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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, MAY 28, 1937. PRESSURE GROUPS By KATE RICHARDS 0IIARE management Intelligent WASHINGTON The most frequently heard and revealing term on Capitol .Hill is pressure group," Simple words that can be pronounced in only one way, but like the Chinese language, changes meaning with shades of intonation. When an old gray wolfe says it, it means that they are dangerous enemies, to whom no quarter can be given, and who must be exterminated regardless of constitutional guarantees of free speech, free press and free assembly. The gently, regretful inflection of the old smoothie who holds his seat in congress by being all things to all men, and by never going on record on a vital issue, prying, says that they are naughty children who should be soundly spanked and sent home ill-bre- d, Utahs Finest Flavored Food Products Are Packed Under Bluo Pine Label where they belong The fretful editor hints that they are irresponsible, communistic pests, and the bewildered progressive speaks of them in a tone of wistful hopefulness as if they were something that should help the masses become articulate, but fail pathetically in realizing their possibilities. One Soon Learns One soon learns here in Washington that when the economic royalists" send their lavishly financed advisors swooping down on congress with well filled little black bags, or their equivalent, to protect our sacred institutions these noble, refined activities are pure, unadulterated patriotism. They have nothing to do with pressure groups, far from it. Like Caesar's wife, they are above suspicion. Only the cynic or the base, souled radical would suggest that they ever indulge in anything so crude as pressure, or so vulgar as propaganda. Certainly notl They are the 1937 model of the noble public spirited Dollar a Year Men who so efficiently managed the business affairs of the World war. And, of course their motives are pure and unsullied by greed for gain. Advising those who sit in the seats of the mighty in government, is, next to prostitution, perhaps the oldest of professions. It should never be confused with such disreputable things as lobbyists and pressure groups. It is only the few, shabby, spokesmen for the producers, the farmd that ers, the of our population, whom President Roosevelt says are indecently clothed and improperly housed who are lobbyists, who represent subversive pressure groups. They are grubby pests who get in the congressmens hair because they are naive enough to come to Washing-- ( Continued on Page 6) self-sacrifici- share-croppe- rs one-thir- under-n- ourished, Scowcroft Blue Pine Tomato Juice appetizing, healthful, delicious! Fresh, full bodied juice from the finest tomatoes. LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH were: (1) Principles of , Coopera tion; (2) Business Organization and Management of Cooperatives; (3) Accounting for Cooperatives; (4) Problems in Cooperative En deavor. Minnesota, too, offers manage ment training for cooperators. A weeks school for cooperative man agers was sponsored at the close of last year by the University of Minnesota and the Midland Cooperative Wholesale. Many of the 80 students were managers and prospective managers of gas and oil cooperatives in that State. Instructors were drawn from the regular teaching staff of the university and from technical and educational staffs of the cooperative wholesale. Courses dealt with technical problems of oil distribution, as well as general economics and the history and philosophy of the consumers cooperative movement. Score up another bond between farm and city cooperation in the favorable vote by the members of the Farmers Union Central Exchange, Minnesota, to extend membership in their wnolesale association to a city consumer cooperative. Reversing the Farmers Union traditional stand, the Central Exchange joins with other farm in recognizing mutual aims of city and farm cooperatives. More than a year ago the Ohio Farm Bureau Cooperative association voted not only to serve city cooperatives but to assist in organization of urban consumers. Next came the Farm Bureau Mutual Auto Insurance company of Columbus, Ohio, which extended its service in cooperative insurance to city consumers. Pennsylvanias Farm Bureau Federation likewise serves and helps in the organizaand is support tion of city the in bill a Pennsylvania leging islature which will permit urban consumers to incorporate for coop Consumers' Cooperative eration. Association of North Kansas City, Mo., organized in 1928 to serve rural oil cooperatives, has broadened its scope to include city coopMidland Cooperative eratives. Wholesale, Minneapolis, also serves urban consumers organizations. . From its headquarters and compounding plant in St. Paul, the Farmers Union Central Exchange ns co-o- Blue Pine Finest Green Beans uniform in size, color, and therefore economical. ed chase of 6500 tank cars from the refinery; (2) control of quality and production methods under supervision of an auditor and chemist to be maintained at the plant by the cooperatives; and (3) division serves more than 230 local con of profits between the refinery and Burners cooperatives in Montana, cooperative wholeNorth and South Dakota. Business participating sales at the end of each year of in 1935 totaled over $4, 000,090. operation. Furnishing an assured Early reports showed a decided in- market, the cooperatives expect crease in volume for 1930. savings in production to be possible in which they will share. A business built entirely out of earnings is the record of the MidThe worlds largest retail gas land Cooperative Wholesale at Min and oil cooperative" is claimed by neapolis. Started 10 years ago the Consumers Oil Co., of Greeley, with no capital and no subscribed Colo. To bolster its claim it points stock, Midland has become big to sales of gasoline in 193G which business. Its sales in 193G exceed- amounted to almost 2,000,000 galed $3,000,000 23 per cent more lons. Savings to its 1900 members than the year before. Today it is on that business totaled $111,644. owned and serves 1G3 retail coop dividends distributed to eratives in Minnesota and Wiscon Patronage members over the 15 years of the sin. Trading first in petroleum existence of this p are reportproducts, it has expanded its line ed to be $8G4,619. to include a dozen other commodities, including paint and radios. . . BEST WISHES TO LABOR Midland cooperators credit educa tion with much of its success. Circuit cooperative schools were held Two last year in 23 localities. k held were youth camps at Chetek and Waupaca, Wis. A Retail Cash and Carry special cooperative institute met in Stations: and llamline University in June, Grand advanced institute at an 4th So. & 5th East View College, Des Moines, Iowa, Texaco Station in May, with Midland as joint 17th So. & 11th East Conoco Station Latest developments in Mid9th East below 13th South with lands business is a tie-u- p Henrys Market three other cooperative wholesale associations in the Midwest to pool POLAR ICE orders for petroleum products and "INSTANT SERVICE" take the entire output of an oil reUn1937. in Oklahoma in Wholesale Delivery, Only finery der terms negotiated with the re1321 South State finer, more than one hundred Phone Ilyland 3936 trainloads of these products will be shipped to the cooperatives. Their contract calls for (1) pur co-o- For one-wee- i co. 60-c- ar 7 SHARE IN THE PROFITS We Welcome You as a Customer or a Member YOU UTAH CONSUMERS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION FRESII MEATS GROCERIES 860 South Main JUST PHONE FRUITS WE DELIVER- VEGETABLES Wasatch 4864 - ps (Continued from page 2) ;he hatchet gang of the Weirton Employes Security League, a company union, were also turned over ;o the N.L.R.B. with the charge that the attacks were evidently following the return from Bermuda to this city of Chairman E. T. Weir, of the Board of Directors." The men who were discharged, claimed that they were dismissed because they openly refused to vote in company union elections or to join the Employes Security League." The charge al- basic industries would no longer leged that the Security League is be opposed could end the spliL company-inspire- d and Labor, under new inspiration, is on the march and going forpre-arrang- Scowerofts spells success in cooperative enterprise, as in any other, claim cooperators. In response to cooperative demand for drilling in business principles, Kansas State College has develop ed a training course in con sumers cooperative management. First session was during December and January last. Courses offered 3 . Best Wishes to Labor Milling Company Kaysville-Layto- n Kaysville, Utah so-call- ed Blue Pine Catsup, made from whole, garden fresh selected tomatoes blended savory spices. Scowerofts with-Scowcroft- s ATLANTIC CITY (UNS) Delegates to the convention of the International Ladies Garment Workers union gave John L. Lewis, C. I. 0. chairman, a rousing welcome when he spoke before them on the question of peace with the American Federation of Labor, the most important issue to come up in the closing days of the meeting. Emphasizing that it was not the C. I. 0. which declared war, but the A. F. of L., when it suspended ten industrial unions. Lewis said that nothing had happened to indicate that the Federation had changed its policy, and that therefore peace was impossible. Only a public state-mefrom the A. F. of L. that the program of industrial unionism in nt Scowerofts Blue Pine Tomatoes. Firm, lusciously red, and packed clear to the brim! Lewis said. ward, GARMENT WORKERS GIVE LEWIS AN OVATION I have no de- sire to interrupt that march or to bring further confusion into the ranks of labor by stopping the work of organization and attempting again to iron out our difficulties with the A. F. of L. American Labor Backs C. I. O. Lewis called attention to the fact that in spite of the split a million and a quarter new members had joined C. I. 0. unions and said that it did not seem as though American labor regarded the break from the A. F. of L. as such a bad thing. He summarized the gains made by the' industrial unions in basic industries and reviewed the steps he and other C. I. O. leaders had taken to win over the A. F. of L. to industrial unionism. William Green, A. F. of L. presi (Continued in page 4) Wasatch Springs Plunge Highway No. 91 INSPECT THE WHITE TILE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE POOLS Inspect the cleanly, sanitary conditions of the dressing lockers, the showers, the steam baths, rest rooms, etc., then take a rewarm mineral springs water, freshing swim in the health-givin- g then a dip in the outside fresh water pool and enjoy the white sand beach. Play tennis; relax on the beautiful lawns surrounded by fragrant flowers and shrubbery. 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