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Show Eeriiew vir Eemitto o2 Cuairereinit ( ; .f VV4a EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE Price: 1 no id m nno SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. FEBRUARY 7. VOL X: NO. 33 m L Make Utah Prosperous Keep Coal Mines Active-Min- ers Steadily Employed Dollars spent for Utah coal is the greatest circulating me dium and business builder in Utah, according to speakers in fa vor of H. B. 45 at a hearing held Tuesday night. The bill proposes an excise tax of four cents per 1000 cubic feet of natural gas sold in the state. According to statistics every year for the past 20 years, the miners of Utah coal have received in wages six and a half million dollars. This money has been poured into the economic channels of the state through the purchase of commodities thrifty, industrious citizens need. Others serve the coal mining dis These dollars have purchased in the warehouses Irict through homes and automobiles, insurance . and amusements, in addition to the ordinary necessities of daily life. Railroad Workers One of the largest items of railroad tonnage is coal. The wages paid railroad labor for the transportation of Utah coal is nearly two and a half million dollars ev cry year. These railroad workers spend their pay checks in Utah cities for the goods sold in Utah stores, and for the commodities manufactured in Utah factories. Utah firms receive orders for over a million dollars worth of mine supplies every year from Utah coal mines., Steel rails, trolley wire, ties, props, hose, cables, oil, grease, electric power and ex "piosIve powder are aTI "ptitcMsed in tremendous quantities. This figure does not include the enormous ' amounts spent every year for mining machinery and new construction. Schools and Government The Utah coal industry is among the largest taxpayers in the state. Taxes and royalty paid by the coal companies of Utah amount to over two million dollars a year. This figure includes only the taxes paid by the coal mines. It does not include the taxes paid by the miners on their homes and personal prop- Salt Lake City, Ogclen and Provo. Thus the wages of the coal min ers flow back through the. regular channels of trade into the economic system of the state. The proponents of the natural gas tax say that the coal industry pays in wages to miners and railroad workers in the state of Utah 3,275,074. (Continued on page 3) SORRy PAL ITS AGIN THE LAW BETWEEN THE LINES By CECIL OWEN Publicity Director, Labor's By UARDA McCARTY Non-Partisa- session of the The twenty-thir- d Utah state legislature passed the half-wamark last week with practically all of the more important measures proposed by the lawmak favorers still awaiting action able or unfavorable. ' Senate and house journals the daily records of legislative activi ties showed on Saturday night that 70 bills out of the more than 460 had been acted upon. Five of these have become laws through joint approval of both legislative branches and Governor Henry II. Blood. Nine have been killed and 15 withdrawn. Twenty-fiv- e senate and house approved measures are ready for gubernatorial consideration, this number having been passed by both legislative branches in addition to the five already approved by the chief executive. Awaiting action on them by the lower house are 15 passed by the senate. The upper house has nine house-passemeas ures awaiting consideration. Three measures are on the house table, probably to remain there in status d quo. Per Copy 71 NOTES FROM THE STATE LEGISLATURE y 5 Cents n League. WASHINGTON "The type of appeal that has beeh made on the Republican side of the House for the passage of this resolution is illustrative of the things that I fear, a concerted attempt to identify every clean, decent American progressive movement in defense of the common people of this country with communism." Thus Congressman Voorhis of California, in a one-haminute analysis which electrified the House of Representatives, laid bare the motives which prompted those who are supporting the Dies Committees activities. Among the 344 members of the House who voted with the majority there were many whose ideas coincided with those of Representative Voorhis. But the Rules Committee reported out the resolution to lf continue the Dies Committee in such a way as to make action on the merits of the Committees work impossible. They either had to vote for approval of the Committees existence or register themselves as being opposed to any investigation of subversive activities. With Nazi and Fascist movements in this country reDortedly on the increase, the members of the House had no alternative but to vote as thev did. They all were for an investigation of subversive movements. They were in favor of ferreting out the enemies of our democracy. And there was no other-way before them ter accomplish these ends but to vote to continue the Dies Committee. Admits Past Error Congressman Cox of the Rules Committee had admitted the past errors of the Dies Committee, and promised that it would not hereafter be so unfair. But it 'became apparent almost at once that this promise would be honored more in the breach than in the performance. Dies himself, in closing the debate, actually claimed that those who at-- : tacked his demagogic and unfair methods were being unfair to him! So the coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats worked with precision. The great demagogue Dies, a Texas Democrat, was paid signal honor as a Republican spokesman when the Republican side of the House stood up as one man in tribute at the conclusion of his speech. As a matter of fact they gave him three minutes of their own time so he could more amply smear the Roosevelt Administration. One reasonable explanation of. Dies attack on the Administration emerged during the debate. A Re- None of the five bills signed by the governor and now on the Utah Smoke O. P, state statutes may be said to be WASHINGTON major import to the people as a Other Peoples. It of cigarettes. whole unless it be H. B. 11. This saves time and money especially publics 'spokes aiato money. Ihe end of this racket is 7 shall included of merchandise be of the bag when he said it was up of the Compiled Section in defining cost as used in the claimed Dies would be a candidate Statutes, passed twenty years ago It for the Presidency In 1940. This and recently brought to public at- state fair trade practices act. on to be affect may paid prices Republican heartily endorsed Dies tention by the Legislature deals a various merchandise. of items and apparently saw no candidacy, death blow to the Nebraska chapter B. S. reason the 15, the Texas Tweedle-de- e governor, signed by why of the clan. It provides a fine of the American for shouldnt use House funds and flying one hundred to two hundred dol- provides school over House buildings during authority as a springboard lars, or two months in jail, for any flag naschool and and state on hours which to jump for the Presifrom person who gives away cigars, to- tional holidays. dency. bacco, cigarettes or digarette maPlumbing Law terial to any one, without first obNews Between Lines Bills by both legislalicense. approved taining a Sometimes there is news be- tive houses and now awaiting action by Governor Blood include: S. (Continued on page 4) WOOL HEARINGS B. 32, bringing all small loan agencommerce and the National Associes under supervision of the state erty. SOON WILL BEGIN D. R. T. the received All the royalty ciation of Manufacturers. by banking department; H. B. 44, exNo true friend of labor will state of Utah from the mining of to of plumbers tending registration WASHINGTON Hearings on entire state; H. B. 12, assuring to amend out of existence coal is placed in the state school seek labelling every school district of at least one fund. Every school district in the the Schwartz-Marti- n the Wagner Act. state receives support from this bill will get under way in the Sen- normal scholarship every three CLEVELAND (UNS) The ate on February 20, before the Sen- years; H. B, 14, fund. county Brotherhood of Railroad permitting of Committee on Trainmen, A. F. L. LEADERS AID ate Food and Clothing mutual insurance companies to ex the of brotherwould bill railroad The Commerce. largest Carbon Interstate The retail trade in tend their operations in additions hoods, is to which and all TORIES OPEN WAR of opposed coal any require labelling garments secon- fields; H. B. 31, enabling second county, the center of Utahs amendments to the Wagner Labor ON LABOR ACT would disclose the presence of third and first class cities to abate Relations mining industry, amounts to five d-hand President A. F. wool (shoddy) in fabrics. Act, and a half million dollars a year. H. B. 25, requirobjects; unsightly disdeclared will this legislation This trade is directly dependent on Passage of WASHINGTON (UNS) that traveling farm machinery Whitney made here. Opening how and to close the state. public when, public a letter to ing fire on the Wagner Labor Act Whitney the wholesale houses of the be cleaned of noxious weed seeds Many of the wholesalers have es- much wool they are getting in the etc. before being moved from weed Edward F. McGrady, in which he leaders of the American Federation tablished branch houses in Price. fabrics they purchase. infested areas; S. B. 5, fixing fees stated: of Labor stepped in where the NaIn the Wall Street Journal of tional Association for justices of the peace in crimof Manufacturinal cases; H. B. 39, changing the January 20, 1939, you are quoted ers and the Chamber of Commerce the feared to tread, offering a list of opening date of the deer hunting as having told the members ofConseason tor the third Saturday in Oc Bond Club of New York that nine amendments which would rob tober; H. B. 50, 55 and 56, includ gress will give serious considera- labor of many of its gains during ing auto and aircraft entry for tion to the proposals of the Ameri- the last three years. The A. F. L. leaders1 nine sugpurpose of stealing in first, second can Federation of Labor for amendand third degree burglary classes, ment of the Wagner Act, because gested amendments introduced H. B. 1 5 was revived Wednesday when a motion by Rep and S. B. 45 to 52 inclusive, simpli they have been joined by all into the Senate by Senator David the railroad brotherhoods in this I. Walsh of Massachusetts would procedures. resentative Sorenson of Salt Lake to reconsider the temperance fying courtMeasures drive to change the act. Killed make possible a rapid growth in measure carried and the bill took its place on the calendar. vIt Measures killed include: S. B. 40, For your information, the Broth- company unionism, by tying the was thought the measure was killed Tuesday when the House allocating 85 per cent of revenues erhood of Railroad Trainmen op- hands of the National Labor Relatax on gas used poses any and all amendments to tions Board. adopted an unfavorable report of judiciary committee by a vote derived fromtothecities in aviation The amendments, if accepted, owning and the National Labor Relations Act, of 36 to 20. where it is because, the law as it now stands, would make almost mandatory the the airports operating of The bill is sponsored by Representatives Frank Bonacci sold, and 15 per cent to the state is a good piece of legislation. designation of craft union units in The current efforts to .correct Labor Board cases, dealing a seCarbon and Tom Dix of Salt Lake. It is considered as a tem- aeronautical commission; H. B. 51, of the vere blow to industrial unionism. refunding tax on gasoline used in the alleged perance measure by the supporters of the bill. nor less more than law are and Meanwhile President Whitney of nothing The judiciary committees unfavorable report Tuesday tractors, stationary engines, to emasculate the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainpurattempts for other nontranportation brought Representative P. S. Marthakis of Salt Lake to his feet poses; S. B. 25, bringing employes the provisions which guarantee men placed his organization of several hundred thousand members to remark that the practice of reporting bills out unfavorably of the state and its political subdi- genuine collective bargaining. will relations labor in the of house under Stability can visions squarely on record to protect the provisions was a vicious and undemocratic one. Although the cease come industrialists when B. S. relations labor state Wagner Act from reactionary law; debate the merits of a bill in discussing the report, it does not onto their unions raids. company state foisting 2, department have an opportunity to amend the bill if the report is adopted, of setting up Chairman J. Warren Madden of H. B. 26, placing the employes and ' stop the vicious justice; labor of he asserted. , spys. the under the hiring NLRB, in a radio debate with state chemist department practice labor Let them that Charles Hook of the NaPresident H. B. recognize the of made 33, Bonacci making principal arguments agriculture; Representative to has a bargain collectively tional Association of Manufacturtreasurers certificates of nght against the committee report sund in favor of the bill. He said county fair for wages and working con- ers, pointed to the fact that the Act sales redemptions conclusive the bill was a temperanec measure and calls for a local option tax ditions in of evidence facie organizations of labors and the Board had strengthened instead of prima and allocation of a share of the liquor profits to cities and such redemptions; S. B. 23, requir--( own choosing, just as the employ- democracy' and extended industrial ers act through their chambers of peace. Continued on page 2) 28-10- 23 3 of w-o- ol Support Wagner Labor Act . sub-committ- Temperance Measure Revived Placed On House Calendar one-sidedne- left-hand- , ed ss xt . |