| OCR Text |
Show President Green Tells Views Of Organized Labor SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 28 (U.K) Fundamental problems of la- ' bor and hopes and aspirations of J that class were told by William j Green, veteran president of the I American Federation of Labor, tr . several Salt Lake audiences. '. Green upheld the theory of "th. t right to work' He said if he had 1 participated in the Declaration of Independence, he would have insisted in-sisted that the right to work clause be inserted. The fight to remonetize and restore re-store silver, the labor executive said, had aroused sympathetic interest in-terest of the federation and would be carefully considered by the federation fed-eration executive committee at its January meeting. He spoke of a plan advanced by A. A. Young, Salt Lake miner, whereby war debts and the interest thereon would be paid in silver. Green pointed out there was no longer any problem of production in this country. Machines , have solved that. Today it is a problem of consumption, and to achieve maximum consumption, employment employ-ment is imperative. Thus, he argued, ar-gued, if employment were restored, buying power would iitcrea.se and the wheels of progress would turn once again. |
