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Show GRONNING TALKS " AT LADIES' TEA State Senator Carlyle F. Gronning of Milford, Democratic Demo-cratic candidate for Representative Represent-ative in Congress from Utah's First District, addressed a group of Emery County Democratic women Wednesday afternoon at a garden tea at Eva Conover ranch, near Farron. Following are excerpts from the senators talk: I want to point out that today to-day we have just about the same problems that confronted the great FDR when he took office. We have the same inequitable balance between income and cost of living that made the depression so critical, with an added hopelessness for the retired re-tired person living on an annuity an-nuity or fixed income. Their incomes today, fully adequate during the Democratic 1930s and 1940s, do not now meet the costs of a bare living. The small farm family is chreatened with the loss of their farms, as they were during the great depression,- and face the same dark shadow of aimless wandering as itinerant workers, seeking enough work to provide pro-vide the daily necessities, educating edu-cating their children in half a dozen different schools under different teachers and different (education systems as they are forced to wander. The soil bank, the "plans," none of the lauded Republican Utopias have . helped any farmers except the large, thousand-acre corporation corpor-ation farms. These have profited. profit-ed. The laboring man, who first gained under F D R a place of influence and respect in the economy the lawful right to negotiate with their employers with "big business" is today to-day threatened with loss or severe curtailment of his bargaining bar-gaining rights. This cannot be allowed to happen. We cannot can-not allow our workers, the men and women who have made America the greatest industrial nation in the world to be forced back to the slave-labor status they knew before FDR and the Democratic party took up the Republican challange to better their standard of living. The Small Business Loans Administration, set up by the . Eisenhower administration to help the small businessman survive in this day of higher and higher taxation, more- and more restrictions and red tape, hasn't helped the small business man in Utah, or anywhere else in the nation that I ever heard of. But many large corporations corpora-tions have been receiving millions mil-lions in government funds for plant expansion, for buying new plants, for buying new equipment, equip-ment, or just because they wanted it and could get it. These are just a few of the many inequities that we, your candidates for office on the Democratic ticket, are faced with today as FDR was faced with similar problems during the days of the great depression of the Hoover era. He had what it took to lick those problems, prob-lems, and we, your Democratic representatives, will profit from his example and go out to meet and lick the problems facing America and the world today. immTiiiiriii HillilirrtBB7CTl |