Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-21 | Page 6 | Out of the Dungeon

F. F 1 0 Out U t 0 of f th the e D' D Dungeon t. t HERE are limi limits to how f far r government V THERE X should go in the persecution of business That limit has just about been reached in inthe the senate civil liberties committees committee's castigation of f i. i the National Association of Manufacturers because because be- be cause cause it has spent mor mow money rec recently for public education propaganda the committee ommittee i called it than it did before 1933 It has only been since 1933 that manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers industrialists and business men in general geni gen- gen eral ceral have realized they had neglected in their i i activity activity in making and selling goods the important important im- im matter of selling themselves to the f public v c i Since t then n. n business lc leaders ders of th the na nation r n J I i u A through the National Association of Manufacturers Manufacturers Manufacturers have spent considerable effort and money to sell their side of ot the story to the public and rebuild the good will and support which they had lost Just what there is reprehensible about that its it's hard to understand Opponents of business have freely carried on their campaigns without without without with with- out protest from any agency of government Again the civil liberties committee upbraided upbraided up up upbraided braided the N. N A. A M. M because they charged it had attempted to 10 influence political elections with its activities and expenditure of money Its It's odd but in the next column to the article about the N. N A. A M. M was a story in which the treasurer of the Democratic national committee revealed that John L. L Lewis' Lewis United Mine MineWorkers MineWorkers' MineWorkers MineWorkers' MineWorkers MineWorkers' Workers' Workers union had put up to influence the political elections of 1936 No doubt the civil liberties committee th thought that was perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- all ail right There is reason to believe that this this' matter of business persecution has gone so far that the public is beginning to think that maybe business is the abused underdog d of the bullying mastiff S The excessive persecution coupled with just such campaigns of education and solicitation of good will as the toe one being made by the National Association of Manufacturers is bringing bringing bring bring- ing business out of the dungeon of popular disfavor dis dis- dis- dis favor favor chastened chastened somewhat by the experience but ready again to serve the nation if given that chance by a friendly public