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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Union Rank and File Ask For Extended Labor Peace By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. Service, 1616 Eye Street, N. W., they dont have one and good news when they do, which is every year Washington, D. C. since 1863 when Abraham Lincoln in the WASHINGTON. Sitting committee room where the hearings signed the bill authorizing estabon the forthcoming labor bills have lishment of the department of agribeen taking place I often have won- culture and outlining its functions. At this writing the book is still dered how closeg in galleys but will be out soon. Cirly they were cumstances which interrupted the anfollowed by ?j: nual publication of this work have the rank and combined to make it perhaps the file of the union most interesting in the history of Of members. the department. Its title is Science course, the leadin Farming and it will reveal some ers were listenof the tremendous advances which ing with cocked have affected the products of agriears to every sylculture during and because of the lable were they war. The editor is Alfred Stefferud listening with the and the authors of the some 150 same ears as the odd articles which it contains are men? The reason I mostly scientists in the department. Some are staff members of state ask that is because of a letter colleges, state agricultural experiment stations and other government I received which laboratories. As editor Stefferud asked: How can the thousands of union says, this yearbook will furnish a members like myself make people wealth of information on how to live understand that what the leaders of better and work better, information our unions do are not the views of about food, clothing, housing, garthe small fry rank and file mem- dens, pests, forests, new processes bers? He goes on to claim that and many other things. these international officers are "There isnt room here to list all elected at a convention attended by of the contents but the articles a certain few. And we who stay at which deal with plant and animal home and pay their salaries by our genetics recount tremendous strides monthly dues have nothing to say made in breeding, feeding and care, about who our national officers are and combating insects and disto be or what policies are to be fol- eases. The hen getting her respiralowed. The first inkling we have of tion measured in the picture is an what is going on is when we read it example of the studies of conditions in the paper. favorable to health and well being He points out that people like him- of poultry, cattle and horses which self have no huge financial reserves, have been made. no way to make themselves heard. Then there are the new products All we want, he insists, is to be which have been created out of old left alone. We want to work. We ones: Utilization of corn-cob- s and want to work hard because we are stalks and straw; the manufacture all financially broke. It is our fer- of vegetable meals that used to be vent wish that everybody let us dumped; chapters on penicillin and alone and let us work in peace. When I read that letter on the automobile air, another worker (member of a CIO union) wrote in immediately to agree with the sentiments. He says: All I ask for is 52 weeks work in a year (including one week vacation with and no pay), no strikes, no increase (underlined by the writer) in wages. Industry and farm prices would take away all and more of any increase I might get. I too, wish we could get a secret poll of CIO members on such matters as above, but that is quite improbthe union leaders would disable courage any such vote. Another listener reminded me of Barnes bill in Masthe sachusetts to compel unions to file certain statements with the Coma bill fought by union monwealth leaders which was carried by so large a majority that observers figured that more than 50 per cent of the members of unions in the Bay state had voted in its favor. A woman correspondent added her voice in support of the first worker. She wrote: Men looking for work are trying to avoid jobs where they have to join unions. H. G. Barott of deOf course, there were many who of agriculture places partment disagreed. One of the most vehehen in respiration calorimeter to ment was a Virginian who measure intake of oxygen and began work on the railroad in 1886. output of carbon dioxide and heat. He described early days when unionization was just getting under way. rutin showing the new bond between When I joined the He said: I never and agriculture Brakemen, it was a crime. In fact, guessed that rutinpharmacy. be made from can you had to keep it a secret or off some 35 different plants and the, went your head. He characterizes richest in is the one that proyield who man criticizes his duces those the union tasty buckwheat cakes leadership as a parasite glad to get that I used to drown in maple syrup a raise and better working con- in my youth. ditions, but who will let the other Then there is the story of velva, fellow pay for his fare. An Ohio union member concurs, the toothsome product made of You may or may not over-rip- e saying: When anyone tells you that know thatfruit. of the most difficult one they do not have a say in what their flavors to preserve is that of the officers do, they show no respect even whatsoever for the truth. They apple. It was never captured howshould attend their meetings and in candy, successfully. Now, it has been anchored and there help shape their policies, and dont ever, an is apple flavor as satisfactory officers for what is done blame their as vanilla. Incidentally one of the because it is their own fault. most fascinating articles is the reObviously, situations differ in difsult of a survey which reveals what ferent unions. When the bill is written by Americans eat and why. After even a rather hurried glance congress, I believe it will be so the contents of this volume I at will make it it that possiphrased ble for the majority of union men, realize how lucky are the people if not the majority of the leaders, to who have a friend in congress from vote without qualms for the men whom they can obtain a copy of Science and Farming. Under the who wrote it. That seems common law 260,000 copies of the yearbook political sense. are printed as congressional documents and nearly all of these are delivered to congressmen. It is left to their discretion to distribute them. They also can be purchased When I was reminded that there from the superintendent of docuwas going to be an Agricultural ments of the U. S. government printYearbook this year (the first one ing office. The price has not been it over to announced at this writing but I since 1942) I the editor because the Agricultural imagine it will not exceed $2 this Yearbook is news. Bad news when year. WNU be-in- ? Editors Note: This is another in the Stories of the States series.) By ED EMERINE WNU features. of The aura California sometimes may fade, but it never dies. The subtle influence of El Dorado today is not as vague as the imd agined golden treasures of long ago. California is the land of America where dreams come true. The treasure of good living in a healthful land where there is opportunity beckons strongly today just as the discovery of gold at Sutters sawmill in 1848 beckoned. There is a promise of new life, of a kinder providence, in the sight of citrus groves fable-illumine- a background of snowy There is somehow a rebirth of faith in oil wells spouting black gold, in ships going to the Orient through the Golden Gate, in airplanes and factories, and in desert land made to bloom. The yearning for El Dorado, now against known as California fever, has affected many men of many nations. California is not one state, one climate, one altitude, one picture, or one people. It is the second largest state in the nation. It is scorched and parched desert and cool Lake Tahoe in the mountains. It is Mt. Whitney, 14,522 feet above sea level the highest peak in the United States and vDeath Valley, 200 feet below sea level, both in the same county. It is bathing beauties and movie stars as well as cattle Fine ranches and dairy farms. sands of sweeping ocean beaches, rough and rocky mesas, subtropical areas, frozen Sierra peaks all are California. California may mean farming, mining, cattle raising, trapping, shipping, fruit growing, movie making, lumbering, manufacturing, fishing, hunting or a It hundred other occupations. may be the lonely life of herding sheep or the gay rounds of night clubs, society, yachts, race tracks. Or it may mean Chinatown, Palm Springs, Hollywood, big redwood trees or sagebrush! The average Californian, whether he is a native or an adopted son, may boast with justification that his state has the tallest trees, the g highest mountains, the population and the most promising future of all the states. And these aggressive Californians really mean it. State of Progress. Their energy has built aqueducts from the mountains to make great agricultural areas out of deserts. They have strung power lines from mighty dams to bring energy to cities and factories, dredged great harbors from mud fiats and flung the worlds biggest bridges across a bay. They have developed cotton plantations below sea level and drilled slopes for oil and gas. Irrigation ditches have turned waste lands into grain fields and pastures, truck gardens and orchards. The forbidding areas of a century ago are green and fertile, with comfortable homes where families dwell. Gold was the first natural resource to be exploited in California, the discovery turning a Spanish pastoral country into a Yankee land. And- - the Yankees havent stopped fastest-growin- NATIVE SON . . . Gov. Earl Warren of California is among the states few native sons. He was born in Los Angeles in 1891. His law practice in San Francisco and Oakland was interrupted for service in World War I. Engaged in politics since 1919, he served as Alameda county district attorney for many years. In 1938 he was elected attorney general and in 1942 was elected governor, a post to which he was reelected in 1946. hunting for treasure minerals, timber, gas, petroleum, silver, copper, lead, zinc, platinum, tungsten, magnesite, potash, stone, soda, cement and the soil itself. They harnessed the water power and put it to work. They turned to manufacturing and shipping, and dared to start new ventures such as the moving picture California fired their industry. imaginations, and gave them scenery and a wonderful climate as well. No Gamble in Farming. California has been unlike any other state in development ahd sequence of agriculture. The first industry was cattle, derived from herds driven from Mexico by Viceroy Galvez in 1769 for the Mission establishments. Crops were planted, but there was the annual gamble with drouth. Since 1885, Californias farms have. grown smaller in size, and irrigation has become widespread. Farming is no gamble now! In 1873 ttfo seedless orange trees from Brazil were sent to Riverside, and from these two has sprung fixe modern orange industry of Califor- - nia. The state produces limes, tangerines, citrons, figs, olives, avocados, pomegranates, dates and other fruit. California is the only state producing lemons in commercial quantities. Pears, apples, peaches, plums, prunes, cherries, grapes and small fruits and berries are grown widely in the state. The sensational achievements of Californias great wizard, Luther Burbank, are well known. California was the grow sugar beets. It truck and vegetable produces enormous first state to is a leader in growing and quantities of Persian and English walnuts, almonds, pecans and other nuts. El Dorado is still California. It is a young state, eager to stretch its muscles and do bigHow many Caliger things. fornians will there be in 1950? is asked. Los Angeles county expects to have 3,371,000. The San Francisco Bay area expects to have 2,000,000. The state expects a total of 9,000,000 people to be fed, housed and employed in 1950. The answer? Factories and new industries! Almost every California town has ample electric power and other utilities and a vacant space to put a factory. Santa Clara, San Bernardino, Pomona, Riverside, Gridley, Oroville, Lodi and dozens of other California towns are looking for footloose factories that can be located where there are raw materials on the spot. New Developments Noted. And if factories wont do all the job, what about the new developments in the great Central valley? A new irrigation, flood control and power project there includes Shasta dam on Sacramento river, Friant dam on San Joaquin river and numerous irrigation canals. Nine miles downstream from Shasta, Kenwick dam is being constructed to create an afterbay reservoir for the Shasta power plant and generate additional power itself. This development will take care of thousands more people from Redding to Bakersfield, including the San Francisco Bay area. Although the motion picture industry was born on the east coast, the movie capital of the world today revolves around Hollywood and its environs Culver City, Universal City and Burbank. The atmosphere there is so clear that pictures can be taken on about 350 days of the year, while topography and flora afford varied locations. Perhaps California has been praised too lavishly, cursed too loudly, toyed too greatly and hated beyond all reason. Not many misfits, or modem adventurers, will find California all it is advertised to be. But the strong, the sensible, the industrious, the substantial ones may find in California a greater selection of vocations, interests and opportunities than they have ever known before. Remember, they do the impossible right along in California! i lay-of- fs .so-call- ed Bio-physic- hot-foot- ed |