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Show V UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. JUNE 25. 1937. 8 For the whole year which ended November 30, 1936, $26,-- f NEWS AND COMMENT 000,000 worth of war tools were sent abroad. Munitions ex ports have therefore nearly doubled in the last six months. No one will be surprised to learn that. With bombs bursting all over Spain and a world armament race in full swing, it is to be expected that American business would get its cut. But thats no sign the situation is either healthy or wise. Happy Memories The United States has . declared in two specific, ways that Havent you ever met an old . it will not support war. It is one of the 63 signers of the Paris I friend, whom you had not seen in Pact, which makes war illegal. Our neutrality law declares we I years you met him, and didnt he memories of by will not ship arms to nations at war. If we are not going to support war, why should we support gThig happens to me occasionally, preparation for war? Why should we equip nations for mass The other day I met A. W. Bow murder right up'until the day a war starts? There is no reason man of Moorhead, Minnesota. for it unless we are willing to O. K. the sale of death for human Meeting him brought happy memories of a week spent in Fargo, beings, which is what armament shipments amount to. North Dakota, jut across the Red Agitation is brewing in congress for putting the screws on River of the North from Moorsuch exports. Senator Nye and Representative Fish have al- head, 14 years ago. E. G. Hall, then president ready introduced a bill to accomplish this. It ought to be pass- of With the Minnesota State Federation ed at this session. Every day of delay adds new might made of Labor, of Minneapolis, we were in America to the gods of war. speakers at the convention of the North Dakota State Federation of DDTORIAL Continued from page 7) i.i endeavoring to pack it. The word pack is also a word most familiar to him. He employed it and carried it into exe- cution frequently during his administration. He packed the sweatshops with children. Packed the warehouses with wool. Packed the granaries with corn and ' wheat. Packed the jails with prohibition violators. Packed the poorhouses with the aged and decrepit. And now he would pack the coffers of the greedy with the meager earnings of the poor. The foregoing are a few more intervening brush piles that ought to be reduced or eliminated in order to clear the landscape and improve the vision of a few people who are now looking at this question from a distorted perspective. The ugly charge is made constantly that President Roosevelt has taken over the legislative branch of the government and that now he seeks to take over the judicial as well. The majority of the present congress was elected on the PART OF A GREATER WHOLE New Deal platform. They are pledged to support the Presidents program. The members of congress are responsible to In every community in Utah, there are one or more Christian the people who elected them. If they do not redeem their churches. the They help to hold standards high and are centers of fellow pledges to the people who elected them then it is up to peo hon-who and send their in others are take to to ship inspiration. However, we sometimes forget that they are parts places pie congress, of the and reliable their est enough ears to greater wholes. These wholes or denominations have considerable enough to keep ground I influence in moulding national and world affairs. For instance, note and listen to the wishes of the people back home. America is at the cross roads. The issue is Human Rights I the following which we quote with permission: I Versus Property Rights. In Philadelphia, the Northern Baptist convention brought to a y We are supporting the President and those senators and close a gathering which was especially notable for the I tention it paid to militarism and the economic system. who are backing the humanitarian program of the In no I tain terms, ministers and laymen from 36 states went on record as fav Where do you stand on this important issue? oring the underdog and opposing war. i 1 Mr. Labor, meeting in Fargo. Bowman was chairman of the entertainment committee and, what an entertainment it was. Nothing was lacking. I shall always have fond memories of that pleasant week in Fargo, and remember those good fellows I met there. Bowman is a printer, a member of Fargo Typographical union, and is employed on the Fargo Forum, leading daily newspaper in North Dakota. Bowman, accompanied by Mrs. Bowman, came to Salt Lake City to witness the marriage of Miss Virginia Wells, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Wells, 217 During the sessions, which were attended by thousands, the con- - Third avenue, and their son, Clifvctio did the following: ford A. Bowman of Chicago, which BOSSES WIIO BARGAIN ALONE Approved a report attacking compulsory military training in took place at 8 p. m. Saturday at schools and criticizing Ohio University for ousting a freshman who the home of the brides cousin, Miss Nanna C. Clark, 183 Third It takes two to make a bargain. When one party says He j conscientiously objected to it. avenue. Justice William H. Fol-lanwill talk about a bargain but never complete one, that is not! Passed a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment pro- an uncle of the bride, per- I I bargaming. that viding Congress shall no longer have the power to declare any formed the ceremony. When the National Labor Relations Act was passed, its wars until authorized by a vote of the people in national referendum. Clifford, son of a mighty good barHeard one report urging the Christian church to Fight for in- - ftther arri,ed a fiae purpose was declared to be to protect the right of collective , May I who" I a more equitable economic order . . . and memories to those r participat to bargain collectively with the representatives of their em-- 1 adopted another declaring that minimum ruse wages be fixed for Jed in the event. living I Ply- every worker and that large income be limited, The steel companies whose workers are now on strike are Heard a report recommending that the Northern and Southern breaking this law by refusing to enter into collective-bargainin- g Baptist convention work together toward racial understanding and that Steel the toward with a white and negro pastors exchange pulpits to promote better racial negotiations looking signed agreement Iations. Organizing Committee. We cannot consistently champion the cause of oppressed mi- (Continued from page 4) Spccific charges to this effect have been filed with the Na- - Jnorities elsewhere until we first set our own house in order, the report are not for sale in the political tional Labor Relations Board against the Inland Steel Co. by said market. However, I am afraid hard Regional Director Van A. Bittner of the S. W. O. C. facts belie my hopes. I was in the In reply to a S. W. O. C. request for a conference to prove gallery when the house, sitting as ALWAYS ROOM ON THE FARM it represented a majority of Inland SteeT employes, the com-- l a committee of the whole, where roll-ca- ll no votes are possible, votpany, according to Bittner, professed to be willing to meet for one ed to three for the vicious earThe young men and women of our graduating classes now going the purpose of collective bargaining, but stated that it did not) looked as if the whole It marking. ut to sell themselves in the wide, wide world are expected to be relief program was doomed. Then, propose to make a signed contract with the S. W. O. C. Since the purpose of collective bargaining can only be ajmre successful than those graduated during the past five or six years. canny old Rayburn of Texas We are assured of this not only by commencement day speakers I jested that they had better post agreement covering wages, hours and working condi-- 1 pone final action and cool off. tions, the reply of the Inland Steel Co. is manifestly in bad hut by economists and industrial leaders as well, Over the week-en- d conferences J faith, the steel union leader comments. However, for the good of the country, it is to be hoped that not were held and members stated on Discussions and conferences that do not look to an agree- - aH the available jobs will be filled by this years graduates, the floor that Roosvelt had promised them that as much, or more, women-anment are not collective bargaining. They are but a shadow, Thousands of young men of the lost generation who than proposed earmarked sums, not the substance of the rights of American workers under the have gone into PWA, CCC and other forms of provided activity wouldthe be spent for roads, flood conlaw. Refusal to accord the steel workers their legal right to should be, if they have not been already, given opportunities to get trol, and PWA. The only difference I can see is that Harry Hopgenuine collective bargaining has driven them on strike. A into normal ways of earning a livlihood. kins has J been of corn-can committed nominally controls the spendthose of this Many wrong against the American people which years high school classes in the smaller ing. only be righted when the Inland and other Steel companies j munities will probably fit happily into farm life. Two carefree sev-ar- e Would Fight Back compelled to obey in good faith both the letter and spirit enteen-year-olpitching quoits the other day reminded us that forty There are approximately 28,000 of the law. years ago the majority of young men in country villages expected to relief department employes in sube happy in the country. Only now and then did one seek fame and pervisory postions, not taken from relief rolls. If the plans of the fortune in the city. pork-barrDEATH FOR SALE bloc should prevail, 12,000 to 14,000 of them must be If I were running discharged. WHEN HARD UP YOURE IRRITABLE Uncle Sam is this year doing twice as much business in the this Administration I should take the Congressional Record and go weapons of war a? last. Figures just released by the State Devotes. I In diagnosing a considerable number of last years divorce cases right down those roll-ca- ll partment show that during the six months which ended June 1, do the relief cutting in the should 1937, exports of American munitions totalled $24,492,152. a man making a lobby of that sort of thing plucked out a fact that districts of the members of the was more than a coincidence. In far too many cases debt had been pork-barrbloc, and I should gentthe basic cause of the raw-re- d but of ly the concerned. firmly remove every relief irritability parties that any employe If America goes on spending huge sums for armaments paying the department pork-barrmember of bloc had the bill is going to become irritating. Being irritated well look around for on the pay rolls. I should placed someone who made us do it who is to blame. Sufficient plans for also make it plain to every person quick defense that can get results? Yes. But let us remember that who has refused relief, or who lost our position makes it impossible for an invader to take us over before his job exactly why, and who Is remuch could be done. First, of course, there must be someone who sponsible. I would stop truckling to ooliticians and fight back like would like to. Accepted for Hell. In the next few years let us remember that debts make for irCatty!!! vou cry. Yes, I know it is. But I would rather be a ritability, especially when the folks cant see interesting things about wild-cfighting for my own than to partly oil the irritation. a weak-knee- d political huckster. I Battleships and tanks and such are soon scrapped. Overhead have grown old, and perhaps tough, crossings, schools, hospitals, irrigation and flood control provisions fighting the battles of the underprivileged, and I am just aching for this session of congress to adjourn so that I can get back to California and set half a million votWHOLESOME PUBLICITY ing women to making the fur fly from the corrupt, reactionary old The fact that Warner Baxter and William Powell stood by Jean politicians who have made ' Federin Harlow in her last illness will do a lot more for the film folks by way al relief a stinking pork-barrof favorable publicity than a million dollars worth of prepared copy. mv state. How about your state? I 1 six-da- uncer-Preside- nt. d, .irl .' ers J sug-sign- d ds el el Prosperity Bonds el at UTAH LABOR NEWS SUBSCRIPTIONS AND ADVERTISING & el ed |