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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. AUGUST 21.1936. GOVERNOR BLOOD NOMINATED BY DEMOCRATIC CONVENION I aside (Continued from page 1) all selfishness and Join in d support of hia par-tyever occupied the president that of the most chief executives chair. noble Democrat of all, President Roosevelt." Harmony Asked Senator Elbert D. Thomas was Sensing a very evident feeling the keynoter of the morning sesState on the gubernatorial site, Chairman Rawlings made an up sion, and wielded the gavel as permanent chairman of the convention peal for party harmony regardless the afternoon. during of latnominations outcome of the During the day brief speeches er in the day. given by U. S. Commissioner We are here, Rawlings said, to swear our allegiance to Presi- of Customs James II. Moyle, ant dent Roosevelt, the national plat- Congressman Abe Murdock and J. form, and to select and support Will Robinson. Other Contests a state ticket. One thing we must have is The contest for supreme court harmony within our organization. justice was between District Judge You have selected a state commit- Martin M. Larson of Utah county, tee. That state committee will do and District Attorney Olof It. all in its power to elect those can- Michelsen of Sevier county. The didates you nominate today. It can- vote was 44614 for Larson and not hope to succeed without your 351 94 for Michelsen. 100 per cent support. Dr. E. E. Bronson was nominatContinuing Rawlings reminded: ed for secretary of state on third Elections are not won from tne ballot. The other contenders were platform. Victory requires organ- W. K. Granger, II. F. Quinn and ized work in the districts among Julius Andersen. The vote on the the voters. last ballot was Monson 526, Quinn The Democratic party is big- 274. Joseph Chez was renominated for ger than any individual. Regardless of what happens here today attorney general by acclamation. we must keep Utah in the DemoThe contest for state auditor was decided on second ballot with cratic columns. Mr. complimented a vote of 452 for John W. Guy to Rawlings Utah's women organizations, as 347 for Wilford G. Frischknecht. the finest in the union, and gave The other contenders were elimisimilar credit to the state junior nated on the first ballot. Reese M. Reese of Price won the Democratic clubs. nomination for state treasurer Telegram Read A telegram from Orman W. with a vote of 464 to 331 for ErEwing, former Democratic nation- nest Nelson of Brigham City. al committeeman for Utah, said in Charles II. Skidmore, incumbent the hope of state superintendent of public inDemocracy, part, mankind, is on trial throughout struction, was an easy winner. His the civilized world. It is under at- opponent, J. R. Smith of Salt Lake, tack by both fascism and commun- before the roll call was half over, ism. It behooves every liberty-lovin- g moved that Skidmores nomination Democrat in America to lay be made by acclamation. I whole-hearte- .e i, e Sagebrush Democrats Held a Harmony Meeting Monson, candidate for secretary of state; Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles II. Skidmore; Mrs. D. W. Moffatt; National Committeeman A. S. Brown; Mrs. L. S. Rice of Farmington. County Commissioner J. R. Rawlins, president of the club, was the master of ceremonies. Following the program refreshments were served, a treat by the host and hostess. It was a harmonious event in a beautiful setting and all present and speeches, indicated harmony. testified their steadfastness to Among those who made short united Democracy under the leadtalks were Alf Gunn, a Maw nomi- ership of President Franklin D. nator; Secretary of State M. II. Roosevelt and Governor Henry II. Welling; Mr. Musser; Dr. E. E. Blood. Despite the threatening showers Monday night more than 300 members of the Sagebrush Democrat club attended the lawn party given by Mr. and Mrs. Burton W. Musser at their beautiful home, 1133 Harvard avenue. To the party were Invited as special guests all those whose names were presented at the Democratic state convention Saturday. It was sort of harmony meeting. The entire program music, songs JUDICIAL MEET LISTS NOMINEES George Christensen of Price and J. II. llougaard of Manti were nominated for district judge and Donald T. Adams of Monticello for district attorney at the Seventh judicial district convention in the Newhouse hotel Friday evening. This district includes Carbon. Sanpete, Emery, Grand and San Juan counties. Mr. Christensen is an incumbent judge and Mr. llougaard seeks the post held by Dilworth Woolley, Manti Republican. Mr. Adams, San Juan county at- torney for the last four years, was nominated by Fred W. Keller of Monticello, district attorney for the last 12 years, who withdrew from the race this year. POLITICAL OUTLOOK (Continued from page 1) The party leaders admit that Seegmiller will have a conisder-abl- e showing in Saturdays bout but not enough to nominate him. They also predict that the nomination will not be made on the first ballot. Several ballots may be required before the fight is finally settled. Outside of Seegmiller the strongest contenders are Christenson, Kelly and Dillman. If these three combine their forces any one oir the three can be nominated. State Nominees (Continued from page 1) Brady Favored Nominated by acclamation to sue ceed himself as Attorney General REESE M. REESE Nominated for State Treasurer AWAIT ORDERS FROM A. F. OF L. No developments have occurred during the past week in reference to the suspension of 10 international unions by the American Federation of Labor executive council at its session in Washington recently. . Up to the present time nothing has been released as to what action is to be taken by local central bodies and the state federation of labor, as no official communications have come from President William Green. It is expected, however, that something will be forthcoming at an early date, though possibly not until after September 5, the time allotted the suspended internationals to make an answer and comply with the terms laid on how to remain in the fold. Information from Washington stated President Green had said if the order to get out was not obeyed y grace by the end of the inof the locals suspended period, withto notified be will ternationals draw from central and state bodies. If the threatened order comes to pass it will play havoc with the existing central bodies and the state federation of labor in Utah. In the case of the Utah state federation it would disconnect alof its per capimost ta paying membership, including the United Mine Workers of America, Oil Workers, and the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. It would practically destroy the Carbon county Central Labor Union, and make a serious dent in the Salt jake Federation of Labor. The sympathies of the Utah La-jNews have been with the Committee on Industrial Organization, and we expect to carry on an educational campaign in its behalf and cooperate with John L. Lewis and lis coworkers. 30-da- JOHN W. GUY Democratic nominee for State Auditor Of all human ambitions, an open mind, eagerly expectant of new discoveries, and ready to remold convictions in the light of added knowledge and dispelled ignorance and misapprehensions, is the noblest, the rarest and the most diffiJames Harvey cult to achieve Robinson. Our government springs from and wras made for the people not the people for the government. To them it owes allegiance; from them it must derive its courage, strength and wisdom. Andrew Johnson. In Andrew Jacksons time they tilled land with a spade. It required 96 hours for a good man to spade an acre of ground. Today one man, with a helper, using a tractor can work 22 acres per day. They can plow an acre in one seven-hun- -' dredth of the time it took with a spade. three-fourth- s, or WHEN IN PROVO ITS SUTTON CAFE A Good PUce to Eat- 3 LABORS NON-PARTISA- LEAGUE N Plans are being developed for organizing the trade union women in the League, with their friends. There ought to be at least three million women voters for Roosevelt in the ranks of labor. Official News WASHINGTON, I). C. Up to this time Labors Non - Partisan League has been endorsed by officers of 53 national and internaA labor political tional unions. solidarity never before achieved is thus recorded in support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Twenty-on- e state federations have endorsed the League and Roosevelt. Similar action has been taken by 38 central labor unions. Included in the list of local unions endorsing the League and Roosevelt are 1!) carpenters unions. Union after union has sent to the League its complete roster of members, in order that they may receive the Leagues message Governor Landon Is in the business. He pays about the est wages of any oil operator in the Kansas fields. His fellow independent oil operators in Kansas have issued cards which say, 80 per cent of Eastern Kansas and Oklahoma stripper oil well producers and royalty owners will support Roosevelts administration November 3. They know Landon as an oil producer. In the category of state aid to rural schools. Kansas stands 48th It is evident that at this time in the list of states. The last in candidate perhaps Moyor Harman about 85 per cent of the organized the parade of states in this vital labor movement is FOR President matter. Ieery of Ogden. Some are speculating what ef- Roosevelt. fect a third party or independent Colonel Knox wants workers to candidate would have on the The meeting of state chairmen own more shares of stocks. Some chances of reelection of Henry II. of the League put the workers owned a little stock in Blood as governor of Utah. League on a basis of permanency, 1929. They like the Roosevelt idea Your observer believes that the set up a national board and author- of higher much better. And Democrat candidate for governor ized a basis of financing through so does ALL labor. would not lose to the third candi- the membership. Membership is date any more than would the Re- growing by leaps and bounds every Reports of the 48 state chairmen League, publican nominee, therefore, our day. The movement toward poli- of Labors guess at this early stage of the tical unity of those whose inter- in the big Washington meeting campaign is that Governor Henry ests lie in promotion of the com- were uniformly sound, based on obII. Blood will be reelected. mon welfare is growing rapidly servation and experience and emWe predict that for every Demoand already constitutes one of the phatic in their assurance of Roosecrat Blood loses there will be 10 most important political develop- velt victory. substantial and thinking Republi- ments of the last half century. cans who will vote for him. The President Roosevelts letter to Governor has made such an enviaWith the League firmly and of- the Leagues national ble record during his first term ficially organized on a national meeting was clear and definite evithat all those who are home owm-e- basis, the of organizing by dence of his attitude toward labor and taxpayers, regardless of congressional districts is proceed- and of his fine understanding of political affiliation, desire that he ing rapidly and should be com- labors problems. There has never serve another term and finish the pleted shortly. All state chairmen been a more definite pledge of serjob he has so well initiated during have been urged to get this work vice in a common cause. Labor the past four years. under way with all possible vigor. cheered it to the echo. Non-Partis- an Non-Partis- Non-Partis- rs Campaign Committee The Democratic state committee .and party nominees held a meeting at the Newhouse hotel Tuesday night to lay plans for an active campaign in behalf of President Roosevelt, Governor Blood and the entire Democratic ticket. By resolution the party nominees designated the state committee as their campaign committee, with .additional members to be designated by each nominee The state committee selected the following to go on the ballot as Roosevelt presidential electors: J. E. Wilson of Milford, E. A. Britsch of Manti, Mrs. Callahan of Provo, and Mrs. Marguerite Larson of Salt Lake City. According to the reports by state committeemen from all sections of the state outlook for Democratic party success at the polls on November 3 is very promising. Raymond R. Brady, a young Salt Lake City attorney, is given an even chance to win the Republican nomination for congress from the Second Congressional district. There are five in the field. The others are Wilford Owen Woodruff Midvale publisher; E. H. Eardley, Salt Lake electrical engineer; R. W. Adams of Layton, and A. V. Culinary Workers Watkins of Orem. Back Roosevelt Eardley announced his candidacy this week, while the others have The anROCHESTER, N. Y. lad their hats in the ring for nual convention of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes and Bartenders International Alliance meetLocal Politics here adopted by acclamation a Now that the state Democratic ing resolution presented by General ticket has been named, the names President Edward Flore endorsing of prospective timber for legisla- the reelection of for candidacy tive, county and city judiciary is President Roosevelt. In speaking on eing forwarded. the resolution President Flore said: V. Karl King, attorney, this The of the working week announced his candidacy for man and interest woman today is centered the Democratic nomination for the in the reelection of the Hon. Frankcity bench. lin D. Roosevelt, of the Lynn Richards, a prominent at- United States, and president conI this urge torney and a Democrat, announced vention to give its indorsement to his candidacy for the city judge him as labors candidate and to position last week. authorize the general officers to Among those prominently menhis reelection their full suptioned for the state senate from give port. Salt Lake county are Stanley N. The convention voted appropriaChild, legislator and building con- tion of finances to help win reelectractor, and' Mrs. Flora Severn, a tion for Roosevelt. prominent Democratic party workOfficers reports disclosed that er. There are four places open in the goal of 100,000 members had the senate race. jeen nearly reached, more than 19 Those being mentioned for the on the rolls, the big jump being places in the lower house of the coming within the last year. The legislature are John Christison, membership drive is to be continKnox Mrs. Patterson, Arthur ued throughout the entire country. Marsh, David Camimile, Marjorie Ward, Chris Greenhagen, G. BaxEconomic Highlights ter, Joe Fitzpatrick. Another week will see a good supply of legislative timber come Iappenings That Affect the Dinner into the open. Pails, Dividend Checks and Tax Bills of Every Individual. NaRoosevelt Is Strong tional and International Problems Inseparable from Local There is no doubt about the Welfare. strength of President Roosevelt growing in Utah and other states A. F. of L. Crisis day by day. In addition td states Never in its long and he carried four years ago, Penntumultuous history has the sylvania is safe for Roosevelt in 92,-0- 00 an an k American Federation of Labor faced such a crisis as it does today. Cause of the crisis is John Llewellyn Lewis, militant head of the United Mine Workers, whose principal ambition is to unionize the steel inaggressively dustry. Reason for the crisis is the fact that Mr. Lewis believes in industrial unions, while A. F. of L. head William Green still clings to the tradition of craft unions. Difference between a craft anc but industrial union is simple vast. Under the craft union system, from which the Federation has never deviated, unions consist o:' men doing a certain kind of work, though they may be employed in a hundred different industries. Thus, all truck drivers belong to the same union though some may work for steel corporations, some for breweries, some for department stores, etc. Under the industrial union system advocated by Mr. Lewis, al workers within an industry would belong to one big union, whatever their jobs. If, for example, the steel industry was unionized, the union would consist of smelter operators, machinists, and every other kind of workmen 6teel making requires. The issue has split union sympathizers wide open. It came to a head when A. F. of L. tried the unions following Mr. Lewis, suspended them for a brief period, threatened to drop them thereafter unless they came back within the open-sho- p LABOR LEADER VISITS UTAH Harry W. Fox, one of the oldest labor leaders in the intermountain states, was a visitor in Salt Lake City for a few days this week. Mrs. Fox accompanied him. Mr. Fox served the Wyoming Federation of Labor as its president for 18 years, resigning in 1933 to accept a position in the labor division of the NRA. He is still in government service with the Guffey Coal Act division. He was completing a two months tour of the western states on Chronic Objectors . of- ficial business. Mr. Fox is well and favorably known to the in the old-time- rs Utah labor movement. lie visited the state federation conventions here as a fraternal delegate from Wyoming during his incumbency as head of the Tabor movement of that state. He is a member, of many years standing of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes International union, and is a keen student of labor prob- lems and economics. In the present controversy raging between the A. F. of L. and C. I. O., Mr. Fox said that he has cast his lot with the C. I. O. because he believes John L. Lewis and his coworkers are right in their plan of organization of workers in mass production industries. Mr. Fox spent several hours in the Utah Labor News office disfold. Mr. Lewis did not even ap- cussing various problems including the reelection of President Roosepear at the trial in defense he has velt, and reviewing different labor immany of the biggest and most activities. Mr. Fox and the editor in the in unions country portant his ranks, and he feels that his or- have been close friends for many ganization is on the way up, will years. eventually either supplant or take See that the posters and camover the A F. of L. literature of the candidate paign Extremely momentous phase of friend the Lewis movement is its poten- who claims he is thehasgreat Union the labor of organized on politial and actual influence tics. Some think that Mr. Lewis Label on them. looks to the creation of an AmerUntil 1935 the wrought iron ican labor party, similar to those beFrance puddler could only puddle about 200 and, active in England, fore Hitler, in Germar- - Mr. Lewis pounds his own weight each day but the Aston process makes neither affirms nor denies that but in the mean time, he is taking wrought iron at the rate of 500 to a far more active part in partisan 1,000 tons per day and makes it politics than any man of his im- letter than it could be made by portance in the labor movement land. ever did before. He is strong for the reelection of the President, and it seems certain that his influence will swing millions of votes to the New Deal. Some think that it may be the deciding factor in politicalwhere ly crucial Pennsylvania, Lewis followers are most numerous, and that, as a result, it may determine the election. 1936. There are chronic objectors in all political parties. There is some talk among these to form a third party or trot out an independent oil low- If you believe in the Rule of Reason and the Good American Form of Government, then you should he a regular reader of the Utah Labor News. It gives the facts. Published weekly in the interest of the average citizen. Bottles In 12 and Pasteurized In half gallon jugs unpasteurized ce 16 months for $2. 12 months for $1.50. A trial subscription, 3 months for 25c. . A Real Keg Beer Superior Western Product |