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Show 8 UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DECEMBER 25. 1936. right about face, and form more wholesome tastes when they developed a personal affection for the Man of Galilee. Doubts may come and doubts may go, but the truth lives on for andever. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, hath power to save, even to It is difficult to be optimistic about peace on earth John Edwin Price good will among men this Christmas. Nations armed to thetae uttermost. teeth, bloody civil war in Spain, tensions on half a dozen fronts: ONE SOLITARY LIFE strikes, lockouts and industrial warfare between labor and employers in our. own country; political quarrels and factional Some years ago the Young Mens Christian Association of La fights these paint anything but a picture of a world living in Indiana, issued the following about Him by an unknown author: Torte, harmony. Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of And yet, with Christmas time always comes a spirit of a peasant woman. He grew up in another obscure village. He worked peace, ot happiness, of good will. Captured by thoughts of in a carpenter shop until he was thirty, and then for three years he holly wreaths and tinsel, of sleigh bells and Santa Claus, of chil-- 1 'vas ap itinerant preacher. He never owned a home. He never had dren waiting in wistful expectation for Christmas morning, all I fj. t! neyer went to college. lie never put his foot inside a never traveled two hundred miles from the place he was P'ff city. f t something in our hearts that make this a I born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany i'V?re great- I ness. He had no credentials but himself. merry Christmas. The One whose birthday we observe knew about that I, . While stfll a young man, the tide of public opinion turned against him His friends ran away. One of them denied him. He was turned ;1 "somethincr PU hun?an Iove and brotherhood and over to hig enemies IIe went through the mockery of a trial. He .. I u was tne foundation ot 7j. His teaching. was nailed upon a cross between two thieves. His executioners gam- But Christ did more than preach peace and good will I bled for the only piece of property he had on earth while he was I dyin.ami that was his coat. When he wras dead he was taken down among men He lived it, 365 days a year. In that age-ol- d and b"0"c1 link between preaching and practice is found the message the I through the pity pt a friend . Nineteen wide centuries have come and gone, and today he is . the world ought to have this Christmas. It is easy to preach peace, centerpiece of the human race and the leader of the column of progress. I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies easy for individuals, easy for nations. Practicing peace, I that whether in relations with our neighbors, or between employers I aver marched, and all the navies that ever were built, and all the par- a fkat ever reigned, put together and employes, or with our neighbor-nationis a harder task. II nave not KffootaJ the life of this earth as powerfully as many upon that task must be mastered, or peace on earth and good I has that One Solitary Life! will among men will never be more than a dream. For indi-- 1 viduals, it means following the way of the kind word, the J f 8ve s, AUTO UNION WINS SETTLEMENT DETROIT (UNS) Unionism a spectacular victory in open-sho- p Detroit, when the 2,000 workers of the Midland Steel Products company won their demands for union recognition, higher wages and the abolition of piece work, after an eight-da- y stay-i- n strike. The settlement, unanimously approved by the employes at an enthusiastic meeting, was negotiated by the United Automobile Workers, affiliated with the Committee for Induhtrial Organizascored tion. It was described by President Homer Martin of the U. A. W,. as another great victory for the International and the C. I. 0. Your representatives played an important role in the negotiations and settlement, he wired Chairman John L. Lewis of the C. I. O . Replying, Lewis congratulated the auto workers on the virile leadership shown in the situation and declared that their fine progress is encouraging to all workers throughout the country. TIFF MINERS DOUBLE friendly act, the neighbor spirit. For employers and employes WAGE THROUGH UNION it means tolerance, understanding of each others problems, and The Christmas spirit should mean more to us this year than in .. i .. talking things over across the conference table. For nations it almost any other in memory. In many nations the Union POTOSI, Mo. (UNS) symbology of means following specific, practical policies which translate I Christmas is adrift in a ground swell of human hate and inmore has than organization religious I tolerance. Frantic believers hang desperately to the broken spars, hop- - doubled the pay of Washington peace sentiment into legislative and diplomatic realities. Once lower Peace is a year-roun- d county tiff miners. job, one to which each of us this 1I wg Amenca,doping! with the same forces share- -' from than even southern has unholy paid burrowing within, Christmas season mivht well dedicate all that we have and all I been fortunate to the cherished ideal a trifle scuffed, per- - croppers, they are now well orpreserve I that we are. hap3, but still bright and shining. And it will continue to preserve it, ganized in the International Union which should heighten our appreciation of the coming of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers, In singing this Cristmas canto, I am especially joyousholiday. over a num- affiliated with the Committee for ber of things ring out, ye glad bells! Perhaps Im the last of the Industrial Organization. Happiness Boys, but I do feel much like the end man in the The tiff miners have recently e minstrel show: won increases, following a strike, Everything is going to be all right; yes, sir! For one thing, political fumadiddles notwithstanding, America is which raise the price paid by over the headache of its ten-yetoot. There has been some tough go- processors by 50c to $6.50 a ton. ing for all concerned: boys, deserts and many detours. But out of it The new scale affects 2,500 miners. all we have acquired a philosophy of contentment we might never have Mill hands in the processing plant learned under the old buckitty-buckitthave been raised 25c a day, bringone than people realizes, sort of . by . So ran the lines of an old toast. While there is a sense iniv, More purged , every ? , disaster, ing the minimum daily wage to Where do we about $3. which each man is as important as another in the mechanism of g0 from here? O.O. McIntvJfin Cosmonolit?mff: life, in another sense, practically every man is better than anThen the Class Broke Up other. As we have often said, You are a better person than I NEWS AND COMMENT! Wife: Dont yu think I have Professor Many students are You are therefore a greater person j put too much salt in the soup, like coffee 98 per cent of the acyou were ten years ago. ingredient has been . removed than someone who is still struggling technically, mentally and sfjdd Husband- - "Not at all tive (Continued from Page 1) from the bean! spiritually where you then struggled. cause and its extent Unemploy, darling. There is perha not In democratic America, every man has an equal chance at ment is a disease of the utmost j quite enough soup for He is the best on the air who can the salt, modern education whereby he may change from one class to an-- 1 seriousness affecting society. When thats all. bring about the right atmosphere. differ-encother. Regardless of this equal opportunity there is a e to as in persons according their qualifications tradesmen, I doing away with it. professional men, agriculturists, or whatever their following j Neither the present nor past na ' tional administrations have determay be. ' mined the actual proportions of c ome have mastered one line of occupation, while others unemployment. It has been charg- have become profficient in some other line. Thus every man J ed that politics has been a factor is better than another in his own undertakings, and in those j in blocking a census of the which he has charted for himself as his lifes course. emPiyed. Whatever the reason, no Each person has a duty to perform, and it should bo done well ULabor s prticuSy and while performnig his tasks he should cultivate kind j in knowing all the facts interested) about unA splendid way to get into the Yuletide spirit is to thoughts and friendliness toward his fellow workers and also j employment and its best interests! he an acserved by toward those who are engaged in different lines of occupation. impartial, consider the constructive and informative value of giving survey This Holiday season and through the coming New Year I Utah Labor News yearly subscriptions as gifts. . , subject. If it insists upon such a let us be more tolerant and considerate ott our tellowmen than j survey, be will it acting in the best we have been in the past. Our tolerance and thoughtfulness of j interests of the nation. Your son and daughter should be raised in the true our fellow workers and associates will make us bigger and more Years Young tradition of labor and liberalism which are so vividly poruseful friends, neighbors and associates. With its last weeks issue The trayed every week in expert journalistic style in the Utah Illinois Tradesman, Springfield, 111., celebrated its 40th Labor News. Subscribe as a gift to them today. birthday. The1 Tradesman has been under the ownership and editorial director- Your shopmates and friends should see the Utah His word is as good as his bond used to be the highest I Woodmansee ever sinccTlts Labor News each week during the year 1937. It is your form of praise of an honest, trustworthy man. J ence, with the exception of about duty to subscribe for them today. Make sure that they Secretary Cordell Hull made a notable appeal at Buenos J three months. Woodmansee is a promifollow the labor and social economic news of the world, d.or Aires that nations covet that reputation. Of course that implies character training in every nation. hasSsS' foi so completely covered in the Utah Labor News. It also means that political offices must be dignified and made I years secretary of the Interna-desirable- , with graft unnecessary. It is a long road, but the tional Labor Press of America, an Your home and friends, your union and your leadership along it of such men as Secretary Hull is one of the organization for editors of .labor I airrS wish hopeful signs of our times. club headquarters should have the Utah Lahor continued success to Honesty and truthfulness toward our friends, associates the Tradesman and its able editor. and those we deal with will speed character building in our na-- 1 News in it every week. Subscribe today. tion as well as in other nations. This is the only way that we CENTRAL BODY REVOLTS can attain security of peace and good will between the people of our own nation, and the people of our neighboring nations. WASHINGTON (UNS) ReThe Utah Labor News striction of the powers of central $1.50 per year N labor bodies by the Tampa conven24 South Fourth East Street ONCE I WONDERED tion of the American Federation of Labor caused great indignation Salt Lake City, Utah a stormy meeting of the Washat Once I wondered how it could be that Christ was born miracuington Central Labor union. lously. But as each of my children was laid in my arms, I marveled A vote protest was adopted Endlosed $ for subscriptions at the mystery of all life. I thought, If to accomplish a special pur- against theofamendment conto the pose God wanted to add just a little more mystery to a particular birth, stitution which denies central He probably could do it. bodies their right to place concerns Name Once I wondered how by a touch He could heal the sick. But since on the unfair list if have an they I have seen by how nature builds in new bone callus to strength- agreement with any union. en a break. I have come to see how He who was given all power Address There was virtually no defense could make the contact which would speed up health processes. (Dr. of the conventions action from the Alexis Carrol has even watched an open cancer healed by faith with- floor and many of the usually conin a few hours.) servative threatened City delegates Once I wondered how faith in Him could cause men to be bom open defiance of the new restricanew. But I have lived long enough to see wayward and wicked lives tions on central bodies. old-tim- ar y. ... - un-thin- gs l.i 1 per Seslfe J 1 X-r- ay . Let Holiday Spirit Guide You . . . |