Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-09 | Page 6 | Prevailing Opinions

Prevailing Opinions I Comment of th the tha American Press Organizing Farm Labor It is to the farmers farmers' interest to the workers' workers Interest and to the Interest of ot s society Clety In gene general al that the farm labor problem m be solved and solved on right principles These workers have been the thereal thereal thereal real forgotten men women and children as s they moved in their rattletrap trap jitney caravans from front one section to another an At times some employers have taken advantage advantage advantage ad ad- vantage of them but they have been chiefly exploited by false lead leaders n. n First the I. I W W. V. W. appeared on on the scene professing to take up their cause for them But the I I. I W. W W. W was not interested in improving improving im ira- proving their economic condition The organization atio sought to use them for the industrial revolution Following the I. I V. W. W. W the communist communist com corn agitators have come in again gain to exploit these workers worker for subversive ends There is an obvious way to bring and end to the agitation of at which the tho growers rightly complain Itis It ItIs Itis is to remove the conditions that give the agitators the b basis is of ot their power and influence It is isto isto isto to provide sanitary living condi condl fleas It Is to recognize fundamental fundamental fundamental funda funda- mental human and economic rights It is to recognize a mutuality of at industrial interest I Mr Casey representing the th-o American Federation of ot Labor undertook k the task of bringing the growers and pickers together on the basis of ot collective bar bar- gaining At t first th the gr growers w rs were were suspicious auspicious But last year they a agreed eed to arbitration and since then there has been little culty The farmers learned that the American Federation of ot Labor stands stand for tor the pr present sent economic order and social system I Its Interest in Jn interest In- In terest Is not to make mako trouble for tor ulterior subversive ends but to bargain within the system for wages and working conditions With cooperation with sane leadership tho the aim of of which Is economic and not revolutionary the producers producer ought to be able to work out the admittedly dull cult farm labor problem In addition addition addition addi addi- tion to the advantage of orderly harvesting they y will be contributing ing to cure a festering spot of social and political discontent It is not agitation but conditions that b breed r roe 0 e d communism San Francisco Chronicle The Bible in China American and other foreign Bible societies distributed more that copies of ot the Scriptures Scriptures Scrip Scrip- tures in China last year The total circulation of Bibles in the land of at C Confucius In the years since the publication of the first Chinese New Testament is said said ald now to exceed copies And yet there are reported to tobe tobe tobe be less leu than Catholics and less than Protestant Christians among among Chinas China's people Obviously the number of at Bibles In circulation is no better index of the number of ot Christians in China than in some other coun coun- tries The story is told that a a. good many years ago a great demand developed for the free copies of the Scriptures that were being handed out in Canton An Inquisitive in inquisitive In- In missionary looked into the tho matter malter and found that the Chinese were converting the paper In the Bibles into soles for native nativo shoes Whether or not that is a libel on the Chinese Chinen China has hILS produced produced pro pro- many able and devout Christian leaders eader And if It has Its quota of oC rice Christians those Christians those who join the church for what they can get out of it it what Christian country Is entirely free treo of pillars of ot the church was spend the week fleecing fleecing fleecing ing widows and orphans and use we their church membership as a cloak to conceal their iniquity from the public eye Detroit 7 Free Press Preas Were We're Coming to lo If It One of ot these days a a. wise vise national national national na na- na- na committee will call in a smart stage director from HollyWood HollyWood HollyWood Holly- Holly Wood or Brooklyn and say to him Were Vere to nominate going Smith for president and Jones for vice president and we want you to run our national convention Heres Here's Heresa a check your pay in advance Fix up a good show Make it modem modern modern mod mod- em ern good and snappy Keep in mind it'll be broadcast Hell He'll fix up a show hand the scenario to the dele delegates ates so they'll know what its it's all aU about assign the roles and pass pau out the lines to tho actors One of ot the first things he will do will be to pick the best lookIng looking look look- ing lag chorines grown grow in America The star of the lot will be se selected selected selected se- se to wave a flag at the right time And shell she'll wear a Florida bathing suit Were We're coming to It fast San San Francisco News New