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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FEBRUARY 24, 1939 Page 2 ia tafj Ha&or Established 1929 . A MEMBER OF THE This paper receives Union News Service, a C.I.O. affiliate. 0-- 4 matter March 28, 1930, at the post office Entered aa second-clas- s at Salt Lake City, Utah, undpr the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription . $1.50 Advertising rates by per annum Published weekly at 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. I. THOMPSON U M. THOMPSON 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. house and senate bills introduced. Of this number only 67 had been acted upon passed by both houses, killed, withdrawn or vetoed by Governor Henry H. Blood up to Sat(Continued from page 1) An additional nine had night. urday The lower house continued to been signed by the governor, leavsound an economy note when it re- ing 529 measures still in the legisfused to approve proposed salary lative hopper. increases for three state officials. A total of 34 bills are now awaitIt did, however, grant lesser raises ing the approval or disapproval of to two. Governor Blood. Eleven have been The house of representatives killed by house or senatorial acemphatically rejected the proposa tion. Another 21 have been withto liberalize state liquor laws by drawn, either entirely or because permitting the sale by drink of some other bill has been substituted hard liquors or even light wines. or its provisions carried out in anThe legislators showed plainly that other. sentiment is decidedly against any Bills Passed further liberalizing and that unless The senate has passed 12 bills there are drastic changes in presen- which are yet to be acted upon in t-day attitudes, the present law the lower house. will remain in status quo for some have passed a like Representatives number which time to come. are now in the senate for action. Governor Blood has vetoed one bill, Encourage Exemption The homestead exemption move- fixing fees for justices of the peace ment was encourage by house ac- for services in criminal cases. tion making the exemption bill and Three bills are on the house table. four allied revenue measures a The senate last week passed a special order of business for Fri- bill providing for the revocation of day, Allied measures which exemp- a drivers license and registration tion supporters figure will com- of any motorist who fails to satispensate for loss of tax revenues if fy a judgment returned as damhomesteads up to $2000 in value ages for personal injury or propare not taxed include a bill trans- erty destruction. The bill further ferring occupation tax revenues to provides that to regain the right the state high school fund, another to operate a motor vehicle the dediverting $700,000 a year in liquor linquent one must either settle the sales profits to the same fund, an- judgment in full or make satisother raising the mine occupation arrangements to pay it in tax from one to two per cent on factory installments and give proof of fugross proceeds in excess of $100,-00- 0 ture financial responsibility in the and a fourth increasing income form of an insurance policy, real taxes and lowering exemptions. estate bond, or securities posted In the senate a bill to exempt with the state. home furnishings up to $300 in The senate affected a value from taxation was advanced mise on the distribution comproof the to third reading without a dissent- aeronautic gasoline tax fund of ing vote. This is taken to mean nearly $50,000 passing a bill final adoption of the measure in allocating 75 perbycent of the revthe upper house. enue to the airports where the fuel Clash Over Bills was purchased and 25 per cent to Two measures having to do with the state aeronautics fund for use financing municipally owned utili- as the aeronautics commission ties brought dashes in the senate deems best. last week. Supporters of S. B. 107 A major portion of the approxideclared that H. B. 59 was written mately 540 bills yet to be acted by promoters of municipal power upon are now in the hands of senplants, while those favoring the ate and house committees latter charged that S. B. 107 was a excepting those sifting on house or senate calendars and those as yet unprivate power company measure. The forty-firday of the current reported by committees to which session closed Saturday with 605 they were referred. NOTES FROM THE LEGISLATURE . st I Welcome, Ladies Auxiliaries WATCH YOUR SPRING LEGISLATORS Is Just Around the Corner Now is the time to let Bryce Millinery make over your last year's hat into the newest Spring style. ALSO ORDERS TAKEN ON NEW HATS See to it that the members of your legislature give thorough consideration to measures demanded by the people. It will be interesting to note what the sifting committees of the senate and the house do. Will these committees practice gag rule in smothering bills that should be considered by all the members of the legislature ? From a democratic standpoint it Bryce Millinery Co. 48 So. State Next to Telephone Co. . BEST WISHES Utah Lime & Stone Co. Dolomite and High Calcium Lime. Lump and Hydrated Flux Rock. Crushed Rock, Etc. 401 New Phone No. Dooly Bldg. S It will make interesting reading especially during the 1940 political campaign. request. Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. M. a very rude and autocratic prac- tice for any committee to report bills out unfavorably. If the committee report is adopted it will block the consideration of meritorious amendments to the measures and means their death. The Utah Labor News is compiling the voting records of the members of both houses and these records will be given wide publicity so that the voters in Utah shall know how their legislators behaved. Was. 1435 HOUSE SIFTING COMMITEE IS PACKED of Looking over the personnel the 17 members of the House sifting committee one is ready to agree with Representative Frank Bonacci .of Carbon county that the committee is packed against progressive and labor measures. Labor was given a raw deal by Speaker Bennion in choosing this committee. Not a laborite is on the committee. although there are nine in the House out of its membership of 60. On a basis of fairness, labor should have at least two of its members on the sifting committee. We do not look for this session of the Legislature to pass much of anything in the line' of worthwhile legislation. The session, no doubt, will go down in history as one of those do nothing legislatures that we used to have back in the reactionary . Tory days. la-bori- tes SHADOW OF REES IN LEGISLATURE A bill that smacks of the shadow of the activities of former, almost forgotten, A. C. Rees of the associated industries fame, made its appearance in the lower house of It Utah Legislature last week. was introduced by Representative Charles R. Hunter, Republican, of Iron county. The bill is numbered H. B. 267. In section 1 of the proposed measIn a growing numure it says: ber of instances . . . professional organizers of workers and promoters of workers' organizations have adopted, or caused to be adopted, practices of coercion and intimidation directed against both employes and employers, with such effect that employes and employers have been deprived of actual liberty of contract, and employes have been deprived of the right freely to decide whether or not to associate themselves , with such organizations. The bill would prohibit and stay-i- n strikes, limit and picketing prevent certain abuses, practices and acts occuring in connection with labor disputes and other industrial controversies. The peculiar tiling in connection with the bill is that its sponsor comes from a county where there are no labor unions. And, perhaps, the sponsor of the measure has had very little, if anything, to do with organized labor in his whole lifetime. The bill has all the earmarks of Open shop employers, and should be given the name of imported open shop employers bill. It has not a ghost of a chance for pas- sage, but evidently was introduced for the purpose of muddling an already sadly muddled legislative calendar. The bill would outlaw the closed sit-do- and forbids sympathetic of strikes, provides for recognition com- and unions provides company dispulsory mediation of labor for putes, and in general provides to all the things that lie closest the hearts of our leading labor-hatinindustrialists. open-shoIt would be hard to believe that In this civilized. age any body would pass any bill such as proposed by the gentleman from Iron county. One legislator aptly remarked in the lobby that such a bill would hog-ti- e every legitimate labor union in Utah. It does show, however, that organized labor must sleep with one eye, and not less than two ears atopen. This will not be the last that tempt to sabotage legislation the workers of the state need for their protection. , In the event the bill reaches the voting stage it will be interesting to make a note of its supporters in black capital letters so that the workers of the state may know just who is who in Utah politics. shop g, p, law-maki- ng Thelma Garff, Hinckley, Ingleby, Jack, Jacob, Jenkinson, Jensen, Macfarlane, Nielsen, Lindsey, Thomas M. Rees, Reid, Herbert E. Smith, Thorne 24. Bench, Hunter, Republicans Johnson, Larsen, Lund, Miller, Redd, Joseph E. Rees, Willard R. Smith, Staples, Twitchell 11. ' . Against: Democrats Atwood, Allen, Liston, Christensen, Darymple, Mason, Pace, Pectol, Pett, Pond, Sanders, Selvin, Sorenson, Strong, Wood and Bennion 16. Republicans Chamberlain, Curry, McShane 3. t Absent Boyden, Clyde. Dix, Marthakis, Maw, Thomas, all Democrats except Representative Thomas. GOVERNOR BLOOD APPROVES NEW PLUMBERS LAW Monday afternoon Governor Henry H. Blood signed H. B. 44, sponsored by Representative Victor WOULD CRIPPLE G. Pett of Juab, and others. The POLITICAL new law provides that plumbers of Utah cities over 800 population MACHINES must obtain licenses from the State Department of Registration if they wouldpractice their trade after By a vote of 35 to 19 the House Mav 1939. 8, passed Monday H. B. 28 by RepreThe present plumbers registrasentative Val Cowles of Carbon law tion only to cities of applies no county. The bill provides that second and class, covering first public officer or public employe on Page 5) (Continued elected or appointed through political channels whose salary from said position is in excess of $1000 TUFFY-ROS- IE per annum shall be a member of the state or county committee of any Was. 9565 502 So. State. political organization in the state. This bill is not motivated by Largest Glass of Union-Mad- e Represenpartisanship interests, Beer in Town for 10c tative Cowles said in his opening statement. The situation that now Delicious Sandwiches only 5c exists in the control of the dominant party could exist elsewhere Chicken SandMondays and in other parties. between 11:30 wiches served We need its passage to have 2 5c and oclock, representative government as far as the people are concerned. Acme, Walters, Beckers and The opposition to the bill came Uintah Club Beers Served from Representative William D. Wood of Weber, W. Douglas Allen and W. Frank Liston of Salt Lake, Wayne N. Mason of Box Elder and Sol J. Selvin of Tooele. Call Us Now Before the Rush Those who voted for the bill Begins Hy. 7535 were: Democrats Adams, Bonacci, BLOOMQUIST Brewster, Bryan, Cowles, Davis, G. Garff, Elswood, Foote, Royal Decorating Co, Where Art and Value Hand Alcthlisn Successfully Treated in Hand Lead at the Intermountain Sanitarium, 1149 E. 6th So. The Intermountain Phone Hy. 4676 J. E. MARTINSON, Mgr. Empire Friend of Labor 47 E. 17th So. 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