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Show Review ofi , , Current Evento v 7 4 'tnsziixr ox Mn I 0 THE PEOPLES EDUCATE ORGANIZE WOT COOPERATE VOL VII; NO. 48 ISJPK Stop Price: KLT LAKE CITY, UTAH. JUNE 4, 1937. Dictatorship By M. I. T. PEOPLE OF AMERICA HAVE ENDORSED PRESIDENTS COURT PJ J The deep feeling that has been stirred with respect Presidents request that congress authorize, under certain conditions, an increase in the membership of the supreme court shows that we are still alive to the welfare of our beloved country. Some reactionary senators, who apparently do not give a rap about the wishes of the people, contend that the plan should not be adopted unless previously sanctioned by a constitutional amendment; others that if an act of congress shall provide for the enlargement it will be the opening wedge to the destruction of our form of government. Of this there should not be the slightest fear, for this unconstitutiongovernment was not born to die, court, in declaring of al acts certain expresscongress in to on hearts live on the and but ing Presidential policies, was out of a great free people. of touch with the march of events People Support President and the massesof our people as the The Constitution, from its adopt- election of the Democratic candiion, has provided for a supreme date was sure to demonstrate. court, but left the number of justices of which it shall be composed to congress. Why, then, consume time in testing a question which is clearly within the power of congress, and upon which a vote in reality already has been taken? Everyone knew what the Presidents policies were during the last November campaign. They were discussed, extolled, and applauded, ridiculed and derided from one end of the country to the other. On the other hand, we were told the The people were assured on the Reform Not Enough Medical science is today working on disease prevention as much as on curative measures. Agricultural science is busying itself with plans to. prevent destruction of crops by insects and disease. Flood prevention as well as flood control is being studied. The resignation of Sanford Bates this year as director of Federal prisons to head the Boys Clubs of America is very significant. It signifies that this man, with tremendous knowledge of what can be done to curb crime by cur- ing criminals, realizes that more can and should be done on the prevention end. Prison reform gets there after a life has been wrecked. Boys clubs and similar institutions help prevent the catastrophe. Mr. Bates interest in boys clubs of which there are 290 serving 255,000 boys in 153 cities, reminds us again that we are living in an age when don't do this and dont do that are inadequate. Positive programs filling the mind with good to leave little or no room for the bad, may get us somewhere. other hand, that the court, in claring the acts referred to unconstitutional, had saved the country from wreck and ruin; that if reelected the President would feel that his policies had been endorsed, and that he would then find some way, under the dictatorship he was Blood Will Tell charged with attempting to set up, to put his policies in force despite Twenty years ago the above saythe rulings of the court; that the ing Avas heard more than today. Of only thing, therefore, for the course in racing circles they are still making a great deal of the (Continued on Page 2) fact that such a colt was sired by such and such a stallion. However, they dont lean so much on his her-idias to neglect proper feeding and plenty of training. The American Eugenics society has more of late been putting its emphasis on proper housing, feedCouncils Are Central Being ing and training in its policies for Local C.vT.0. State Councils And theIn deve?opaentnf priz winning Union Membership Formed All Over the Country humans. Salt Lake Typographical Union Has Utah Is Growing (Continued on Page 8) de- Labor on Its Forward March; C. I. O. Is Active ty -- Begun an Active Membership Drive Many New Unions Join C. I. O. Fordism Ignored As Auto Union Enrolls Ford Workers Technicians Start Union Office Workers Withdraw From A. F. of L Organization activities are marching forward at double time this week all over the nation. Because of the ouster tactics of the A. F. of L., which is proceeding on its customary path of violating convention mandates and constitutional provisions, the Committee for Industrial Organization affiliates are now busy organizing their own state councils and city central councils. Thus Bill Greens view of unity is carried out. To oust is to unite. The C. I. O. headquarters in Washington, D. C., announce a larger membership than the A. F. of L and now the real job of organizing is just starting. A hurry-u- p shipment of 10,000 C. I. O. membership buttons is en route to Salt Lake City this week for distribution among local unions in Utah that are affiliated with the C. I. O. buttons Additional membership will follow later to supply all the formation of the state council, lomembers of the fastest growing or- cal central councils vdll be organ, ganization in America the C. I. O. State Council Arrangements are all completed to form a state couftcil of C. I. 0. affiliates in Utah within a few ized in several Utah cities and counties. The C. I. O. leaders in Utah said this week that we are just starting to organize wait and sec our from days. It will be composed of local membership two months unions throughout the state repre- now. Applicants from a score of senting a membership of more than the (Continued on page 2) 20,000 workers. Following Spanish Fascist Spy Ring Uncovered in United States Special to the Utah Labor News NEW YORK An espionage ring in the service of General Franco's fascist junta in Spain is operating in the United States through two former Spanish diplomats, a former ambassadorfrom the United States to Spain, and other lesser lights, accordweek. ing to documents and other information revealed here last Gerald On the basis of the information produced. Senator P. Nye, in the senate, and Representatives John T. Bernard and Jerry OConnell, in the house, have demanded a congressional investigation into Spanish fascist friendly relations. Information Uncovered Repreactivities in this country. uncovered thus far Information sentatives Bernard and OConnell includes the following facts were joined by 27 colleagues fora 1. Chief actors of the espionage sweeping inquiry into the opera- ring: Juan Francisco de Carde to the tions f spies working against a nas, Spanish ambassador 1931-193Jose which from United States with legitimate government maintains (Continued on Page 6) the United States 4; Per Copy mORIAL! News and Comment Judicial 5 Cents - Political Outlook In Utah and U. S. Compiled From Reports of Observers America At the Cross Roads Congress is confronted this session with more perplexing problems than it has faced since 1860. Never has it been more important that the folks back home should know what their congressman is doing, and that they should tell him what they want done. So many of the big newspapers are controlled by pressure groups," which are using every means at their command to block constructive action by congress. The ordinary man can-hi- s not keep a correspondent in Washington to inform him fully about what is going on, and the papers which do keep a correspondent at the nations capital do not print what the ordinary man needs to know. The Utah Labor News has secured a correspondent in Washington who will write without mincing of words weekly letters concerning the probable effects of proposed legislation, and giving the congressmens stand on bills of national import. One of these letters appears in this issue under caption Sit-Do- The correspondent is Kate Richards Strike Jitters. O'Hare, nationally known writer, teacher and economsit. She knows the problems of the workers and farmers and small business men. She knows her Washington and watches the actions of senators and representatives. Do not miss any of these special and interesting articles by our able and fearless Washington correspondent, appearing in the Utah Labor News each week. The author of the Washington said, in substance, that individually the liberals and progressives in congress are far superior to the reactionaries and conservatives, but as a group they are totally ineffectual and important because they never consolidated their strength and formed a solid legislative bloc. The Utah Labor News observer, after spending three months in Washington, working in the House office building and being in constant "contact with members of congress, agrees with him and notes that some of the ablest men of this country, genuinely progressive and incorruptably honest are in congress. Each individual legislator is sincerely doing his best to serve his district, state, the country and its common people, but usually he is just a voice crying in the wilderness, because he tries to work alone. He has not learned the bitter lesson that no one can work alone in Washington; that congress is a jungle where only he who hunts with a pack can survive. This is particularly true of the new members who have been tossed into the jungle by the upsurge of social unrest that found expression in the Roosevelt social policies and the New Deal social experimentation. (Continued on Page 8) Merry-Go-Rou- Ask Embargo Despite the evidence of reliable reporters who have given eyewitness accounts of German and: Italian intervention on Spanish soil, the State Department of the United States, like the foreign office of Great Britain, fails to find confirmation of the claim that has been made again and again by the liberal bloc in the house of representatives in congress that the neutrality law applies to these coun- tries. Representatives Jerry OConnell of Montana, John M. Coffee of Washington, and John T. Bernard and Henry G. Teigan of Minnesota have sent a letter to Secretary Cordell Hull, in which they ask the embargo be imposed on Italy, Germany and other nations aiding the Franco junta. This is the second such action undertaken, in the house, the first being II. J. R. 240, introduced by Representative Bernard and signed by 17 other house members. The letter reads in part: We call upon the Secretary of State to recognize what is known to the world. Moreover, we believe that the State Department and the President of the United States should declare that Italy and Germany come within the embargo provisions now being enforced so unfairly against the Spanish government. The most spectacular evidence of Italian and German invasion has been given by Jay Allen, who reported the massacre of Spanish loyalists in the bullring at Bada-joand more recently the eyewitness account of the destruction of Guernica bv G. L. Steer. The latest news tells of a German airman who was shot down by the loyalists. He admitted that he took part in the raid in Guernica, and that he had been recruited on (Continued on Page 5) z, SIT-DOW- N nd STRIKE JITTERS By KATE RICHARDS OTIARE The most interesting stories whispered about on Capitol Hill are the ones that usually are not written. The reactionary press doesnt want them, and what is left of the radical press is much more concerned in smelling out heresies in the ranks than locating good, live newspaper stories. Here is the best one that I have heard. I have been waiting for weeks for a labor paper to break it. Nothing doing. So, I will do it myself for the Utah Labor News, for it dares to ' print the truth. I was in the house gallery when Martin Die3 of Texas was fulminn strike ating against the and fighting desperately for the passage of a bill to outlaw strikes. The amount of venom he displayed was rather shocking. Then I watched the reactions of the other members. If anyone has any doubt that the Democratic party has sharper and deeper lines of cleavage in its own ranks than has existed between it and the Republican party for half a century, that debate would have removed them. On the one side were the old grey wrnlves and the smug old smoothies fighting in sheer desperation with their backs against the wall, on the other the progressives, and sort of huddled about the edges the bewildered young mavericks, and I dont mean Maury, but the unbranded young congressmen. Baffles The heat and bitterness seemed out of all proportion to the fact that organized lator at last found a method of striking that got results. I said as much and a cyni sit-dow- sit-do- Sit-Do- cal old newspaper correspondent, is paid for the stories he buries as well as for the one he writes, led me into a corner and whispered the real story. I might add that one is always being led into a corner and whispered to when anything really important is brewing. Washington whispers real, vital things and brays and thunders the unimportant. The strike has the whole dynasty of economic royalists and their political servants baffled and panic stricken because it is the most terrific and astounding case of industrial despotism being hoisted on its own petard in history. He digged a pit, he digged it deep, He digged it for his brother. But for his sin he did fall in, The pit he digged for t'other. Costly Arsenals since the World war demEver onstrated the supreme efficiency of machine guns and poison gases the great industrial corporations have been accumulating ever more complete modem arsenals, and storing them inside the plants for use in labor troubles. The Nye munitions hearings uncovered all sorts of information showing that the munitions makers had built up a nice, tidy business in seling equipment for civil wars wnthin our boundaries when the trade slacked off in other parts of the world. Industrialists in my owm dear, sunnv California purchased from the Lake Erie Chemical company of Cleveland about $35;000 worth of poison gases: Illinois $21,000; (Continued rn page 4) who sit-do- mi vTau |