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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER 20, 1936. the precision of a series of relay Radio Union Boasts switches. Furthermore, it is difficult to Thirteen New Locals Dinner the Affect That the political importance Happenings on exaggerate We do not expect a turkey to walk up and lay his head Pails, Dividend Checks and Tax I of the presidents personality. A NEW YORK (UNS) our chopping block in order that we may have a good Thanks Rapid Bills of Every Individual Na- - natural born speaker, he has the growth tional and International Prob- - rare faculty of establishing a per Radio of the United Electrical & giving dinner. Union is evidenced And yet it would probably surprise us no more to see a lems Inseparable from Local sonal relationship between himsel by theWorkers of five new local issuing I and the voters. As many point out charters in two weeks. turkey do just that than for us to see a parade of all the folks Welfare. Eight new no one in the political history o locals who have been working for years to help make our feast per were chartered this indusThe Roosevelt victory is of such I the last century has had so great a trial union in the firstbyfive months feet next Thursday. mammoth proportions as to leave grip on the emotions of millions o' of its existence, the first annual The people of Utah contribute something to the welfare no room for his opponents to be American citizens, convention at Fort Wayne was told, of people living afar and many living afar will be contributors bitter or his critics to cavil. It is Future Policies and the influx of new members has so overwhelming that alibis, anal- to our comfort, happiness and satisfaction. The important qucstion to be increased more rapidly since then. yses and explanations seem The latest locals have been If our feast will be prepared by oil or coal heat we can The answered now .g mat direction only thing to do is cheerfully wjjj future Roosevelt policies take? formed in Springfield, Mass., New be grateful to drillers or miners and men who have spent a accepUthe er that And here with mult, be again there is a wide dif Kensington, Pa., Akron and Manslife time in perfecting machinery that we may have the product it was possible so blind before I ference to of opiniorif even in the field, O., and Fort Wayne, Ind. the election to the lrpsistible na- at a price we can afford to pay. own Springfield, where there was alpresjdents camp. Supportec ture of the Then, too, there are the many men who had a part in get ment I hg is by amazingly varied ready a strong local of some 4000 and force, behind him. execu Westinghouse workers, now has a kut the ting our fuel to us. one of the I tive himself can answer that ques new local in the United American So wrote Frank Kent, had workmen a of have hundred part most forthright of Roosevelt critics, hion. Probably a types Thus, one New Deal group Bosch Corp. Enough of the comin getting the spices to us that will go into our pies and dress This view is generally held by the js 0f the opinion that the President panys 1600 employes have paid mgs. professional publicists who sup-- hs likely to take a conservative dues to make the union one of the the in been have and children toiling p.orted Landon. Those who support-- 1 course, now that business has re- strongest industrial organizations Men, women ed the President say with justice I covered much of the ground lost in this area, according to Matthew Brazil broiling sun for a mere pittance for pay in China, Japan, that they anticipated the result, I during depression, and will refrain Campbell, national vice president of and Hawaii, that we may have tea or coffee with sugar. the union. that it was inevitable new experiments. This is thougnfrom . And so we might go on listing the agents of Providence most of them were surprised by I small group, who in faithfully fulfilling their tasks, have made it possible for the extent of the victory. Another group feels that the For the sake of the record, here president will swing sharply to the Auto Union Boosts us to fully enjoy a grand meal on Thanksgiving day. is how the great battle of 1936 left, and go whole hog along the But while we are grateful for these we are also grateful came Wages in Two Plants out: The President carried 46lpath of a socialist or collectivist or and us aroused who fellow have of faithfulness men our the for states, for a total of 523 electoral I fascist program. This too is small, DETROIT (UNS) Union orour nation to the need of conserving lifes good things. votes. Governor Landon carried 21 'pjjg largest group, and the one inhas ganization brought We are grateful that soil conservation is now well under- states, with 8 electoral votes. Theljgh seems best informed and creases to auto workers inwage , retwo gave the President a cosest to the white House, feels cent, instances reported way with knowledge of how to put the goodness back in that popular vote by Pres. 26,--1 about of 10,000,000 majority that the second Roosevelt Admin-)00,00- 0 Homer Martin of the United has been taken out. Auto1 to middle-of-nenhis oppo-16,000,000 for t. will follow a jstration mobile Workers. We are thankful that mankind has at last awakened to the It was the most decisive elec-- 1 d course that the President A wage increase of 3 folly of letting surplus water run to waste, wreckfully in floods. toral college victory since the two- - Udn attempt the difficult job of cents general an hour throughout the Ben-di- x Conservation dams and lakes are being built throughout the party system became well estab- holding the balance between radi-ishein South Bend, Ind., plant calism on the one hand and reaction land. some 2000 workers, went So so far good. But when iton the other. In other words, they into effect is now We are thankful that the need for during September. The comes to guessing why Mr. Roose- - feei that he will try to maintain a increase came as the result of I generally acknowledged. velt achieved, the unprecedented, government-regulate- d capitalism hreatened strike action by the I for We are thankful that game has been protected many here is considerable difference of and at the same time keep the n, union last June. especially in the Republi-- 1 wingers as contented as possible Another increase of 3 cents an years and is again becomnig fairly plentiful. can Thus, Walter Lippman, camp. At this writing, the President iour was granted, workers in Geoconscience world wide for the We are grateful awakening who supported Roosevelt in 1932 himself has given but one indica metric Co., Cleveland, that the great plenty of earth was not planned for a penurious ut turned to Landon in the last I tion 0f future policy, that was his after anStamping eight-hostrike on Sept few. campaign, has written that the statement that the budget will soon 30. At 10 oclock that morning But most of all we are grateful for the apparently gradual campaign was more or less normal be balanced a step which, if every worker in the plant walked truth the that it all of these the proved that realization conservation the of simply will achieved, naturally be regarded out and formed a picket line that dawning is an incumbent old of that as adage and will be lauded was maintained until an agreement and if moral of the time conservative, is waste for man a physical benefits in a period of industrial by industry. He seems to feel that was reached in the unbeatable evening at 6 spiritual values of man himself be not conserved. Mr. Lippman also better conditions make it possible oclock. improvement. The agreement And so on Thanksgiving Day in Utah we are grateful to a says that if the solid south which to reduce government relief spend-n- o also for union recognitionprovided and a Providence Who provides plenteously and Who has kept the Republican can hope to carry ing by a considerable amount. This 00 per cent union shop. any circumstance is ehmi- - saving, plus the increase in tax thought of conservation ringing in the eargates of man's soul un- under from consideration, such Re- - come that result from improved inA hundred men may make an entil at last he has heard and is beginning to heed. publican candidates as Harding, dustrial earnings and higher taxes, campment, but it take a woman to Coolidge and Hoover, won just as may do away with Federal deficits, make a home. Chinese proverb. handily. GAINS WAGE BOOST AND ELECTION Political Flood DRIVE UP TO SPEED SPUR S.W.O.C. On the other hand, famed William Allen White, one of Landons closest advisors, sees the election Heart- of wage computation on organized PITTSBURGH (UNS) very differently. He believes that ened by tangible evidence of the labor, but without success. Far from discouraging union or- it was not just an election which progress of its drive, in the form ganization, the wage increase, to- the country has just undergone, but a political Johnstown flood. The of the companies wage concession, gether with Roosevelts an enrollment of 82,315 workers will do more to make the workers dam gave way which has been The Utah Labor News is the only bona fide filling for 40 years, fed by swing-ove- r to conscious of their power than any slowly and the election of Theothe waters of Roosevelt in all steel towns, the thing in a long time, Lewis said. dore RooseveltsBryanism, of weekly publication in Utah featuring activities progressivism, He pointed out that the coal Steel Workers Organizing CommitWisconsin La insurgency, tee met in Pittsburgh and complet- operators had tried to forestall of Follettes of men and women of labor. It is endorsed by Wilsonian liberalism, of the union a organization by granting ed plans for speeding up the camunsenate bloc in the wage increase when the NRA went progressive thousands of workers, both collectively and inpaign. der the Administrations of HardThe committee was swamped into force, but that it did not work. The ing, Coolidge and Hoover. with reports of dissatisfaction with They had to meet three weeks later waters cover Deal dividually. New of the thej and another increase, the earth. grant the agreement to which the comheedi not did Republicans to blind the steel miners leader said, and when the the panies attempted warnings ' comcode was were The Utah Labor News is the only labor averadopted they workers, in announcing the Generally speaking, this view is to a increase. third pelled cent grant 10 increase. wage age per widely held. In addition, practically Most of the employe representa- publication in Utah featuring the news service all commentators agree that the tives were refusing to sign the NEWS AND COMMENT Republican campaign was inept and of the Committee for Industrial Organization. employers agreement, and emphathe organizahandled, party badly sizing the inadequacy of the wage tion was about as bad as it could (Continued from Page 1) boost. and that Landon and his advisbe, THE PROOF . One of the most unpopular fea- jamin Franklin, printer (like the ors failed to make the best of the tures of the agreement is the pro- cover of an old book, its contents situation. By contrast, the Demoposal to freeze the level of steel tom out and stripped of its letter- cratic machine under Jim Farley The Utah Labor News has a reading list of wages by tying them to the cost ing and gilding), lies here, food for was a marvel of efficiency and worms. Yet the work itself shall of living index of July 15, 1936. effectiveness. There was no waste the best paid workers in the state, and thereJohn L. Lewis, chairman of the not be lost, for it will, (as he be- motion worked with everything Committee for Industrial Organiza- lieves) appear once more in a new fore it is the best advertising medium for the tion, pointed out that this would and more beautiful edition, corwheel of rected and amended the to the worker Author. bind the by business institutions which desire to reach economic circumstance and create Our idea of a patriotic turkey class of citizens, a their best prospective customers. preventing any improvement in would be one who would gobble I I have but out, status. only regret that It would arrogate to stock- one life to give for my country, The recent election returns were the best Union Mined holders all the benefits of increased before he was gobbled down. productivity, he said. proof of the influence of the Utah Labor News. Both he and Sec. Chas. P. 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