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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. OCTOBER 23. 1936. ton County Is for Flew Deal and Progress LANDON BLASTS LABOR RECORD (Continued from page 4) Labor always opposed prohibition. 5 Governor Landon failed to procure enforcement of the Kansas aw requiring payment of prevail-n- g wages on public works and fixing ari day. This law, under Governor Landon, has been a er count against Governor Landon, this one would be of overwhelm - dead letter. A 1 ing significance. company union GHere is the idea of workinir and who hold identical anti-labviews. President Boose velts record offers every ncces of Bary reason for the or anti-soci- al on 1 the President. Governor Landons record makes it imperative to the last degree, not only for the sake of social and economic progress and safety, but for the preserva-- ' tion of labors rights and its free- and controlled by the employer. Governor Landon: dom. 2 Governor Landon is an out The Kansas Department of Laright breaker of strikes. On May bor and Industry makes no at8, 1935, when members of the tempt to fix minimum for NEW DEAL AND Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers' women and children inwages industry, union were on strike against intol- but makes some attempt to stip- SMALL ENTERPRISES erable conditions in Southeastern ulateit maximum hours. Kansas, fighting the death-dealin- g As last amended in February, hazard of silicosis, among other 1936, while the (In Three Chapters, Part I) governors camthings, Governor Landon called out paign for the nomination unthe Old Deal, retail sales Under was troops at the request of mine own- der full headway, the Department fell from 49 billion dollars to 25 ers. With these troops on guard of Labor and Industry established: billion. Collections were bad, prices the lead mines were opened with A day and a 40 Va to 52 were demoralized, credit was aln labor. hour week in laundries. and thousands most It will not be forgotten that A week of businsesses were failing when day and a silicosis was found to be such a of 40Va to 54 hours in manufactur- President Roosevelt took office. menace in an eastern state that a ing. The New Deal acted to melt federal 'investigation was forced, An day and j frozen capital, increase business, revealing that almost certain death week in hotels and restaurants. reduce delinquency, stop vicious is the penalty paid by the workA week of 48 hours for competition, and diminish bankers who are its victims. telephone employes, except for ruptcy. In the strike menaced by Gov- night operators who may be emRetail sales in 1935 were 27 per ernor Landons troops, workmen ployed for 12 continuous hours, in- cent 0 above 1932. described the working conditions cluding rest and sleep time which retailers, reporting as the equivalent of slow death, shall not be considered working to Independent of commerce, inthe department with the silica dust cutting the time. becreased their business 18.2 Without Civil Service lungs of the man who works like tween June of 1935 and June of emery dust cuts iron. 7 Under Governor Landon 1936. Statistics show that the aver- there has been no civil service sysincome will be at least age life of the miners, such as tem whatever in Kansas. There 21 National billion dollars larger in 1936 those whose protest the governor has been no appropriation and the in Hoover last than the year. Facsought to smash with soldiers, is governor has sought none.' Kansas doubled. have tory payrolls not over ten working years and has had a civil service law for Insolvencies in June, 1936, were that 55 per cent of their children decades, but the present governor, are affected by silicosis or tuber- who proposes to extend the Fed- the lowest since 1920, and liabiliculosis as a result. eral civil service, has made no ties were lowest since 1906. Seventy-fiv- e cent of the Failures of commercial enterper move in Kansas. members of the Mine, Mill and of the 8 Governor Landon has per- prises are now only 42 Smelter Workers' union are still mitted prison labor to be used on rate of the prosperous years, 1925-192out on strike in that area, accord- public works and nonunion labor One nundred and twenty-thre- e ing to reports received by us, has been employed in renovation of while the wives and children of the executive mansion. thousand fewer concerns went to these men sleep on piles of straw 9 Governor Landon opposed the wall in 1931 than in the Hoo for want of bedding. the petroleum ver year of 1932. NRA, except for No Minimum Wage Law N. R. A. approved many urgen raised which code, prices for oil 3 The governors record on well owners. proposals of groups representing state minimum wage legislation 10 Governor Landon was sec- - hundreds of thousands of retailers nullification which proposals were intended to even of guarantees retary to Henry J. Allen when weak and misleading proposals len was governor. Governor Allen halt competition. of his platform. Until July, 1925, forced the establishment of the In 1936. Congress passed the anti-pric- e dis had a minimum wage law mous Kansas Court of Industrial Robinson-Patma- n for women and children. In that Relations, which all American la- - crimination bill. Tens of thousands of new enter month the state supreme court bor denounced and which it made killed the law. Governor Landon a paramount issue until the Court prises have begun under the New never made a move to protest and was rendered dormant by judicial Deal. he has never sought to procure en- decision. Governor Landon not Washington retail business was actment of legislation to replace only never repudiated that imposi- 42 higher in 1935 than in 1933 more busithe invalidated law. He has accept- tion upon labor, but Allen, today and there were 12 ed the courts reactionary verdict one of Landons arch supporters, nesses. increase in reMaine had a 25 and has proven himself content currently boasts that Fascism in 11 in numincrease an condition tail sales, with the result which has penalized Italy is similar to the 23 a of increase and of Court ber Kansas stores, the women and child workers of created under the Industrial Relations, which is a in manufacturing enterprises, be Kansas. institu- tween 1933 and 1935. 4 Governor Landon has kept compulsory arbitration Kansas a prohibition state, with tion. Montana had a 68 increase in This is all we care to make pub- retail sales, and an 18 increase the result that the state has been Berry. in outlets, between 1933 and 1935. beset with the ghastly evils of lic at this time, said Major anti-labo- r. bootlegging and violation of law The whole record is Thousands of individuals have that drove the nation to repeal the And I want to say that it is the started their own service business of and to perfectly natural sequence Gains in numbers rang eighteenth amendment 1932. since Landon, as adopt heroic efforts to wipe out events to find Governor surrounded (Continued on page 6) the organized crime and gangster- presidential candidate, ism resulting from prohibition. by a coterie of intimate advisers non-unio- non-existe- nt, 6-d- ay 48-ho- ur ur 6-d- ay 9. , I POLITICAL OUTLOOK from Page 1) workers union, and a Roosevelt supporter. Father Ryan read letters from garment manu facturers men with whom Dubin-sk- y has been in conflict saying that Dubinsky had fought and defeated communism in the garment workers union, that he was the chief bulwark against it. He similarly showed how the views of Felix Frankfurter and Professor Tugwell were being twisted and distorted to make them appear as advocates of communism, when in fact they are trying to reform capitalism so as to prevent the rise of communism. Not one communist, Father Ryan pointed out, has ever come out of Professor Frankfurters classes at Harvard. He is called a communist chiefly because he believes in heavy taxation of great fortunes. The most damaging statements ever attributed to Tugwell, Father Ryan said, are that America is in need of industrial reforms, that the poor must obtain higher standards of living, that we must have a better distribution of wealth and income, and that these beneficent changes caij most effectively be brought about by a cooperative action of farmers and laborers. That is what Professor Tugwell stands for, and Father Ryan agrees with him. The communist argument against Tugwell was offered and went to pieces when a senate committee was considering his appointment as undersecretary of agriculture. At that time a sentence was quoted from a speech he had once made, saying, Americas future is becoming visible in Russia. Tugwell pointed out that he was not stating his own views, but was summarizing the contention that (Continued garment GLENN E. SNOW State Representative WELCOME, . . . W. O. MATHIS ... ELLIS J. PICKETT County Attorney County Commissioner . . . Term GEORGE H. LYTLE G. W. 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WELCOME, Comfortable, Clean Rooms Air Conditioned Dining Room ... Term MORRIS WILSON, Jr. WILL L. HOYT Read the ads in The Utah Labor News. U. S. County Commissioner District Judge A speech such as this, listened to deby millions, should go far to connow being stroy the campaign ducted by Father Coughlin, Republican Chairman John D. M. Hamilton and others a campaign of charges which Monsignor Ryan calls ugly, cowardly and flagrant calumnies. Cafe Liberty HotelStandard On Highway Famous for Malted Milks Sandwiches and Fountain Service ... istration. FURNITURE AND HARDWARE Paints and Wire Fencing ST. GEORGE, UTAH fa-Kan- sas State Senator XIII and Pope Pius XI. The truth is that much of the Roosevelt proRygram was advocated by Father an himself in the Hoover admin- E. B. SNOW FURNITURE CO. cut-thro- at Washington County DEMOCRATIC TICKET so-call- ed Best Wishes to Labor Al-th- WELCOME, complete national planning is necessarily a function of the federal government. He did not agree with that doctrine, he said. Political demagogs, however, continue to misuse the quotation. Their purpose is plain. They are trying to smear President Roosevelt with the charge of communism, because they do not like the new deal. Monsignor Ryan made this clear, and he declared that the communistic legislation of the Roosevelt administration really consists of laws for the benefit of labor and the farmer, in accord with the encyclicals of Pope Leo Extends Best Wishes to Labor D. H. HEATON Directors: Friend of Labor W. C. Bentley, Walter Cannon, Geo. H. Lytle, E. S. Gardner, Orval Ilafen ST. GEORGE, UTAH VL |