a sweeping majority. anleaked out the council before WHOLESALE MEATS AND LIVESTOCK In Utah the target of the reactionaries was Senator Elbert nounced it one of the few news Plant at 2900 South 2nd West D. Thomas, chairman of the Senate Labor Committee. But re- leaks ever to develop in the A. F. Phones: Hyland 584, Hyland 585, Hyland 1049, Murray 493 gardless of the vilifying efforts of Utahs Wall Street representa- L. high command. emThose were days extremely tives Senator Thomas was reelected by a handsome majority. barrassing for President Green, In California, where Fascist-lik- e restrictive labor legisla- who conducted conferences tion of the most vicious type was proposed to the public, these for people who press had in black and SEASONS GREETINGS repressive measures were rejected decisively through the com- white the conversation of the preCouncil members ceding hours. bined votes of A. F. L., C. I. O. and progressives generally. , . . rocmoj I wage-and-ho- UTAH ur air-cool- ed FACTORY well-to-d- o. 1 y . I council room and find papers car- ts little question that not only can the Wagner Act and other rying a full account of their discus-basi- c New Deal legislation be successfully defended in the next sion of just a few minutes before. I Congress, but the progressive movement can move on to more . TOO MANY POOR . advanced objectives. Wall g What Street was really in the Novem-- 1 ARE SICK ber election returns was certain signs of disunity among the people at large. By DR. CHARLES STELZLE The answer to this applause must be a new unity within the Executive Director, Good Neighbor League labor movement and an extension of this unity to the farmers Sickness and death rates in the and to the broad popular groups. United States are of vital interest hand-clappin- W. F. SNYDER & SONS COMPANY MINES . FELT BUILDING SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH v to the workers of America, because in normal times about 80 per cent of the poverty in this country may be charged against sickness, and death rates steadily increase as the rate of wages goes down. In the major diseases, which are the cause of three-fourtof all deaths, the death rate among workers who receive less than $1000 a year is twice that of the rest of the population. The United States Public Health Service, in charge of Miss Jose- FULL SPEED AHEAD SEASONS GREETINGS Colorado Animal -- The Brewery Worker, official organ of the International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, and Soft Drink Workers of America, an A. F. L. affiliate, in a timely editorial says: Now that the industrial unions have organized themselves a on permanent basis, there is no reason why the American Fed eration of Labor and the Congress for Industrial Organization shouldnt both prosper. There are many workers whose skill is the paramount requirement, and who feel happier in craft phine Roche of Colorado, who is faunions. To an even larger degree, there are millions of other vorably known to Labor, has just workers who would be denied the right to organize, as past issued a statement which declares Salt Lake City Ogdem Spanish Fork Co. By-Produ- cts Logan Heber City hs that death rates have reached a low of only 11.0 per 1000 of the population. 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