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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD I Rebuilding Rural America As National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart Washington, D, National Press Building- The senate has Washington. again indulgeJ In Its favorite pastime of straining Wagner Bill at the gnats and swallowing the Dangerous camels. Its latest camel that was swallowed at one gulp and with the same ease as the man on the flying trapeze was passage of the Wagner labor disputes bill. The consensus seems to be that reformers In the senate reached the highwater mark when they capitulated to the labor lobby and put further Insurmountable difficulties In the way of recovery for business. Of course, the Wagner bill still must run the gauntlet of house passage. It appears, however, that the labor lobby will drive It through there substantially In Its present form unless smaller communities In (he United States awaken to the dangers of such legislation. The probabilities are that house members will not hear from home In time to Influence their votes and prevent passage of the legislation. The bill, drafted by the German-bor- n Senator Wagner (Dem., N. Y.) creates a national lubor relations hoard. This body will have almost Judicial powers In settling labor disputes and In connection with ttiose powers the board can actually say to an employer of workers that he must not promote an organization among them other than of the type of their own choosing. In other words, a labor agitator representing the American Federation of I.abor will be permitted to enter anybodys shop and organize the workers and the employer will be powerless to prevent It If, however, he sought to have his workers organize themselves Into a union not affiliated with organized labor, the proposed labor relations board enn order It stopped. Actually, and there seems to be little dispute of this potentiality In the legislation, It Is designed to establish the American Federation of Labor In this country as a class strong enongh to control the management of commerce and Industry, Although the senate action In passage of the bill was overwhelming, It was not accomplished until the Democratic Senator Tydlngs of Maryland shouted over the din the warning that the measure would ruin chances of business recovery. The Maryland senator sought to amend the bill with a provision prohibiting coercion and Intimidation of employees by anyone whatsoever." Then Senator Tydlngs told the senate: If you do not accept this amendment, talk of freedom for labor Is a farce." d i The Wagner bill Is an outgrowth of attempts to develop through the national Industrial Claws for recovery act a pol- Blue Eagle I 7 compelling employers to bargain collectively with their employees. was That Is, the fumed section Intended to make It Impossible for employers to enter Into an agreement with their employees except by dealing with a committee selected by a majority of the workers. It was the assumption when this provision was written two years ago that the American Federation of Labor would have a majority In all of the Important Industries. It developed, however, that company unions, not affiliated with any other organization, constituted a majority In scores of factories and plants. Thus, the A. F. of L. encouutered an unexpected obstacle. Now Senator Wagner, whose rnd-letendencies are well known, has attempted to give the I'.luo Eagle some claws by enactment of the labor disputes bill and the creation of a separate labor relations board. The measure as It passed the senate makes It unfair for employers to do any of the following things: 1. To Interfere with, or to coerce employees, In the exercise of collective bargaining through representatives of their own choosing. 2. To dominate or to Interfere with the forumtton or administration of any labor organization or to contribute financially or aid In the support of It. 3. To encourage or discourage membership In any labor organization by discrimination, 4. To discriminate against any employee for tiling charges or giving testimony under the proposed act. 0. To refuse to bargain collectively with representatives of their em7-- ployees. No prohibition against labor agitators are to he found in the legislation. From all of the debate and comndttee hearings which I have examined. It appeared that business Interests were lighting the legislation not only because of the handicaps It places upon them but as much for the reason that It represents an entering wedge for labor agitators In all commercial lines. Th ere seems to he no doubt that when an employer Is prohibited from driving labor agitators away, lie Is handicapped In attempting to in detain Industrial peace with Ids C. workers cn whatever terms they deem proper. own If the legislation creating the labor relations board is bad for big I employers of its Small bor, It seems to be worse In the smaller communities where employers of a small number of workers constitute the majority of Industrial lines. I mean by that, there Is usually more skilled labor available In larger Industrial communities than In small towns or rural areas. That being true, the employer In a larger community has an opportunity to replace workers who are dissatisfied or who have yielded to the Influence of labor agitators, whereas the small town employer of labor cannot always replace workers who would rather be Idle than accept terms which paid labor leaders tell the workers are not proper. Further, the legislation will put organized labor deeper Into politics than It has ever been. It will make elections depend largely Instead of just partially on the attitude of a congressman or a senator toward labor questions. In addition, the discussion I hear Indicates definite fear on the part of some political leaders that the paid organizers in labor circles will themselves become political as well as economic dictators. la-I- It begins to appear that the farmers' march on Washington may bring a flareback on Ugly Rumor the administration. oppoCertainly, Spreads nents of the administration are not going to let President Roosevelt, Secretary Wallace, and Agricultural Administrator Davis forget very soon their feeling that the march was not of the spontaneous sort. No sooner had the farmers arrived here than an ugly rumor was spread around that the visit of the forty-fiv- e hundred was financed by the Agricultural Adjustment The rumor spread so fast that It broke out In senate and house debate and demands were made for an Investigation. In fact, a resolution to that effect was Introduced In the senate. The Department of Agriculture and the Adjustment administration paid no attention to the rumor until the resoi'U ion was offered on the floor of the senate, whereupon a vigorous denial was forthcoming from Mr. Davis He said that the farmers had e pressed the desire to come to Washington as a demonstration of their approval of AAA policies and f eddy stated that his organization vns happy to see such an endorse lent On (lie other hand, observers and writers in Washington noted that the fanners were equipped with highly d eeuratlve badges; they were provided with a meeting place, a great auditorium which rents for considerable money, and when they went to the White House the President spoke from a prepared speech. They stopped at good hotels and the majority of them had traveled to Washington in pullman sleeping cars. I do not assume that it Is of world wide Importance what the total cost wa3. I am reporting only the reaction which Washington had. Thus It can be mentioned that all of the badges worn by the delegates AAA and bore the large letters the names of the respective states represented. The ball, as I have said, rents for a substantial amount and the hotel bills are never small. Railroad fare from distant points costs enough that the depression conditions have cut down passenger traffic and the march on Washington was concluded with a banquet So, naturally, those who were curious concerning the expenses of the trip freely stated that there are at least four thousand, five hundred farmers In the country who are not as destitute as professional friends of agriculture have been claiming. admln-lstmtlo- n. Secretory Hull of the Department of State Is being heaped with praises these days on his Praise for Hull diplomatic accom- pllshments and Is receiving at the same time vigorous criticism on the basis of results thus far accomplished on his reciprocal tariff pol- icies. With regard to the secretary's diplomacy, I believe it can be said be has established better relations with South America than any secretary of state in recent years. Al regards the reciprocal tariff policy which Air. Hull fostered, the country Is witnessing a sharp exodus of dollar capital Into new Investments In lines made profitable by tariff changes complete or pending. The Information I gather respecting the reciprocal tariff policies Indicates, however, that the movement of capital Into South American Investments results partially from Agricultural Adjustment administration activities. Western Newspaper Uutom- - HERES AMERICAN OF THE FUTURE Depicted by Prominent Anthropologist. Those of us who might he Interested in sciences quest to determine the exact nature of the typical American so far as his physical makeup is concerned, probably will find some small comfort in the theory of Professor Albert K. Jenks, a noted anthropologist of the University of Minnesota. The gist of Professor Jenks opinion is that whatever the number of conflicting conceptions might exist at the moment as to the physical Identity of the American, the time Is not too far distant when he will have a definite and recognizable racial classification. The typical American, according to Professor Jenks, will not be a tall blond person, as some might have supposed. He will be only fairly tall, dark eyed, nnd darker skinned than the present average. This, he asserts, will be the ultimate outcome of the interbreeding among the early and late arrivals on this continent. Upon the whole, If Professor Jenks theory is well founded, the atypical American will not be an unattractive person, assuming of course, that he incorporates a . portion of the better physical qualities of each of the racial strain., that make him. Mans concern over the question of what he is, as well as what he does, Is not motivated solely by considerations of vanity. Curiosity also plays its part In seeking the Hellene of the classicist and the Roman of the Etruscan line he finds them not In the Greek and Italian of today. He becomes giddy, striving to follow the ancient medley of races that swarmed and Intermingled on the Spanish peninsula. In striving to trace his family lineage he Is dismayed by the multitude of his own ancestors, enough to populate a small city within a surprisingly few generations. In any event, and whatever we of America might eventually become, there is comfort in the thought that we shall be a definite something. Since we are a nation, there Is little reason why we should not also be a race; and it must be acknowledged that there Is some excellent material here. XIanchester (N. II.) dark-haire- . - - to Right, Henry Ford, M. L. Wilson Above, Drouth Leads to Cattle Slaughter In the West. Below, Left and Rexford Guy Tugwell. of farm lands and necessary equips ment by farmers, farm tenants, By WILLIAM C. UTLEY day Is fast cro-per- MOVING hundreds of of America's most destitute farmers since President Roosevelt declared his Intention of rebuilding rural America-- and movfamilies into ing poverty-strickenew homes where they may have a considerably better chance to make a living and find happiness. The moving bills will be paid out of Mr. Roosevels $1,SSO,000,000 work relief allotment, and the boss foreman of the movers will be Rexford Guy Tugwell, under secretary of agriculture and pride of Columbia university, who thinks he can lift pianos easier than can lift mortgages. For the eight main types of relief work to he done there are some CO federal departments and divisions already existing to administer the funds and three entirely new divisions are being created. The one which deals with the retracing of the agricultural map of the United States under Tugwell Is the The rural resettlement division. recent exodus of 200 farm families of the North Central states to Alaska, there to begin life anew with the slate wiped clean, was only a curtainraiser to the main bout agalnt rural poverty and privation which Mr. Tugwell and I1I3 forces will conduct. Single farm families who have conducted something of an isolated battle against overbearing odds of depression, drouth and poor land, will be moved Into new and better lands and given a fresh start at Doctor TtigweHs discretion. By the same token, whole area groups of farm families who have collectively and In many cases literally bitten the dust will be gathered Into Doctor Tugwell's moving van and rolled away to new homes where the land and the life will give them something more closely resembling an even break. Tale and underweight communities, suffering from economic pip In their Industrial sections, may be moved to where change of climate and a few honest dollars will revive them; If they cant he moved, new and healthy Industrial sections will be grafted (no double meaning Intended perish the thought!) Into them. Break for Slum Dwellers. Citizens who have found the going a little too tough in the slum sections of the larger cities will be moved 20 or "0 miles out In the send rural territories, suburban, given small plots of land on which to raise three squares a day and found factory Jobs where the hours are short and the remuneration adequate. Officially known as the Resettlement administration, Doctor division has been allotted $10,000,000 by the President for administrative expenses. What further funds are necessary for ench authorized project will be allotted at a later date. President Roosevelt himself outlined the purposes of the resettlement by dividing them Into three brackets; First: To administer approved project Involving resettlement of destitute or families from rural and urban areas. Including the establishment, maintenance and operation. In such connection, of communities in rural and suburban areas. Second: To Initiate and administer a program of approved projects with respect to soil erosion, stream pollution, soaoonst erosion, reforestation, forestation and flood control. Third: To make loans as authorized under the emergency relief appropriation net of 1933 to finance, In whole or In part, the purchase n Tug-well- e 's or farm laborers. In carrying out these threefold purposes, Mr. Tugwell was authorized by President Roosevelt to acquire' In the name of the United States government any real property which he deems necessary. In Resettlement administration Incorporated the entire per- sonnel and funds of the land program of the Federal Emergency Relief administration. This land program has already been extended Into 23 of the states and Includes In Its operations the movement of farmers and their families In the the XIatanuska valley of Alaska. Never Before Tried. No projects such as these have been carried out by any other nations, according to XI. L. Wilson, assistant secretary of agriculture. This only nation-widplanning with the conscious Idea of removing land too poor to farm from cultivation Is being done la the United e States, he asserted. Commenting on the resettlement program, he said that there are approximately half a million farm families who are unable to produce anything to be exchanged. Their homes, which often average three persons to a room, are on the poorest grade of submarginal land. The land must be shifted to better uses. It has been tradition In this country to get land Into ownership, but the land on which families are falling because of Its r poorness Is partly timber land, areas In the seml-arlplains, land whose surface soli has been washed away by erosion, etc. It Is largely land which Is not adapted to private ownership. It is breaking Its private owners. The thing to do is to bring It back into the hands of the government. The solution Is the gradual transfer of people on It to what we have been calling l ' communities. Assistant Secretary Wilson estimated that three-fiftof the people on this hind of land have some idea In mind concerning what they would like to do about it and have a little money with which they might carry out their plans. The s other will require assistcut-ove- d two-fifth- ance from the Resettlement administration. Some families will be moved to better land, Mr. Wilson explained. Then well try to get an Industry located thereabouts. The people who have been relocated will find employment and will earn The government will sell wages. them land and houses. We can let them put their common labor In on the building of the houses. Farmers have their option. They make their own decisions whether to stay or go. New Kind of Community. Xlr. Wilson even went so far as to say that there must be a great deal of shifting of population to maintain the democracy, adding that considerable economic planning would be required. He said that a new kind of community, the like of which this nation has not had. will be created. They will furnish a life akin to that of Europea a villages where they raise their own food and work for wages," he declared. It Is a new type of Industrial setup. In which Industry to quite an extent Is decentralized." Mr. Wilson said that the economic system was developing more leisure time, and that some constructive ue of It must be devised or we will degenerate. About 73,000,000 ncres of poor land were recommended for retirement by the national resources board last winter. The Inhabitants of this land were said to be "characterized by incredibly low standards of living. Resettlement Is hardly .the answer to the nations farm problem, In the opinion of the 130 delegates to the conference of agriculture, industry and science, which met at Dearborn, Xlich., to honor Henry Ford for Ills contributions to farming and to sign a declaration of dependence upon the soil." Principal speaker In the conclave In the town that Ilenry Ford built was Louis J. Tabor, master of the National Grange, who urged farmers to grow every plant and every product that can he grown In the United States. He said, The American farmer hopes this conference will set In motion Influences that will do more for rural life than the politician has ever been able to accomplish." chem-urgic- d Union. Weeks Supply 0f p o Lead the oiler sluF: Company . 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An What the conference, sponsored D.s In France during the war, and with by Chemical Foundation, suggested from 1019 to 1931 did valuable work Onr lobby Is delightfully Ifc i was as the remedy wa9, of course, for the League of Nations. She has mantto cooled daring the summer ming chemurgic" farming. This would been fired at by Chinese bandits, estor Every Room Radio t fact shorten the distance between pro- caped unscratehed from a serious 2 00 Rooms 200 Baths duction and consumption by hav- motor accident In France, lectured be infnri more once two the difassume farmer In a months ing every night for more of the elemental services and ferent town In the United States, stifled the; processes, and claims that chemistry and one of her hobbles Is sailing soard will drive man back to the farm, small boats. Just as the machine age took him ting is hi from It. Chemurgic" farmers will bend much of their efforts to raising nm, a farm products for purposes other Mt 41 Inf ( than food. Farm production would HOTEL need to be doubled If agricultural st ove alcohol replaced petrol as a motor wile Manufactured by baking fuel, the conference concluded, and obvio It would open up a new farm In.ineei powder Specialists who Rates SI. SO to S3.00 come of $3,000,000,000 a year. It make nothing but bakTh. Hotel Temple Square was said that no unsolved technical grin desirable, tnradlj' . powder highly problems stood In the way, "alof k phere.You will alwsysfm of comfortable, s supervision expert though Important improvements In thorouKhfy chemists. e"boj Z processes can confidently be exfore understand why had :o m w S rff -he Temple Square under ing e pected. It was only a few days later when 4,000 farmers, mostly from the South, marched (for the larger part In railroad trains and automobiles) In a pilgrimage to Washington, to express their thanks person ally to the President and the AAA for what the administration Is trying to do for them. Thinking they smelled a rat, opponents of the New Deal, on the floor of the senate and elsewhere, openly charged that the marchers were by the AAA officials for a stunt to arouse public sympathy for the program, and that the farmers traveling expenses paid by the government. At any rate the 4,000 farmers cheered the President wildly when he denounced to them the "liars who criticized the operations of the AAA. They expressed themselves to a man as being henrtllv In favor of the proposed AAA amendments, some of which even propose to make It necessary for every manufacturer, wholesaler an retailer of food products to obtain a license from the Department of Agriculture. Such amendments would put In the hands of that department the prescribing of rules governing business practices, ad vertlsing and the general regulation of the manufacturers and merchants business. They aim at con trol of every step In the process 0f distribution of food, Including the advertising under Tugwell, who has declared advertising to be economic waste. There are 110, noo food manufacturers, 02,300 wholesale and 011,000 retail dealers In food products who, no matter how small and Insignia' cant they might he, would he t to penalties of from $30 $00 a day for violation of any mis made by the Department of AgrL culture. C Westitra Newspaper Vnloa, You can also j engi f appreciate why i tosM ItS a mark of distinction at this beautiful hostelry mm', and ROSSITEiU'g' this i bot 10 801 hellei me 'o Same price today os 44 years ago 25 lor 25c ietiPACK FULL hand-picke- sub-Jic- HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ALWAYS was if, w rnumnl Opportiinily ,or. 0( 0wn and women to build P dime for details snd p'mtirMOMf' askt -- NO SLACK FILLING IIB AGENCY. wa; ' Oes If nW NOBODY'S m si vrKH isir !l If you want to get 5. Informti hours weekly nt homtrM n,piilii hUtVKK AGENCY. 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