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Show '.MY JReview ofi or wtjs Evento Cunrreimt JUL I 1937 HforiHrlFER EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL VII; NO. 50. Price: 5 Cents Per Copy SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, JUNE EUTOKOAiJ News and Comment Judicial Stop Dictatorship By M. I. T. PRESIDENTS COURT REFORM IS FOR TIIE AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN President Roosevelt believes in laws for the protection of human beings. It is because he believes in legislation that will protect American men, women, and children, that the President has asked the congress to pass a law providing for a reform of the federal courts. It is the past experience of all those who believe in humanity that the courts have nullified important legislation passed by congress that would have had the tendency to make the lot of the average citizen better. Something Doing The social objectives of the Roosevelt administration are twofold the conservation of natural resources and, above all, the conservation of human beings. There is nothing new in that. In broad sense, these objectives form the ultimate goal of every government worthy of the name and to a considerable extent of every other organization which has for its purpose the betterment of mankind. The only new element is the fact that President Roosevelt insists we must do something about obtaining these objectives. He insists that now is the time to uproot old evils, to correct the errors of the past to lay the foundation for a better way of living and a more equitable distribution of human justice. President Roosevelt has no patience for the philosophy of drift He lays down the and simple proposition that if we believe what we advocate, then the only course open is to strive with all our might to make it a reality. Empty Formula Of course, there are some people, together with some congressmen, who dissent vigorously from the proposition that the government must attempt anything at all which has to do with the social aims of mankind. They look upon government as a policeman whose (Continued on Page 2) do-nothi- President Charles P. Howard of the International Typographical union, who is also secretary of the Committee for Industrial Organization, in June issue of the Typographical Journal, official magazine of the I. T. U.t reports and nacomments on the hand-picke- d L. F. conference of the A. tional of in Cincinnati last month. Of Mr. Howard notes that, course, the real purpose of the meeting was to find out if something can be done to stop the organization campaign of the C. I. O. The conference among other measures recommended to the A F. of L. executive council that al local unions chartered by nations and international unions holding membership in the Committee for Industrial Organization be disso ciated from membership in state federations of labor and city cen tral bodies directly chartered by the American Federation of La . bor. OLD-AG- E PENSIONS e We believe in adequate pensions for our elderly citizens who have served their country in peace or war during the period of their natural working lives. They should not be allowed to spend their last days in poverty and misery, dependent upon public or private charity or their relatives. We do not think in terms of miserably small pensions of $ 5, $30 or $45 a month. We believe in amounts adequate to maintain a home and pleasant surroundings in keeping with the highest American standards of living. We do not give a rap how this money is raised to pay sufficient amounts. If it is necessary to have a transaction tax to get this worthy object accomplished, then, lets have it. But, we do believe the security for the aged is a national rather than a state or local problem. It cannot be solved by a miscellany of conflicting state laws, imposing unequal burdens of taxation, and subject to continued changes, but can be adequately solved only by a uniform basic law, national in scope, which will insure to the aged citizens of each state equal protection with those in every state. A national law providing for adequate pensions would result in following benefits: ( ) Provide employment for millions of persons now idle by increasing production and withdrawing large numbers of el- old-ag- 1 1 Regarding this action of the A F. of L., Mr. Howard said: ( Continued on page 8) Now, who forced the issue anc insisted upon transferring the controversy between the C. I. 0. anc the A. F. of L. to the local field? Local central bodies and state federations were advised by the C. I 0. to ignore orders to unseat delegates representing unions supporting the C. I. 0. Appeals were made to the executive council of the A of Employables Now Out of Work Is the ObF. of L. to permit local centra Bill Provides For Increase In National InThe a bodies to continue to function as jective unit. This policy would have made come By Means of Increased Production A Cooperative division among local unions unProgram. necessary. As the whole situation was created by an illegal action of Special to the Utah Labor News .. the executive council in, suspending WASHINGTON international unions when it hac of the 10 million em(Continued on Page 8) ployables now out of work is the objective of the Industrial Expansion Act introduced in congress (H. R. 7332) by ConGENERALS WHOSE gressmen R. G. Allen, Democrat of Pennsylvania; T. R. Amlie, Industrial Expansion Act Introduced in Congress VIGILANTES, FORCE, AND CIVIL WAR Dy KATE ADEQUATE 0. Means Unity C. I. RICHARDS OHARE ent WASHINGTON Some of my readers suggested that was indulging in feminine dramatics in stressing the menace o reactionary pressure groups. Here is the latest example o such reactionary pressure.. What is your opinion? . Last week an elaborately printed sheet, bearing the signa ture of Major Frank Pease, 320 East 42nd Street, New York N. Y., who says he is speaking for the American Defenders,' .was received by the members of the house of representatives, presumed, by the Major, to have fascist tendencies, and I hap pened to secure a copy. The Major says that he has set up a very elaborate system for taking over the government, if anc His plan is worth study by complacent optimists. He when. . ARMY IS ON THE Progressive of Wisconsin; Maury Maverick, Democrat of Texas, and H. Jerry Voorhis, Democrat of California. OTHER SIDE The bill provides for an increase in the national income from 60 billion dollars a year, the present figure, to 00 billion By Len De Caux dollars a year, by means of increased production. Much puzzlement has been causThis increase will make it postake heed. The patience of millions ed among those who still believe of good citizens has apparently in statistics by a recent claim of sible to increase employment to reached the breaking point. Ef the A. F. of L. that it has increas- take care of all the employables forts to restrain are becoming ed its membership to close to three now out of work, reduce prices to 1 advertises that he will sell a copy of his plan for ten cents, and I suggest that the optimists would do well to squander a dime. Maybe the dime is all that the Major The grape-vin- e is interested in, but it is worth the more difficult. a of know sort to of what rising temper, brings reports price for you stuff is pouring into your nations Incidentally, I wonder capitol. what Jim Farley is doing, that the circulation of such stuff through the U. S. mails is permitted. Make Threats On May 18th, an open letter addressed to the President, members of the cabinet, and members of congress arrived, also through the mails. It is mimeographed and purposely made to appear somewhat illiterate. It is headed The Vigilantes and Affiliated Organizations, but neither any persons name nor address is given. Here are a few of its gems: Those of you who march with the spirit of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson will not need the admonition this letter conveys, but those who dispoil the traditions of a democracy, may well vice-preside- nt, million, even without the 10 C.I.O. unions which it suspended. What may or may not happen deIt is well known that nearly all pends entirely upon the course of the new organizing in the past year this Administration. has been done by the C.I.O., and You are the representatives of that A. F. of L. unions are transthe majority, but this choice die ferring their allegiance to it almost not delegate authority beyond the daily. established principles, and right It would be futile, however, to now many who comprised this ma- argue arithmetic with men whom jority, resent the implications of a William Green compares to archdictatorship. angels. So let us merely examine The Vigilantes and affiliated what their celestial computation organizations have a membership admittedly includes. in every state. This membership It includes the membership of is sufficiently strong to maintain the Brewery Workers union, mili-tant- State Senator and Editor of the Box Elder Daily Journal According to published reports there is still doubt about the federal government accepting Utahs social security program as passed at the last session of the legislature. That is what certain persons holding important positions in the state government would have the people believe. It is no secret that while the legislature was in session last winter these interested parties induced the federal government to send federal experts to Utah to assist in defeating Senate Bill No. 2 by Her tries engaged in com- inter-stat- e merce. Cooperation will be insured by the collection of a tax from whose unionist, ly by FORCE the traditions and principles of our American government . . . We are also interested in aror VIOresting any LENCE which MUST surely follow ANY attempt of the EXECU TIVE or CONGRESS to CHANGE these traditions and principles. It (Continued on page 4) DIS-ORDE- Propaganda Spreaders Tell Yarns About Stale Social Security Act By Will R. Holmes, consumers, and raise the wages of those now employed. Ten per cent of the increase will go to management in the form of profits. Needs of Consumers The increase is to be attained by means of a plan designed to reconcile the needs of the consumers with present productive capacity and the available labor supply. The plan will be drawn up by the "ndustrial Expansion administration, in conjunction with the industry authorities of the vital indus- bert B. Maw. Their purpose failed. The main object back of that movement was to kill Senator Maw politically because he had promised the aged people of this state an old age pension act. Experts Came The experts came and told us that the only , thing wrong with Senate Bill No. 2 was that it was called a pension measure; that if the word pension all through the bill was changed to read old age assistance it would be accepted by the federal government. That bill provides for $30 a month for the needy aged over 65 years. That (Continued on page 6) industrial official organ constantly advocates the program of the C.I.O. It includes the Boot & Shoe Workers union, a majority of whose members, some 14,000, have just voted in New York to join the United Shoe Workers of the C.I.O It includes the Inti. Fur Workers union, whose Chicago convention recently voted to swing its 30,000 members to the C.I.O. Typographical Union It includes the Inti. Typograph ical Union, whose president is secretary of the C.I.O with his unions full approval. It includes the Hatters, Cap & Vlillinery Workers and the American Newspaper Guild, both C.I.O. through their presidents and the wishes of their members. It includes the Inti. Longshoremens Assn., whose 20,000 members on the West Coast, headed by larry Bridges, voted full support ;o the C.I.O at their recent con- vention. , It includes the New York mem-)er- s of the Inti. Assn, of Machinists who have bolted the A. F. of to form the Transport Workers union of the C.I.O., also 15,000 more in 14 I.A.M. lodges through (Continued on Page 7) all producers, amounting to 25 per cent of the value they add to their product in processing. If the ducer cooperates with the pro- adminis-iratio- n, 95 per cent of the tax will returned to him. Also, the plan provides that the government will e Labor on Its Forward March; C. I. O. Is Active VARRO JONES NAMED C.I.O. ORGANIZER PRICE Varro Jones of Kenilworth has been appointed as C.I.O. organizer for the states of Utah and Colorado. The appointment was made by John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization. Mr. Jones has been prominent in trade union activities in Carbon county since the organization of the United Mine Workers in the Carbon county coal fields. It is expected that Mr. Jones will have his headquarters in Provo, where the steel workers were recently organized. He will work under Van A. Bittner, western gional director of the C. I. O. re- CARBON OIL WORKERS FORM C.I.O. UNION PRICE At a meeting in price last week a local union of the International Association of Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers of America, an affiliate of the C.I.O., was formed. The new union is composed of oil and gas station employes in Carbon county, county. Application, for a charter has been made, and officers will be elected as soon as the charter is (Continued on page 2) |