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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. APRIL 2. 1937. 2 Judiciary Stop Wit af) labor Jtetoa A MEMBER OF THE Established 1929 This paper receives Union News Service, a CL 0. affiliate. 04 matter March 28, 1030, at the post office Entered as second-clas- s at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. per annum $1.50 Subscription Advertising rates by request. cy committee in 1933 in the investigation of banking and stock promotion rackets which led congress to pass the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Mr. Pecora was able to support his claim with indisputable facts. In strong language he charged the investment bankers with stag- Dictatorship Tell Em About It! Your Senators want to know what you think about the Presidents Supreme Court reform plan. So does your Congressman. They have said so. They said they are waiting to hear from the people. DONT DISAPPOINT YOUR SENATORS AND CON- n strike until they ing a won from congress the modification of the Securities Act and. described as another example of the sit-dow- GRESSMAN. Write today and tell them in plain terms. Just address it Senator Blank or Congressman Doe, Washington, D. C. A postal will do the trick. DONT FORGET TO MAIL IT AFTER WRITING. law the South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at Utah. 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Telephone Was. 2981. Judicial Stop 24 South Publisher I THOMSON L M. THOMPSON M. Office Manager nation-wid- e against statute refusal of the officials of utility holding companies to register their companies un- der the terms of the Utility Holding Act. (Continued on page 6) Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 24 strike sit-do- Dictatorship the United States in their conspiracy to violate the laws passed by congress to regulate utility holding LABORS NON- PARTISAN LEAGUE companies. Sensing the alarm of senators League n over the prevalence of in office St. has opened a regional Paul. Rapidly growing interest by strikes by the workers in various farm organizations in the supreme parts of the country. Mr. Pecora court reform and other League told the committee that it should (Continued from Page 1) strikes ' These amend- proposals is said to be the reason. never forget the 'anthtongressmen have begun to think of amendments. in defiance and of law labor is that reason originated in ments, so recently thought up, are either political alibis to cloak their Another the seats finance beof a better polisee that farm lofty high opposition to the Presidents proposal or these senators and congress- tical groups fore the was is copjudgneeded, technique merely 10 organization years. men have been asleep at the hwitch for the last ied men women. senators and certain by the working way this to reach by ing Constitution probThose who advocate amending the From his experience as counsel lem know that it cannot be done without years of delay. Over 10 years from Montana, North Dakota, Iowa the senate banking and curren- for the are and Nebraska disregarding ago the supreme court held unconstitutional legislation aimed to stop wishes the of A constitutional people. traffic in the product of the labor of little children. amendment was introduced to reach this situation. Yet 10 years later Demand $1,000 the fight for that amendment is still going on. NOTICE! Labors Non-Partis- an sit-dow- SUPREME COURT sit-do- Judicial Dictatorship Stop of the in strong popular feeling against prohibition, spite Again, and it took 10 years of agitation to secure an amendment to the Constitution repealing it. So it is not surprising that we find opponents to the Presidents program piously talking about amending the Constitution. These opponents urge amendment because it sounds plausible yet will accomplihh nothing. But the strongest reason in support of dealing with this problem directly by law rather than by amending the Constitution is that by amending the Constitution v?e will not reach the real problem that needs to be dealt with. The basic problem is not one of amending the Constitution. That great document is as sound today as when it was first adopted. In the future, as in the past, time may prove that in' some few particulars amendments may be necessary. But the framework and broad principles laid down by the Constitution of the United States are just as sound today as when they were adopted 148 years ago. Judicial Dictatorship Stop The principal difficulty blocking progress of the people of this country is not our great Constitution. It is a majority of the justices of the supreme court of the United States. Of course the President's proposal will affect the decisions of the supreme court. Tt is intended to do exactly that. The point of view of some of the supreme court justices and the decisions resulting from of five that point of view are in crying need of change. The men blocking the progress of 130,000,000 people by twisting and dispretorting the plain terms of the Constitution to accord with judices is a situation that needs correction. And this situation cannot be corrected by amending the Constitution. It must be corrected by appointing new justices. In view of the concrete situation on the supreme court of the United States today, we would favor President Roosevelts proposal regardless of who might be President. We would be sure that on the average new judges, coming fresh from the problems of today, would be more likely to reach sound conclusions than men who have been long removed from active participation and whose ideas were formed during a past generation. There are exceptional people whose thinking and knowledge of conditions always remain fresh. But they are the excentions. In most cases a conservative of today will have better understanding of present needs than a liberal of yesterday. We are willing yes, anxious to see, an infusion of new blood to the supreme court, believing it will correct a substantial part of our present judicial difficulties. Judicial Stop Dictatorship We are doubly for President Roosevelts proposal because we are confident that he will appoint men to the supreme court who will compel that tribunal itself to obey the Constitution. Let there be no misunderstanding. In far too many cases w hen the supreme court of the United States declares a law unconstitutional it is not a question of law at all. It is a question of opinion. And of late there have been occasions when it was a case of prejudice. Let us remember that there is not a single sentence in the Constitution itself which gives the supreme court the right to declare any law unconstitutional. The court exercises this great power even though the framers of the Constitution on four separate occasions refused by overwhelming vote to give it to them. The court, timidly at first, more boldly later on, began to claim and assert this power. Inch by inch and foot by foot a majority of the court have added to this second rule. Time after time laws were declared unconstitutional where there was only a reasonable doubt but where some of the best minds m the country were convinced they were valid. So the powerlegal of the supreme court was finally stretched to the point where five men on that court-appo- inted for life could for all practical purposes veto laws just because they did not approve of them. Judicial Stop Dictatorship well-organiz- well-financ- ed ed spec-tabl- e out-wo- rn Frank Gannett, a chain-newspap- er Just received a large magnate and Associated Press director, who stirred up what he called a tumult against supreme court reform among the ermine robes and boiled shirts of his acquaintance, is now passing the handtin cup for thousand-dollouts to his committss. Frank is perfectly frank about it. Chicken-fee- d like dollar and five dollar contributions wont make the grade, he says. So hes asking the lawyers to raise the wind in real money not out of their own pockets but, as lawyers know how to do, out o:: their clients pockets. Frank frankNo one can explain as a ly says: lawyer to clients in business and in the professions what this fight means, and he tells the lawyers to chisel such amounts as $25, $50, $100, $250, $500, and up to $1,000. As Senator La Follette told the League convention in Washington: The lawyers who live off their Liberty League clients have come flying to the defense of their mea tickets. ment of UNION Clothing . . . ship- MADE ROSENBLUMS 59 East 2nd South 7 ar BEST WISHES, LABOR STOVALLS SELLS FOR LESS 248 South State "" Salt Lake City, Utah COMPLIMENTS OF Standard Oil Company Wants to Hear The Senate judiciary committee was told by President Green of the A. F. of L at its hearing: I think the plan submitted by the President is the most practical plan suggested at the present time. The committee is hearing other witnesses and is receiving a good deal mail and telegrams of cooked-u- p from the reactionaries. Be sure to write your senators and congressmen how real people are feeling about supreme court of California i Continental Bank Building Phone Wasatch 949 Best Wishes to Utah Labor Lewis Telle Cannon John Fetzer Jas. L. 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